While not busy encouraging the destruction of the original ‘Moore’s Law’ article, Intel’s employees have installed a wireless hot spot near the North Pole. Built in the Arctic region at the Barneo ice camp, Intel Russia engineers installed an 802.11 b/g access point and established a connection with four of their laptops, 78 miles from the North Pole (using, of course, Centrino mobile technology to accomplish this feat). The hot spot has since been taken down, but survived the cold (-22°F or worse) and worked reliably. Of course, “Intel pointed to the experiment as an example of how mobile technology allows users to work anywhere,” even if I can’t get a signal in my own backyard.
