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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

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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