CEDX

Hakia, a new search engine, demos at UrbanHotspots venue Klatch

Hakia, a new search startup is sponsoring a free coffee giveaway at Klatch, today September 6 from 2PM to 4PM.  Come down and get the scoop on Scoop 'n Save search results

Bringing Wi-Fi to Podcampnyc

UrbanHotSpots will be providing the wi-fi network for Podcampnyc on Saturday April 7th, at the New Yorker Hotel.  We are pleased as punch to be able to help the campers out, and looking forward to making lots of new friends.  Conference attendees will get online by using a prepaid code that is good for the day's conference and the following week at any UrbanHotSpots location.  To get your code, stop by the UrbanHotspots table at the conference and pick it up. 

Local Content means nothing without...

Delivery when and where it is relevant.  Lots of interesting initiatives are taking place now, but if you can only access local content from your house, or workplace, it does you no good when you're at the place that it's germane to, and that's the achilles heel of all these wonderful web 2.0 services.  They're only valuable when you're connected to them.  Right now, there's two mobile platforms that can make local content useful, and two networks to connect the content to the platform.  The former are the smartphone, and the laptop.   The latter are the cell data networks and wi-fi, in both hotspot and hotzone flavors.   As more dual-mode smartphones and wi-fi enabled mini-systems become available, that are not crippled by carriers like my Cingular E61 has been, relevant interactivity with local content will become more possible and popular.  The growth of public WLAN access, in whatever flavor will also drive this consumption, especially if presence applications make it easy to use multiple voice applications from a single device that has multiple radios ( both licensed and unlicensed or "open" spectrum )built into it.
 

Coming soon to a coach seat near you

In brilliant Spectracalifragilistic color, a video primer on our Wi-RAN product for motorcoach passengers is here for your viewing pleasure. An epic tale of bandwidth and mobility for high-powered Hamptonites, it's a preview of our rollout across the thirty-five vehicle fleet of the Hampton Jitney.  Click on the logo to see our quicktime movie.  Be patient, it's packed with 10 Megabytes of talent and drama!  We'll be in full deployment over the next few weeks.  Stay tuned for updates.

The video was produced for us by Benson-Tapia productions, Cinematographer and Voice Narrator:   -  J.J. Pagano
For more information about Benson-Tapia productions, contact Brenda Benson at:  631-875-8791
For more information about Wi-RAN installations and marketing opportunities, contact Craig Plunkett of Wi-RAN at 631-262-9300

Rolling Wi-Fi Installation

If you like using Wi-Fi on the Hampton Jitney, CEDX is happy to announce that you can have your own rolling Wi-Fi network installed by Supersound Communications, our installation partner in the NYC metro area.  Wi-RAN, our joint venture with Best Mobile Computing, has produced a version of our rolling hotspot that can go in the trunk of your car, van, or fleet vehicle.  For pricing, call CEDX at 631-262-9300

Wi-Fi Roaming

CEDX would like to inform its users that through our roaming relationship with cafe.com, we can offer an additional spot in Manhattan to use your CEDX wi-fi account, and that's Kudo Beans, at 49 First Avenue, in the East Village of Manhattan.  Cafe.com visitors from the left coast can also use CEDX hotspots, a listing of which can be found on Jiwire