It seems like we don’t hear much about MiFi’s anymore. Most smartphones ship with a personal hotspot function that emulates a MiFi, and thankfully our carriers here in Canada allow personal hotspot use at no extra charge. So it’s a tough time for the MiFi, having its purpose emulated by the smartphone everyone is already [...]

Thanks to the popularity of the personal hotspot feature in smartphones, wireless MiFi’s don’t get much attention these days. Novatel and Bell are hoping to change that with the introduction of the MiFi 2, the “world’s first touchscreen mobile hotspot” that will launch on Bell’s 4G LTE network in March. At Mobile World Congress in [...]

There isn’t much to say about things that connect you to the Internet. They are conduits, merely avenues to data, and not the data itself. We live in a world of invisible backhaul switches, routers and subnets, and the only time we are aware of them is when they are not working. Similarly, in your [...]