Greetings From Chicago As Fall Tech Tour 2008 Begins
Your humble narrator is now comfortably ensconced at the super cool Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, awaiting the start of the WiMax World conference Wednesday and Thursday as the Great Lakes IT Report's Fall Tech Tour 2008 gets under way.
The event will feature news on what many people think is the future of Internet service -- Wi-Fi broadcast from a tower, like a TV or FM radio station, with a range of 40 miles or so. Sprint is in the midst of rolling out the first such service as we speak. The implication of high-speed access that can follow you anywhere and which doesn't involve a phone connection are staggering.
Then there's this year's TechTour-mobile -- the brand-new 2009 Dodge Durango Hybrid. What a truck! Roomy, comfortable, impeccable handling for such a big high-center-of-gravity vehicle, that cool Hemi growl when you mash the gas -- and a hybrid system that got me 22 mpg on the way over from Detroit on I-94 at 70-ish mph. I'm not yet willing to say I'm in love, but it's probably going to be a serious crush before the week is over.
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