The reality has often been not quite as easy as it sounds. My first year here in France saw me trying to edit Euroslot on a dial-up connection as the local Mairie had refused to allow broadband cabling. You can only imagine the frustration of trying to download a 10MB image of a note acceptor only to have the connection fail one hour in...

Now, I use a 3G dongle when I am not at my desk and I find it an amazing help. I am writing this on a family holiday with the kids screaming downstairs - true mobile working. I note with interest that 3G is the way forward for some of the companies we interviewed for this month's music feature. It means that jukeboxes can now be moved from one site to another and be profiled and updated with music from a remote source. Just incredible use of technology that once again shows how the jukebox above almost any other machine has moved with the times.

Stephanie Norbury

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