Posted on April 24, 2007
Our good friends at Tropos Networks have selected the top 12 pictures in their “Coolest use of CityWide Wi-Fi Photo Contest!”. We’ve been running a link to this contest on our front page of Devicescape – so couldn’t ourselves submit photos – but they’ve got some great ones showing people connecting in some surprising places. Check out the photos and put in your vote. The lucky winner gets a brand new 17″ Apple MacBook Pro laptop. Runners up get the Sony Mylo. Check out how and where people are using wi-fi these days and cast your vote!
Posted on April 18, 2007
Just a quick reminder that we’ll be presenting in the Web 2.0 Open beta room this afternoon at 4pm. We’re going to be talking about the ways that Devicescape is currently helping enable Mobile 2.0, as well as some thoughts for what we can enable in the future through web APIs for our service, and even APIs that let web applications communicate with devices.
Posted on April 15, 2007
It’s always so fabulous when a customer completely understands the value of what you provide and even shares the vision of what you are striving to deliver in the future. A recent post to the Off Beat Mammal site so perfectly defines the Devicescape value proposition that I want to share it. Check out this post titled: “Never Log on to a Hotspot Again” where Off Beat Mammal writes: “I’m hoping one day to be able to go anywhere in the world and not have to think about connecting but just enjoy ubiquitous connectivity with services like Devicescape performing magic in the background.” Thank you Off Beat Mammal – for the post and for getting the vision of what we do and sharing the vision of where we are going!
Posted on April 14, 2007
Devicescape has been invited to a give a scheduled presentation at the Web 2.0 conference next week in San Francisco. And what, you may ask, is Devicescape *doing* with Web 2.0? Enabling the next revolution…Mobile 2.0. Devicescape has always been involved with making connecting easier – especially when you are on the go – and now this phenomenon has take on the meme “Mobile 2.0.” This (r)evolution of the Mobile 2.0 space started with cell phones getting connected to the internet in early and simple ways – like downloading ring tones and SMS. The focus of late has been on increasing the access of phones to the web, email and other data services over traditional cellular networks. We think things are going to be much bigger than this. First – there will be more devices than just your cell phone in this picture. All types of devices will evolve to be able to access all the content and applications available on the internet. Game systems, media players, GPS are just a few. Even the phone will continue its evolution to become more an appliance that just a simple cell phone. Today, you can hardly find a cell phone that doesn’t…
Posted on April 13, 2007
Linksys has a promotion running at the moment on the iPhone; their iPhone family that is, which includes the WIP300 device that Devicescape supports. With Devicescape’s software upgrade for the WIP300 you get hotspot access without a browser, so I’ve updated their WIP family comparison table: The WIP330 comes with a browser, which is why it can login at hotspots, but entering username and password information using a numeric keypad, especially if you use punctuation symbols in your password for security, is painful.
