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Boingo Wireless 1.7 (Windows)

A great utility for managing 802.11b/a/g Wi-Fi networks in your home, office, and when you are on the road. Wi-Fi 'sniffer' shows you what wireless network signals are available. Makes connecting easy. Set up network profiles so you don't have to do configuration work each time you change networks. Supports...

Tags: Boingo Networks, Network, Microsoft Windows, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless And Mobility, Networking

Software downloads 2009-08-25

Boingo 1.6.0022.0 (Mac)

The global market leader in Wi-Fi hotspots, has just released a new version of The Boingo software client for Intel-based Macs running Tiger or Leopard Powerbook users can use the client in Tiger. The Boingo software client makes it super easy to connect to any of the more than 100,000...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Boingo Networks, Wireless And Mobility

Software downloads 2009-06-03

Boingo Mobile XBWGWM100 (Mobile)

Get high-speed access to thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide on your Wi-Fi enabled Windows Mobile smartphone. Connect to Boingo Wi-Fi in hundreds of airports, thousands of hotels and tens of thousands of cafes, retail stores and other commercial Wi-Fi locations--all for one low price. The software automatically identifies and logs...

Tags: Boingo Networks, Mobile, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

Software downloads 2009-03-25

Qik and Boingo are in love, share your love to win

Do you have Qik on your mobile phone? Is there someone out there that you love? If both of these apply to you, then you may want to record a declaration of that love with Qik for a chance to win one of three free year-long Boingo Mobile subscriptions (US$95.40...

Tags: Boingo Networks, Mobile, Qik, Boingo Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-02-13

Boingo to provide WiFi service on Washington State ferries

Boingo Wireless provides WiFi services all over the world and I have used them on the past in Spain and London. They have been busy adding more wireless networks and today announced that they will be providing the services for the Washington State ferry system. About 1/4 of the employees...

Tags: Ferry, Boingo Networks, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Matthew Miller, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Boingo - a traveler's lifesaver

Boingo - a traveler's lifesaverIs blackberry charging for 'data roaming' now?A colleague informed me that since May 2008 she has been charged for sending and receiving emails while outside of the country. As far as I know the charge for the data component of blackberry service is a lump sum...

Tags: Handhelds, Boingo Networks

Discussion threads 2008-09-17

Boingo - a traveler's lifesaver

I've been road testing Boingo on both my laptop and N95 the last few months. It's great. In short, Boingo provides subscribers with an easy way to avoid all those ludicrous $X per day charges that hotels and airport operators try to gouge out of you when on the road...

Tags: Boingo Networks, Network, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Networking, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-17

MWC08: Boingo announces mobile support for Windows Mobile 6 and UIQ

I was given a trial account of Boingo Mobile to use with Nokia Nseries devices here at Mobile World Congress 2008 and it is a great way to get connected for only US$7.95 per month for unlimited worldwide access. Boingo announced that they have updated their clients to now run...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Boingo Networks, Mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-10

Boingo and Nokia announce mobile client with low monthly access fee

Nokia likes to label their high-end mobile devices as multimedia computers rather than smartphones and with the features and services they continue to offer it looks like these devices are really more computer than phone. In what I think is a great move for Nokia, they have partnered with Boingo...

Tags: Boingo Networks, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Boingo Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Boingo Wireless to get big boost from FON alliance

Wi-Fi network operator/aggregator Boingo Wireless announces this morning it is teaming up with FON in an endeavor that will provide Boingo users with access to some 130,000 Wi-Fi hot spot locations.The project will more than double Boingo's size.This isn't just your usual alliance. FON's hotspots come into being from  businesses...

Tags: News, WiFi

Blog posts 2007-05-24

BridgePort pushes the ease-of-handoff, ease-of-reachability ball forward

BridgePort Networks made two very interesting announcements at CTIA. First, they are collaborating with handset maker Kyocera and Wi-Fi hotspot access provider Boingo to enable a CDMA-Wi-Fi handset with integrated Boingo Wi-Fi access.Such solutions are all about a one-device ease of handoff, and in the case of the Boingo...

