A bit different today, all of us here at MoGo want to take a short break and just wish everyone a very Happy Memorial Day!

In lieu of mobility tips, Bluetooth technology updates or rants on why MoGo is the sweetest thing since PopTarts for all of us young, hip, road-warriors, today we just want to wish everyone a very Happy Memorial Day and ask that you keep all of the service-men and women that are defending our country in your thoughts, prayers, wishes and hopes.

They follow orders to keep us safe, the least we can do is give them our respect and take a day out to say Thank You!

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If you’ve been waiting for the day when you’ll be allowed to use your cell phone while airborne, you should probably stop.

Because it isn’t going to happen anytime soon.

In March, the FCC announced that it has disbanded the investigation that would have possibly resulted in changing the rules about mobile phone usage in plane cabins.

While the reason for this decision was cited as ‘lack of evidence’ compelling a review on the subject, most road warriors (yes, including me) consider this the triumph of common sense - on two levels.

There is the safety issue. More than one pilot has traced technical malfunctions over the last 15 years or so to mobile phone usage in flight. And even a one-in-a-million chance is too much when you’re talking about the possibility of a problem 10,000 feet above the planet.

But then there is the practical reality. On a coach ticket, pressed closer to your neighbor than you ever got to your spouse while dressed, there is absolutely NO WAY one of you can slip out a phone and start yapping about whatever without the other turning into a homicidal maniac.

The flight itself has remained a sacred place of apartness. Where the office, the team, the deliverables, the deadline… can not reach you. OR your neighbor.

Bravo to the FCC for preserving the peace.

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Guess what friends, things are getting lighter, stronger, faster, more efficient, and most of all, SMALLER.  With every day hour that passes someone somewhere is coming out with a tinier version of whatever it is you’re using right now.  I think we saw that in an extreme case last week with the Bluetooth Headset that literally fit INSIDE your ear canal.  Scary.

Nevertheless, technology certainly is catching up with the science fiction of our imaginations, and I just found a cool little article packed with Tech ideas for all you “space conscious” Road Warriors out there.  Lets face it, with airports cracking down on that 50lb rule, any extra size and/or weight we can drop without dropping the technology we know, love and desperately need, the better.

Head over, read up on some of Their tech ideas, then head back here for a daily onslaught of Our tech ideas.  I hate to toot our own horns, but folks, can you get any cooler, any more “Road Warrior-ish” than a fully operational mouse that weighs next to nothing and literally fits INSIDE your computer?  I don’t think so.

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