Wireless local area networks, or Wi-Fi hotspots, have been widely deployed in cities, college campus, airports, coffee bars, conference halls, hotels, and many other public places.
Then setting up coffees at conferences is going to be way more productive for you than attending a break-out session.
If you find yourself within walking distance of your intended destination (coffee shop, conference center, etc)., do so instead of taking a taxi.
Doing so is smart, of course, as SSL can prevent hackers and others who may want to snoop on your connection, which is especially a risk on public networks like those at coffee shops or conferences.
Murdoch arrived after most of the executives, who were chatting over coffee in a conference room.
"The menopause wasn't in any of my textbooks," she told me during the BMS conference coffee break.
I ran into Professor Mary Beard during the conference coffee break – who last night was bigging up Cicero as antiquity's greatest wit.
"This is far bigger than — I won't say than we ever imagined," Mr. Levy said over coffee in a conference room at the Cardozo Law School in New York.
One of the women Bridget Harris, who until a few months ago worked as a special adviser to Nick Clegg, told the programme that Lord Rennard behaved in a sexually inappropriate manner towards her in 2003 over coffee at a conference in Swansea.
Science changes as it makes its way on to television, just as it does as it travels to newspapers, magazines, books, exams and through the various media of the scientific community (journals, emails, gossip over coffee at a conference).
