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Hotels pinched by tech-savvy guests

iPhones, other devices threaten to make in-room services obsolete

From the article:

Traveling to Las Vegas for a conference last month, Brian DeLong could have gotten annoyed when he found out his off-Strip hotel charged a fee for Wi-Fi in his room. Instead, he whipped out his iPhone 4, fired up its Personal Hotspot software and accessed the Web "for free" via his iPad and laptop.

"They wanted $10 or $15 a day," said the founder of Ideavise Inc., a marketing and technology solutions company. "The crazy thing is it's like 20 bucks a month for me to get it on my phone — and I'm not even in the room that much."

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