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| Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:26:11 -0700
From: Don Y <anonymous@invalid.telecom-digest.us>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Theaters Struggle With Patrons' Phone Use During Shows
Message-ID: <mnuf12$ggq$1@speranza.aioe.org>
On 7/11/2015 8:10 PM, Monty Solomon wrote:
> Recorded announcements and personal pleas have only a limited
> effect, as recent incidents on Broadway and elsewhere demonstrate.
On a somewhat related note...
I've often wondered why such venues don't "shield" the rooms with
aluminized paint, etc. Granted, it won't stop folks from playing
games on their phones -- but the inbound/outbound traffic would
be stopped.
[I suspect an active jammer is illegal]
I've thought of painting the rooms, here, similarly in an attempt to
curb RF leakage (and infiltration) -- WiFi services that I'm not
keen on others being able to snoop, interact or distrupt.
However, I am reluctant to do so as paint is damn near "forever"!
And, no idea how that would increase liability (e.g., someone has
a heart attack in the living room and calls to 911 are effectively
blocked).
Of course, IANAL but I don't think a big sign on the front door
that states "DANGER: Wireless devices inoperative inside" would
suffice...
Back on topic: is there any means of "fixing" this problem -- short
of reeducating folks on "manners" and "social responsibility"?
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| Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 19:50:26 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Sundar Pichai of Google Talks About Phone Intrusion
Message-ID: <FDCA19E6-B230-4C20-AD16-AA0C03900C79@roscom.com>
Sundar Pichai of Google Talks About Phone Intrusion
Google's senior vice president of products speaks at length about how
Google products and apps try to balance giving you information with
letting you live your life.
http://goo.gl/HJJHLu
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| Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 01:21:50 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Reinventing Google for a Mobile World
Message-ID: <B77338E6-97CE-42D4-A58A-5FEA219EF690@roscom.com>
As Google races to become as essential on smartphones as it is on
desktops, competition is popping up throughout Silicon Valley.
Amit Singhal, Google's search chief, oversees the 200 or so factors
that determine where websites rank in the company's search engine,
which means he decides if your website lives or dies. His current
challenge: figuring out how to spread that same fear and influence to
mobile phones.
In a recent interview at Google's headquarters in Mountain View,
Calif., Mr. Singhal laid out a widely held thesis for why smartphones
are fundamentally changing how people are consuming information:
Phones have small screens that are annoying to type on, and people
have grown so addicted to their phones that they carry them everywhere
and go to bed with them by their side. Also, in a shift with big
implications for his company's sway over the Internet, smartphone
users spend the bulk of their time in mobile apps instead of the open
web on which Google built its business.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/technology/reinventing-google-for-a-mobile-world.html
***** Moderator's Note *****
"Addicted"! Yes, that is the word I've been searching for!
Bill Horne
Moderator
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| Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 17:03:32 -0400
From: Pete Cresswell <PeteCress@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Theaters Struggle With Patrons' Phone Use During Shows
Message-ID: <4fl5qapb0siqpcl7mp1r85jhjcer5in4cv@4ax.com>
Per Monty Solomon:
>Recorded announcements and personal pleas have only a limited effect,
>as recent incidents on Broadway and elsewhere demonstrate.
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/theater/theaters-struggle-with-patrons-phone-use-during-shows.html
>
"'High-tech solutions remain off the table. Except for authorized
federal law enforcement, cellphone jamming is illegal in the United
States. And for good reason, according to Brian Josef, assistant vice
president for regulatory affairs for the Washington-based trade group
CTIA: The Wireless Association.
"We can all think about emergencies in theaters or schools where being
able to reach 911 is critical," he said. "The worry is that jammers are
a very blunt instrument."
Worse yet, they cut into minutes used and, therefore, revenue..... -)
- -
Pete Cresswell
***** Moderator's Note *****
The CTIA seems to feel that anything which annoys the members of the
trade group is a "blunt instrument", which will have to be refined so
as not to endanger hoi polloi. How, I ask, did a question about
disabling cellphones so as to enjoy a quiet theater turn into an
implied warning about dead children in schools?
Bill Horne
Moderator
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| Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 16:53:49 -0400
From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Free Hotel Wi-Fi is increasingly on Travelers' Must-Have Lists
Message-ID: <barmar-B42102.16534912072015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>
In article <06eddb28-1e63-4c4a-a167-d6e8c88b1b4e@googlegroups.com>,
HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> wrote:
> For example, many hotels and motels do not have a concierge, and a
> guest seeking tickets (per above) would need a computer to find out
> local events and to order tickets. Many places these days really push
> for their patrons to use a computer rather than ordering by phone or
> even in person.
I've never been to a luxury hotel that doesn't have a concierge.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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