Small Biz Technology Advisor Blog

by Christopher G. Erckert
Small Business Technology Advisor

So it’s pretty fair to say that if you’ve bought a laptop within the last few years you can tap into WiFi Hot Spots everywhere, if you can find them.

I found this out first hand on a recent trip to Florida. Armed with my WiFi laptop and needing to keep in touch with clients and friends back home I had to find the closest Hot Spot when I was out and about. Fortunately, I was armed with Google Mobile Maps for my mobile phone. It’s a simplified version of Google Maps which most of you may already use today. The neat trick was that I was able to type in WiFi + the city I was in, and it listed all the nearby Hot Spots, everything from McDonald’s, Panera Bread, Starbucks, to a nearby UPS Store.

Google Maps is available for both Windows Mobile, Palm and many other phones. You’ll also need a data plan in addition to your regular calling plan so that the map program can access the internet over mobile network.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 at 9:41 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

by Christopher G. Erckert
Small Business Technology Advisor

So it’s pretty fair to say that if you’ve bought a laptop within the last few years you can tap into WiFi Hot Spots everywhere, if you can find them.

I found this out first hand on a recent trip to Florida. Armed with my WiFi laptop and needing to keep in touch with clients and friends back home I had to find the closest Hot Spot when I was out and about. Fortunately, I was armed with Google Mobile Maps for my mobile phone. It’s a simplified version of Google Maps which most of you may already use today. The neat trick was that I was able to type in WiFi + the city I was in, and it listed all the nearby Hot Spots, everything from McDonald’s, Panera Bread, Starbucks, to a nearby UPS Store.

Google Maps is available for both Windows Mobile, Palm and many other phones. You’ll also need a data plan in addition to your regular calling plan so that the map program can access the internet over mobile network.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 at 9:41 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.