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- FON
- (FON Wireless Ltd., Madrid, Spain, www.fon.com) A company founded in 2005 by Martin Varsavsky that sponsors a global Wi-Fi community. FON members, called "Foneros," install a special router...
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- Should we share our Wi-Fi in the name of cloud?
- Should we share our Wi-Fi in the name of cloud?Once all the ISPs start implementing volume capsyou can forget that idea.I'm confused...A router turns off when the PC attached to it is turned off?It's already there: FONCheck this:http://www.fon.com/en/info/whatsFonPretty big in The Netherlands already.Sounds great ... UNTIL.......the RIAA sues you because...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Wireless LANs, Network technology, NETWORKING, router, Wi-Fi, FON
- Discussion threads 2009-06-02
- 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
- Time Warner gets a clue
- For a decade now open standards have been anathema to the copyright industries.But lately Time Warner has gotten a clue. (The tiny image in the corner of the logo at right, by the way, is a flying pig.)The companys cable unit made a deal with FON which lets subscribers offer...
- Tags: Applications, business models, content, General, Internet, marketing, mass market, telecom, wireless
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Contest offers free Wi-Fi phone, FON router, 500 SkypeOut minutes and more
- Contest offers free Wi-Fi phone, FON router, 500 SkypeOut minutes and moreFree?;)
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Routers & switches, Network technology, FON, Wi-Fi phone, SkypeOut, router, Wi-Fi, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-04-13
- Contest offers free Wi-Fi phone, FON router, 500 SkypeOut minutes and more
- Skype is offering a SMC WiFi phone, FON router, 500 SkypeOut minutes and a years worth of free Skype voicemail for $159. Thatd be around $50 off retail. Better yet, Im going to tell you how to win one for free. But first, heres a link...
- Tags: Skype, Promotions, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- What's ahead for mobile
- John Patrick, technologist non pariel is leading a panel that features Joe Ziskin of IBM, Tom Jacobs of Sun Microsystems, and Juergen Urbanski of FON. Jacobs begins by saying the digital rights management DRM, is the third-rail of the mobile market. Today's mobile systems, like the iPod or a phone...
- Tags: FON
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Neither a Linus nor a Bill be...?
- FON's getting a ton of coverage today, and deservedly so. It's a bold project to create a vast, indeed global, shared Wi-Fi network. Founder Martin Varsavsky's blog posting about the company's raising funds from some big names in Net companies and among VCs is at the swirling vortex of an...
- Tags: FON, access point
- Blog posts 2006-02-06
- Google, Skype and FON
- Google and Skype have said they will be helping fund FON -- a global WI-FI network that is comprised of Linus, Bill and Alien users. Right now, FON only has software available for "Linus" users -- those who can connect to networks created by other Linus members for free...
- Tags: FON
- Blog posts 2006-02-05
- And we'll have FON, FON FON: Skype, Google to help fund global WiFi network
- Skype, Google, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital have invested over $21M in worldwide WiFI community Fon to build a global WiFi network. The goal: one million hotspots by 2010. "There is perhaps no more important goal for the industry than helping to make broadband Internet access available...
- Tags: Fon
- Blog posts 2006-02-05
Additional Resources
- Font Fitting Room Standard 3.2.2 (Windows)
- Font Fitting Room is a preview and management tool for both installed and uninstalled fonts, with full character map and multilingual name property support. It lets you view, inventory and manage fonts. Font Fitting Room handles the most popular font types used on PC today, allows you to add them...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Font, ApoliSoft, Font Fitting Room
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Easy WiFi Network (Mobile)
- Easy WiFi gives you free access to the world's largest WiFi network. The application shows you a map of locations, and signs you into hotspots automatically when you're in range. You can also personalize Easy WiFi to include your own hotspot accounts, to get maps and automated access everywhere you...
- Tags: HotSpot, Mobile, Network, Wi-Fi Network, Devicescape Software, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility
- Software downloads 2009-10-21
- Easy Wi-Fi 3.0.53 (Mac)
- Devicescape Easy Wi-Fi automates the tedious process of signing in at Wi-Fi hotspots which need you to type your username and password on a web page. Tell Easy Wi-Fi your username and password details once, and thereafter your logins are completely automated, even across all roaming partners. Now access is...
- Tags: Provider, Apple Macintosh, Devicescape Software, Devicescape Easy Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility
- Software downloads 2009-04-30
- Easy Wi-Fi for S60 (Mobile)
- Devicescape Easy Wi-Fi automates the tedious process of signing in at Wi-Fi hotspots which need you to type your username and password on a web page. Tell Easy Wi-Fi your username and password details once, and thereafter your logins are completely automated, even across all roaming partners. Now access is...
- Tags: Mobile, Devicescape Software, Devicescape Easy Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility
- Software downloads 2009-04-01
- Dial!Fritz 1.3 (Mac)
- Dial!Fritz is the Call Manager for the Mac, in connection with the Fritz!Box Fon of AVM. Incoming callings are displayed at the Mac with caller details from the Address Book if these are missing, it tries to get the name by reverse search. With Dial!Fritz you have besides the possibility...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Dial!Fritz, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-10-17
- iFonnector 1a2 (Mac)
- With iFonnector, you can enjoy Fon network very easily. iFonnector scan for Fonera networks and log you with your Fon username and password.
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network, Username, iDeV Softwares, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-05-14
- Is wireless mesh a game-changer?
- Is wireless mesh a game-changer?*huge* potentialThe future of networking is not by using networks that are controlled by a select few, but by alrge scale networks distributed over many owners interconnecting with each other.Telecomms have managed to keep the wire to themselves, and paid handsomely to keep the likes of...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, wireless, game-changer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- HandyWi 1.2 (Mobile)
- HandyWi helps your to discover and connect to private and public Wi-Fi hotspots on your mobile phone. Application is designed to work with any 802.11a/b/c/g hotspots including public WLAN like FON (world largest Wi-Fi network), BTOpenzone, The Cloud, Orange, or Japan Telecom. This version is the first release on CNET...
- Tags: Mobile, UAB TeleSoftas, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-04-02
- With friends like these... how can Seesmic fail?
- Having secured $5.5 million of funding from investment group Atomico (Skype's Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis and co.), Loic Le Meur admits he didn't need the money. And yet he's enlisted a further twelve individual backers for his new startup Seesmic -- which has been described as "Twitter for video" --...
- Tags: Board, Connection, Image, Investor, Seesmic, Pendants, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Is it ethical to turn on wireless security for an open access point?
- Is it ethical to turn on wireless security for an open access point?Really?Ethical and legal are two completely different distinctions...no one is mincing words.If you don't think so, you are just plain wrong.its ppl like youthat just dont want a trend like this to catch on...so you can download all...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Is it Ethical, open access point, wireless security, wireless, access point, IS IT
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- News to know: XP SP3; IE7; RIM shines; RIAA's victory
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases beta of XP SP3 to Vista, Windows Server testers. Internet Explorer 7 update: Now WGA-free. Ryan Naraine: MS Patch Tuesday: 7 bulletins coming, 4 critical. Sun issues patch for 'highly critical' Java...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, RIAA, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Social Networking, Sales Force Management, Security, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
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