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"An Unwired home wouldn't be a deal breaker in Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod, but in North Carolina's Outer Banks, WiFi is all the rage. Jon Summerton, vice president of Twiddy & Co. Realtors in Duck, N.C., says that last year only 5% of the company's 685 rental properties had Internet access; this year the figure jumped to 40% and inlcudes mostly WiFi equipped homes."
- Excerpted from the Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2005, by Jessica Mintz
On this year's vacation it's hard to ignore the stories from home
by Paula Gardner | Michigan Business Review
Thursday April 23, 2009, 10:07 AM
Despite prospects of an 82-and-sunny day, the gentle sounds of birds floating across the pool and a beach about 25 feet from my seat in my favorite south Florida lanai, I have to feel a little bit glum.
My vacation, on one front, is a big failure: I'm unable to disconnect. (read more...)