Tags: Boingo Networks, BridgePort Networks

Blog posts 2006-04-10

Why EarthLink should acquire Boingo

Broadband provider EarthLink has won the bid to build a citywide Wi-Fi network in Philadelphia. Yesterday, EarthLink announced that it is partnering with broadband access wholesaler Covad Communications to offer VoIP. The service, which will cost $69.95 for the top tier package, will feature unlimited calling within the U.S.,...

Tags: EarthLink Inc.

Blog posts 2006-01-31

New Skype-Boingo Skype Zones service should make cell carriers nervous

New Skype-Boingo Skype Zones service should make cell carriers nervousRunning scaredVoIP will destroy ALL telcos - landline and cell. The WiMAX steamroller will destroy ISPs - and take VoIP for itself . . .

Tags: Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Zones, Boingo Networks

Discussion threads 2005-07-12

New Skype-Boingo Skype Zones service should make cell carriers nervous

If I were a cellular phone company executive marketing to on-the-go business travelers, I would be very nervous today.Especially those business travelers that use notebook computers or other Wi-Fi enabled portable devices.Why would I be freaked? Well, a portion of my customer base might just decide they don't need to...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Zones

Blog posts 2005-07-12

Skype, Boingo tie up in phone deal

Skype, Boingo tie up in phone dealwhere can i find other 's opionwhere can i find other 's opionCan you see it comming?Any technology/experience that is gained from this is IMMEDIATELY APPLICABLE to WiMAX when it comes out. There are people paving the road ahead of the steamroller.....and a great...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone deal, Boingo Networks, Skype Technologies S.A., phone

Discussion threads 2005-07-11

Sure, Boingo knows Wi-Fi, but can they compete in VoIP?

If you Wi-Fi, you probably know Boingo Wireless. They offer high-speed wireless Internet services in thousands of locations.Now, Boingo Wireless is making some noises about getting into the VoIP business. Not right away, but not far down the line either.In fact, Boingo Wireless president Dave Hagan told a wireless LAN...

Tags: Boingo Networks

Blog posts 2005-04-21

Wi-Fi visionary: better case for VoIP WiFi than VoIP over cell

Few visionaries have had a more significant role in the evolution of Internet access than Sky Dayton.Dayton, who is all of 33, co-founded EarthLink in 1994. Although he hasn't run the company since the early days,he remains a board member. In 2001, Dayton founded Boingo Wireless, a high-speed Wireless Internet...

Tags: VoIP, Dayton

Blog posts 2005-02-03

Boingo Electro 1.1.2 (Mac)

Boingo Electro is a fast-paced arcade game from the makers of Bumbler Beeluxe. You move around the playing field, whacking descending electrical sparks so that they remain at the top of the screen. This would be a fairly simple task if you weren't restricted to touching the sparks only about...

Tags: Spark, Apple Macintosh, Boingo Networks, Dadgum Games, Boingo Electro, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 1998-03-18

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DEMO 07 Day 2: Mobile morning

Day two of DEMO 07 opens with two segments devoted to mobility – one of my favorite topics these days. In these two segments, 15 companies will display their new ideas about making mobile devices work better and how services can be pushed to the mobile device to provide...

Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Hardware, Software, DEMO, mobile device, mobile marketing

Blog posts 2007-02-01

Wi-Fi sharing company wins Skype, Google backing

Wi-Fi sharing company wins Skype, Google backingGreat, better approach than CometaAll I can say is what took you so long:http://www.nigeljohnstone.com/archives/2005/10/blowing_your_ow.htmlAs stupid as can beP.T. Barnum's people are once again trying to hype the wrong technology for the job. WiFi was never meant to be a wide-area technology - it was...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Skype Technologies S.A., P.T. Barnum, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Wi-Fi, hotpoint, bandwidth

Discussion threads 2006-02-06