The commercial launch for PingWi-Fi.com was in November, a press conference hosted by San Francisco International Airport, but we have been up and running the blog for one year now.
How we doin?
Well, at the get-go, I said that I would consider the first year a success if we attended one and only one event … [...]

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Finally!
I have boarded many a plane since the introduction of Wi-Fi in the sky … but apparently I have been leaving and landing in the wrong cities — no Wi-Fi to be had.
Until Sunday, traveling from Winston-Salem … to Atlanta … to Dallas.
But first, have you ever been stuck on a plane next to a [...]

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There was a lull in the action at PingWi-Fi, so I slipped over to Dallas (actually Richardson) for some networking and a presentation on social media.
The speakers had HP and Dell Computers in their pedigrees, so I thought it was worth the petrol.
Man … I had not attended a Metroplex Technology Business Council meeting since [...]

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If Rat Packer Dean Martin can sing about it, then I can blog about it.
“Abilene, Abilene.”
On the first day of my first Wi-Fi blog, I watched my son throw a no-hitter for his high school baseball team. A great day of baseball proved to be the perfect beginning for a wonderful trip.

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Roadtrips just got a lot better.  Gone are the days when you may have used a bungee chord to tie down a small TV and a DVD player on a beer cooler in the back of the family truckster, for the kids to occupy they minds.
CruiseCast released this news:

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Well … I am almost sad to say I have finished another ‘dirty jobs’ assignment, and have moved on to what can only be described as a sweet gig.
Today I am circling the course — including all of the highly populated watering holes — at Fort Worth’s Colonial Country Club, for the Crowne Plaza Invitational [...]

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I was looking for some inspiration, when along came Devo. WOXY, an Internet radio station I frequent, is now playing “Whip It.”  “Crack that whip” … now that’s inspiration in its truest form.
(For newcomers, fyi, there is an interview of Devo’s frontman Mark Mothersbaugh on this site.)
Today — no stories of Wi-Fi … just [...]

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‘Turn Me On Dead Man’
Ever hear that phrase?
Back in the day, when the Beatles took a break from experimental drugs, they experimented with backward masking — purportedly playing audio tapes backward and recording the sound effects into their songs. One such hidden treasure was John saying, “Turn me on dead man,” referring to a [...]

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One night I remembered the sordid details of some non-Freudian dream (darn it) in which I was tweeting status updates throughout the night.
You do Twitter, right? (If so, feel free to follow @pingwifi):
http://twitter.com/PingWiFi
This I know. I have two psychics “following me” on Twitter … but I have to ask, why aren’t they leading? [...]

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Interesting news release … I ain’t gonna lie … we saw this one coming …
AT&T Sees Surge in Wi-Fi Connections
Usage Boosted By Increase in Broadband Customer Base, Growth of Wi-Fi Enabled Devices
DALLAS — AT&T, the U.S. Wi-Fi leader with nearly 20,000 domestic hotspots, today reported dramatic growth in the number of Wi-Fi users and connections. [...]

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