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AT&T completes Wayport purchase; Almost done with Starbucks Wi-Fi rollout

AT&T completes Wayport purchase; Almost done with Starbucks Wi-Fi rolloutStarbucks sucks at WiFiEvery locally-owned, independent coffee shop that I visit offers FREE WiFi. Starbucks wants money.What a [bad] joke.

Tags: Wireless LANs, Starbucks Corp., Starbucks Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Wayport, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

AT&T completes Wayport purchase; Almost done with Starbucks Wi-Fi rollout

AT&T said Friday that it has closed its Wayport acquisition, which allows it to build out its Wi-Fi network. In addition, the telecom giant said that it "is nearing completion" of its project to convert Starbucks locations to AT&T's Wi-Fi service. With Wayport, AT&T will have roughly...

Tags: Wayport, AT&T Corp., Starbucks Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-12

AT&T adds value to iPhone with expanded Web connectivity

One of the common themes at Dreamforce and Web 2.0 Summit, both in San Francisco this week, is that companies that add value to their products and services during this economic downturn are the ones that will be best-positioned when the country finally gets its finances back in order. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Wayport, AT&T Corp., Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Channel Management, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Wayport, McDonald's cook up hot-spot deal

Wayport, McDonald's cook up hot-spot dealNow we can realllllly get fat!!!!Sit in mickey dee's brosing the net and slamming whoppers, were done for.How many Laptops do you see in McDonalds?I mean it's just no the crowd for that. Mom and the kids mostly. An why would you put you...

Tags: Notebooks, Wayport, McDonald's Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-05-25

Wayport fries competition for McDonald's bid

Wayport fries competition for McDonald's bidThis a nightmareWith more and more of these hot-spot zones opening up that means more laptops conecting to untrusted networks during off hours or time out of the office. This means more exporsure to viruses!How about this?Try serving edible and tasty food rather than supply...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Food & Beverage, food, Wi-Fi, McD, Wayport, McDonald's Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-04-13

Additional Resources

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3

Photos and image samples: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3While it might be overstating the case to say the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3's Wi-Fi implementation drove me to tears, I can state without hyperbole that it terribly disappointed me. When I was first briefed on the camera, I had high hopes that with...

Tags: Keyboards, Wireless LANs, Wireless and Mobility, Wi-Fi, Sony Corp., camera, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3, Sony Cyber-Shot

Product reviews 2009-03-16

News to know: Google vs. Mozilla; SaaS renewals; Microsoft; Cloud computing

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google delivers another blow to Mozilla WSJ: Google wants its own fast track Google ditching network neutrality? Google: Net neutrality and...

Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-15

Zune Wi-Fi coming to a McDonald's near you

Ronald McDonald, meet your match. Microsoft released today a free software update that will allow users of Zune, the best little media player no one seems to care about, to wirelessly stream and download music from the Zune Marketplace store on the go, tag and purchase songs...

Tags: Microsoft Zune, Wi-Fi, McDonald's Corp., Digital Music, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Strategy, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Eye-Fi's new SD memory cards add geotagging and Wi-Fi to any digital camera

I've been a fan of Eye-Fi's Wi-Fi enabled SD cards since they first came out late last year, so I'm excited to see the company has added two new cards to its product lineup. Here's a rundown of the offerings: Eye-Fi Explore The coolest product of...

Tags: Memory Card, SD Card, Geotagging, Digital Camera, Camera, Skyhook Wireless, Eye-Fi, Wireless LANs, Memory, GPS, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Vonage subscriber-growth slowdown is troubling

If I were Vonage, Id be very concerned about one particular trendline contained in the companys fourth quarter financial report, released yesterday.Only 166,000 new subscribers were added in 4Q 2006, compared to what one analyst- John Hodulik of UBS Investment Research- had previously predicted as a 235,000 gain.Vonage itself...

Tags: General, Vonage

Blog posts 2007-02-16

Skype intros new Wi-Fi phones

Skype intros new Wi-Fi phonesThe question is if they'll have basic web browsing abilityNetgear's phone has been available for over a month, but I haven't bought it for the reason that it does not have a web browser. The reason for this is that you can not sign in to...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Telecom & Utilities, NetGear, Wi-Fi, phone, Wi-Fi phone, web interface, Web, Skype Technologies S.A.

Discussion threads 2006-07-22

And now for the worst Wi-Fi hotels

And now for the worst Wi-Fi hotelsHow about Hilton's Doubletree ?I stayed at the Doubletree in Bellevue just this week and they use the WayPort service ... first off, it was definitely not free and cost $9.95 per day. They do not consider 24 hours a day, it is based...

Tags: wireless, Doubletree, lobby, Hilton Hotels Corp., Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2006-03-29

Don't spill that Mint Mocha Chip Frappuccino on your VoIP handset

Colleague Ben Charny reports today that Vonage is test marketing a new Linksys Wi-Fi router that could work with VoIP handsets to enable VoIP over Wi-Fi.Ben points out that current technology makes VoIP over Wi-Fi a difficult proposition on a laptop in most hotspots. You know, multinational coffee giants, huge...

Tags: handset, VoIP, VoIP handset

Blog posts 2005-05-13

Forget 3G. I'll take 4G (aka: Why WiFi is dead)

While the world waits for all of the existing CDMA (ie: Sprint, Verizon) and GPRS-based (ie: Cingular, T-Mobile, most European carriers) networks to be upgraded to broadband-like speeds (a.k.a. "3G"), the folks in the labs at NTT DoCoMo have successfully pushed "cellular" (wireless wide area networks -- WWANs) data rates to 1 Gbps...

Tags: cellco, Wi-Fi

Blog posts 2004-12-17

Sprint in Wi-Fi roaming pact with SBC

Could it be a trend, or just a one-off deal? In what may be one of the first such agreements between two 800-pound telecom gorillas, Sprint and SBC have apparently signed a deal that will allow each other's Wi-Fi customers to roam between the public hotspots that the two operate.  Although details...

Tags: hot spot, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi

Blog posts 2004-08-27

What exactly is this new DNS "hack" you keep hearing about?

For the last few months, I've been hearing about Avaya security researcher Dan Kaminsky and a new DNS exploit DomainCasting that he's been discussing. DomainCasting can be used by a hacker to anonymously tunnel sensitive data through firewalls.  It escapes detection because, like Web traffic, DNS traffic is normally permitted to cross most networks.  Between discussions of it at last week's...

Tags: DNS, DomainCasting

Blog posts 2004-08-05

Would you like Wi-Fi with that?

Would you like Wi-Fi with that?CNET's Brian Cooley talks with Dave Vucina, CEO of Wayport, about launching public Wi-Fi services in 75 McDonald's restaurants in Northern California.

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi

Videos 2003-07-08