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Travel tech tip: buy WiFi access by the minute using Skype

Travellers can buy access to over a million Wi-Fi hotspots on a per-minute basis, rather than having to buy in hourly or daily blocks. Skype is marketing the service as "Skype Wi-Fi" (previously k...

POSTED ON 24/8/11 1 comment
Travel Tech: new wireless hard drive for iPads now available

UPDATE | This nifty piece of tech has gone on sale in Australia today, for $219 inc GST -- practically the same price as the US$199 price, which excludes sales tax. Australian Business Traveller ha...

POSTED ON 23/8/11 8 comments
REVIEWED: world's best MiFi - Telstra Ultimate pocket 3G/Wi-Fi hotspot

"World's best" isn't an accolade to be thrown around lightly, but we believe Telstra's new portable 3G/Wi-Fi hotspot is absolutely deserving of it. The Telstra Ultimate Portable Wi-Fi modem is the...

POSTED ON 28/6/11 0 comments
Why doesn't "free public WiFi" at the airport work?

Ever noticed that airports all over the world have hotspots called "free public WiFi" that simply never work? Unfortunately these hotspots are not real -- they are the result of a very poorly desi...

POSTED ON 28/6/11 3 comments
Battle of the MiFi: best value portable 3G Wi-Fi modems

If you're travelling in Australia and still paying for hotel internet, you're not only wasting your money – you're missing out on the convenience of having the internet on tap, anywhere and a...

POSTED ON 13/4/11 4 comments
China blocking Gmail and secure VPNs

Bad news for business travellers to China: reports are emerging that the Chinese government is more actively blocking virtual private network (VPN) services, which travellers use to get past China'...

POSTED ON 17/3/11 2 comments
Inflight internet to GoGo worldwide - including Australia

Popular US inflight internet service GoGo is set to go worldwide by 2015. GoGo parent company Aircell says the global version of the system will use a satellite link to planes, rather th...

POSTED ON 11/3/11 0 comments
Top 5 features of today's free iPhone 4 update for business travellers

Apple released its iOS 4.3 software update for the iPhone 4 today. It offers a surprising number of extra feature for business travellers at no additional cost. Here are the top five: #1 Personal ...

POSTED ON 10/3/11 0 comments
Wi-Fi makes aircraft cockpit monitors go blank: Boeing

Boeing has confirmed that Wi-Fi made cockpit displays go blank during testing of its latest 737-NG aircraft, a revamp of one of the most common planes in the sky. The story was uncovered by Flight...

POSTED ON 10/3/11 2 comments
iPhone 4 to get free Wi-Fi hotspot feature

Update | We've got step-by-step instructions on how to activate the free personal wifi hotspot on your iPhone or iPad – click here. Previous | Sick of hunting out public Wi-Fi hotspots ...

POSTED ON 3/3/11 0 comments