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Awful SXSW Idea: Turning Homeless Into 4G Hotspots

Bloggers cringe at marketing company plan

(Newser) - A plan to turn homeless people into 4G hotspots has digitalphiles at the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin crying "exploitive" and "dystopian." In a nutshell, a marketing company wants homeless people to carry MiFi devices that would enable passersby to get online when their carrier service won'...

Best Tech Ideas of 2009

 Best Tech Ideas of 2009
5th annual pogies

Best Tech Ideas of 2009

Clutter-free web pages and personal hotspots makes the list

(Newser) - The year's "single best tech idea" is a simple trick that makes reading web pages a lot easier, writes David Pogue in the New York Times . Called Readability, "it's a free button for your web browser's toolbar." Click it, and it "eliminates everything from the web...

A WiFi Hotspot in Your Pocket
 A WiFi Hotspot in Your Pocket 
TECH REVIEW

A WiFi Hotspot in Your Pocket

(Newser) - Verizon’s newest wireless gadget, the MiFi—a portable WiFi hotspot—has a big fan in David Pogue of the New York Times. The MiFi is a combination of a cellular modem without the “nasty little antenna protuberance” and a wireless router. Anywhere on Verizon’s 3G network, one...

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