Fort Worth’s Lone Star International Film Festival’s opening night set the bar high with a screening of “Sunshine Cleaning” which earlier was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at that other Sundance Film Festival in Utah. In “Sunshine Cleaning” the plot pokes fun at taboo topics ranging from illegitimate offspring to the lowest point of […]

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Boingo Wireless Acquires Opti-Fi Networks Acquisition Will Add 25 More Airports to Boingo Footprint LOS ANGELES — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Boingo Wireless® announces that it has acquired Opti-Fi Networks, a limited liability company from Parsons Transportation Group and ARINC, that provides Wi-Fi infrastructure implementation and management for airports around North America.

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Wow … what an overnight trip to Texas Tech!  I confess, it was a bit of an “impulse buy.”  But, a ticket to the Oklahoma State game became available, and gas prices were hovering at only $2 a gallon.  How could I resist a little PingWi-Fi road trip? Who doesn’t love to crash an ABC […]

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Well, it took exactly one and only one ocean wave to rip off my sunglasses — even though they were “tied on” my head with a brand new, Lifeguard-red croakie strap.  Ha … That’s a good look! “Aye, the ocean she is angry and she has taken me rose colored spectacles to the deep, to […]

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So … this can only be good for my Wayport and AT&T subscriber memberships.  This news release, just in: AT&T TO ACQUIRE WAYPORT Combined wi-fi networks to provide connectivity in more places Millions of AT&T Customers to Get Free Wi-Fi Access at Nearly 20,000 U.S. Hotspots DALLAS and AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 6, 2008 —AT&T Inc. […]

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Quickly, we pause to send a shout out to Steve Rubel, communications guru: http://www.micropersuasion.com/ … thanks for the mention Steve, back at yah! Check out Steve’s site and sign up for his daily communiques for the best in Internet strategies. My opinion: Rubel introduced the PR world to the potential of Web 2.0, and he […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The next day, I fired up the Wi-Fi Ford 250 Diesel, 4-wheel-drive, King Ranch edition and rolled toward Jacksonville for some urban trucking. But first, I ran across what must be the shopping mecca of north Florida, St. Johns Town Center. As I like to say, there was more Wi-Fi than you could shake a […]

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