IF you find yourself stuck in an airport, and you have a Boingo membership for Wi-Fi … or T-Mobile … or whatever, I encourage you to spend some time with us and look through this site. There is much more than meets the eye, buried deep in the back pages.
Entries from October 2008
Where Do We Go From Here? — Pre-Ping Wi-Fi Benchmark
October 18th, 2008 · Tags: Airports · Cities · Coffee Shops · Hotels · Restaurant · Satire · Sports
All The World’s An Oyster … Blue Öyster Cult Embraces Cowbell, Etc.
October 13th, 2008 · Tags: Arts
… Ironic that a line came to me for this blog during my pastor’s sermon on Sunday. When he quoted the saying “The world is your oyster,” I suspected divine intervention. Or was it? What a perfect phrase to describe the Web, where any blogger can publish and be read instantly anywhere. Now, couple that […]
Price Is Right: It Was A Definitive Moment, With Special Sauce
October 13th, 2008 · Tags: Arts
Let me send a special shout out to Michael H. Price, across town at The Fort Worth Business Press. He laid down some kind words about PingWi-Fi in his column at: http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=8628 In the piece, Price recounts how he, two other colleagues and I all sat in on an interview with blues legend Willie Dixon. […]
T-Mobile, RIM Offer First Blackberry Flip Phone In U.S.
October 13th, 2008 · Tags: Gadgets
This just in from our pen pals in the Northwest: T-Mobile USA Launches First BlackBerry Flip Phone New BlackBerry Pearl Flip Features Most Popular Mobile Phone Design in U.S. Bellevue, Wash., and Waterloo, Ontario—Oct. 13, 2008—T-Mobile USA, Inc., and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM: TSX: RIM) today announced the BlackBerry® Pearl™ Flip 8220 smartphone—the […]
Heisman And Lowman On Media Totem Pole Reach Impasse
October 12th, 2008 · Tags: Satire · Sports
I learned much when I crisscrossed the country in 2004, blogging in all those cities. One gem is this — if you go against the popular opinion in media – even if you state the obvious – the media will turn their back on you. You either get on board, or kiss your positive media […]
Southwest Airlines Wi-Fi: No Love For Porn — Duh!
October 8th, 2008 · Tags: Airports
Porno-Schmorno! There is no question, among reasonable adults, that pornography is bad, stupid, degrading to all humans and has no place on a plane. But should an airline police airspace for nasty MySpace pages and worse? Yes! … just as soon as airlines outlaw romance novels, magazines, DVDs and pencil/pads with which pervs might draw […]
In Lieu Of Payment, Quips For Quid
October 7th, 2008 · Tags: Satire
“Welcome to starting a new business, Mr. Ping.” Hah! … Do I think this site will take off? Certainly. Will it be anytime soon? Who knows. But, rest assured until those sponsors beg to be on my site, there is a contingency plan for survival. In fact, in the interest of full disclosure, my accounting […]
Aloft, But Not Aloof — PingWi-Fi Not Shaken At O’Hare
October 5th, 2008 · Tags: Cities · Hotels
So, have you ever walked into a place and realized immediately that it was way too cool for you? That’s exactly how I felt when I stepped inside the swank lobby of the Aloft Chicago O’Hare hotel. Instantly I felt as though I should have tried to sneak a martini shaker through security at the […]
In The Event You Have Questions – PingWi-Fi.com News Release
October 4th, 2008 · Tags: Gadgets
It occurred to me that everyone may not have the time to look through this growing body of work, to piece together the objectives and features of PingWi-Fi. So, posted below is the news release from the PR team. It seemed to get pretty good play in media around the country. So, this should break […]
ESPN Zone Wi-Fi: Don’t Tear Down Goalposts Just Yet
October 2nd, 2008 · Tags: Cities · Restaurant
In sports, on any given Sunday, the lowest ranking team might rise up and hand you your star quarterback’s head on a plate. Anything can happen. It’s why you play the game – fantasy or otherwise. In PR, it isn’t supposed to be that way. Every day, you are supposed to put your game face […]