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Loiterers not welcome

No More Perks: Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptop Users – WSJ.com

A sign at Naidre’s, a small neighborhood coffee shop in Brooklyn, N.Y., begins warmly: “Dear customers, we are absolutely thrilled that you like us so much that you want to spend the day…”

But, it continues, “…people gotta eat, and to eat [...]

Jailbreak!

Perhaps if Apple would offer some of those features that everyone knows that the iPhone is actually capable of, but which are not being offered because of some sort of political backoffice wranglings between Apple and AT&T; features like MMS (multimedia messaging service) and tethering the iPhone to use it as a modem/access point for [...]

A nomad growing roots

Nomads at last | Economist.com

Wireless communication is changing the way people work, live, love and relate to places—and each other, says Andreas Kluth.

Illustration by Bell Mellor

AT THE Nomad Café in Oakland, California, Tia Katrina Canlas, a law student at the nearby university in Berkeley, places her double Americano next to her [...]

No right to privacy at the border

Laptops fair game for airport customs searches

Customs agents at U.S. airports don’t need any evidence of wrongdoing to search the contents of passengers’ laptop computers, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

Reinstating child pornography evidence against a passenger at Los Angeles International Airport, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said [...]

Blog blankness

Ever feel like you should post something to your blog, but you have nothing to say? Seriously … anything would be better than what I got right now.

But no; here I sit, laptop in … well … my lap. Feet stretched out on the couch, bad sitcoms on the tube … make that really, [...]