He opened his laptop, logged on to the building's wireless-driven LAN (local area network) and fired up a "sniffer" program designed to scan the contents of other computers on the network.
Mr. Bates noted that travel companies as well as corporate travel managers are adjusting how and when they offer customer service — including offering more service outside ordinary business hours — to respond to younger travelers' expectation that they can go on a smartphone or a laptop, log onto Facebook or send a text, and find what they are looking for immediately.
No longer do you have to attach a document to an email from your phone, walk over to your desktop or laptop, log into your Gmail, download the attachment, and then print.
Speaking of super simple, I was able to open this laptop, log in with my Google credentials, and start using it as if it were my tablet or phone within three minutes.
When Private first class Bradley Manning made it to a Barnes & Noble book store outside of Washington, D.C, he unpacked his laptop, logged on to the complimentary Starbucks Wi-Fi, and searched for some files he had burned onto a disc back in Kuwait before Christmas.
When Private first class Bradley Manning made it to a Barnes & Noble bookstore outside of Washington, D.C., he unpacked his laptop, logged-on to the complimentary Starbucks Wi-Fi and searched for some files he had burned onto a disc back in Kuwait before Christmas.
When Private first class Bradley Manning made it to a Barnes & Noble bookstore outside of Washington, D.C., he unpacked his laptop, logged on to the complimentary Starbucks Wi-Fi, and searched for some files he had burned onto a disc back in Kuwait before Christmas.
Then, from cars leaving the capital, from hotel rooms, from seat 3A at thirty thousand feet, they will open their laptops, log into Luxembourg, and — with digital signatures to execute orders and a suite of tamper-resistant services linking global citizens to their government — continue running their country, with no interruption, from the cloud.
"Immediately – even if we're on the road somewhere – we'll go to our laptops, log in and then get on the phone to teleconference with other members of the team," says Gehrels.
ANDREI SOLDATOV sits down in the lobby of the Hotel Rossija in Moscow, orders tea, flips open his Sony Vaio laptop and logs on to the Internet to demonstrate his Web site via his wireless modem.
