For travel and meetings, nothing has vaulted to the top of the must-have list faster than wireless hotel Internet access. While finding a hotel with Wi-Fi is a cinch these days, spotty service and high fees still aggravate travelers. That’s why we were thrilled to come across HotelChatter’s Annual Wi-Fi Report 2010, a comprehensive listing of which hotel brands offer free Wi-Fi, which ones charge, and which waive their fees for loyalty-program members. Get the lists.

In the days after the eruption of the Icelandic volcano last month, Web conferencing proved itself as a viable emergency measure when business travel becomes impossible. As the skies over Europe began to clear, I spoke to Web conferencing vendors in Europe and the United States about their scrambles through the travel embargo, including event rescues for high-profile customers such as Goldman Sachs and McDonald's. Read the post.

ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership’s technology education and networking efforts took an unscheduled break this winter when snow canceled the association's tech-focused February conference. But the organization is making up for lost time. This summer’s annual meeting will have 21 tech sessions, and the winter Technology Conference and Expo has been repositioned as a November/December event, this year December 13-15. Read about both events, including the tech show’s Call for Presentations, which opens May 17.

The other day, I received a tweet, with a compressed URL link, from a good friend asking if I wanted to learn about her weight-loss program. After a moment (and before clicking the link), I thought, “Wait a minute. She has always been quite thin.” No … not Twitter spam!

It doesn’t matter what your favorite communication tool is, odds are that the jerks out there have found a way to use it to try to compromise your security. Years ago, I often focused on helping readers protect their computers. Well, it seems that it’s time to go back to the old days. … More.