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AMD Papers Over Free Wi-Fi Network Builders
Glenn Fleishman writes "It's been widely reported in the last week that AMD, Intel's processor competitor, was launching a free hotspot network. It's come out, in reporting we just posted at Wi-Fi Networking News, that AMD has built this network by calling existing free hotspots and asking if they'd put stickers in their window. This might be fine: stickers and the label "AMD HotSpot" in exchange for promotion. However, in Austin several local wireless activists say that AMD has put their hotspot decals up in stores without the stores' permission, including at locations operated and supported by Austin Wireless City and Austin Unleashed. Guerrilla marketing gone overzealous? Or an attempt to seize the credit without paying for it?"
Or does someone have the stickers? If you don't see them go up, you have no idea who actually is responsible.
I call computer-illiteracy job security
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deadly weepons.
That just sucks.
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>It is a scam; the AMD guy has been going by my Hotspots and "dropping
>off" or just sticking the stickers up. It really pisses me off. AFAIK
>they have no hotspots of their own, they are just stealing others
>thunder. If the person dropping off these stickers monitors this list,
>I highly recommend you stop. If I catch you, I will sue you. I like
>AMD, and I hope this is not a corporate policy, just a misguided
>marketer.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Tom [mailto:christomscrewyouspambots@screwyouspambots
>Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:25 AM
>To: austinwirelessscrewyouspambots@spamlists.marlabs.
>Subject: [AWN] Free AMD WiFi?
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>Hey guys,
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>I ate at the Far West El Arroyo last night, and they now have AMD
>branded WiFi. I've not heard of such a program from AMD before, and I
>know that location has had WiFi in the past. Has anyone else seen
>these around? There were a couple of official AMD signs posted up. I
>was at the 5th Street location last week and I didn't see any
>indication of AMD being involved with their connection.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Chris Tom
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>Austinbands.net
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This kind of reminds me of the Microsoft butterfly campaign in NYC. How much do you wanna bet this was the clueful idea of some champ in marketing? When will they learn?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
...sticking it to the competition.
Better than seeing Intel(r) Inside on every business.
One of the biggest problems with "guerrilla marketing" organizations is that they're basically made up of college students working in sitations where it's hard to veryify what they actually did. I remember in 1999 walking accross the Syracuse University campus seeing several .com's URLs written on the sidewalks on the Quad. That's a no-no according to the University rules, but the .com's blamed students who had been told to put the chalk writing in high-traffic public sidewalk locations, not on private property. Students were just too dense to understand that the Quad belongs to the University, not the government, but the company wasn't helping them any by pointing that out.
I get really tired of trying to find a hotspot on one of several hotspot maps only to find them all cluttered with Starbucks (TWELVE within one mile of my office) and McDonalds.
The only free hotspot I know of in the area is a coffee shop on Bush & Kearny, and I patronize the shop over others because of the free 802.11 access.
It's nice to have, and it does bring in the business.
More opportunities for me to download copyrighted music with impunity!!
Isn't it better to leave the case closed, with good intake fans on the front and exhaust on the back? Forced-air convection through a case is better than open convection I believe.
Ok gang, it's payback time! Here's how it goes down:
- get a bunch of those "AMD HotSpot" stickers (unused or by removing them from the windows of premises)
- strategically stick them on your pants right over your privates
- display them proudly like a Ralph Lauren runway model.
That will get them the kind of publicity they don't need.I bought an Apple Airport Extreme basestation as a gift for a cafe that opened around the corner from my house last year. They had three iMacs, but no wireless, so I thought that it might help bring in some laptop-wielding customers. Went in a month ago and saw that the cafe, full of white Apple iMacs, had been branded an AMD hotspot. heh..
We're not sure... but we think it's Intel's fault...
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.