Besides, why would an airport, a hotel or a coffee shop turn down the opportunity to make money? For hotspots in bars or cafés, for example, the idea is that offering wireless internet services will encourage customers to linger a little longer and...
He said users may feel they have a secure connection at a coffee shop, only to find someone can get into their laptop when it isn't connected to the WLAN because their PC card is still openly broadcasting.
But the point remains that when working at a coffee shop or hotel lobby it is possible to get and up and move about. Working on a plane, such mobility is rare. The problem of shoulder surfing isn't limited to wireless connectivity, of course.
The government today unveiled an online marketplace for public sector organisations, in a bid to cut the time and cost of hunting for everything from medical supplies to IT hardware. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is one of the first...
After all, most customers - even those out of their minds on the caffeine buzz of a double espresso - are actually capable of showing some restraint, whereas a coffee shop owner who liberally scattered 'jazz mags' over the table tops of his...
Written in a coffee shop at Wickham Market, Suffolk, and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in Woodbridge a day later. Fast-forward to today and we have multiple fixed and mobile networks with twisted pair, coax, optical fibre, wi-fi, and WiMax...