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Boingo adds 30 more airports to its hot spot footprint including some Canadian ones. Meanwhile Toshiba MyConnect has started offering $3.95/hour WiFi access but that’s going to cost a one-time $9.99 plan activation fee. Me, I would settle for EVDO, if I can find it.

SBC, once again proving that it is one of the canniest companies in the world is likely to switch its name to AT&T once the deal closes. AT&T is a bigger, and perhaps a better loved brand than SBC, at least in People’s Republic of California. Business Week reports that Ed Whitacre will ride into [...]

If you took things at face value, then the recent fad of adding voice to the “instant messaging” clients is nothing but Silicon Valley’s version of keeping up with Jones. Yahoo (via DialPad acquisition), Microsoft (via Teleo acquisition), AIM, Google Talk and Apple’s iChat are taking a cue from Skype and giving their users to [...]

Today might be a good day to yell “touchdown.” Two months ago, I had reported that Microsoft had been eyeing Teleo, a small San Francisco-based VoIP provider. Now finally, there is a confirmation via C/Net News.com.
“We’ve been making a lot of investments in voice, but as we looked at continuing…we had that build or buy [...]

Skype says, its not for sale! Of course, if you got $3 billion, then lets talk. The company says it might consider an initial public offering.

The fine folks at IOGear sent me a test unit of their new five button mouse, The USB Laser Mouse, promising me that it would be a fantastic experience, especially if you are using a PC laptop. They said you could program the five buttons to open up any application I wanted. You could do [...]