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Wi-Fi Access Manager 1.30 (Windows)

Advanced Wireess Technologies provides software solutions to manage Wi-Fi network access for home and small-sized network. Using patent-pending technology, We make Wi-Fi network secure and simple. We are offering a software application to manage your Wi-Fi network, so that you do not have to worry about network security and remember...

Tags: Software, Wi-Fi Access, Network, Wi-Fi Network, Microsoft Windows, Advanced Wireless Technologies, Advanced Wireess Technologies, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Networking

Software downloads 2009-09-22

Apple and AT&T providing free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users and oops... to everyone else as well!

You have to love security through obscurity... A friend of mine on a private mailing list passed me a link to a story on macrumors.com, which was quite interesting.  Apparently, Apple and AT&T has decided to provide free wireless access to iPhone users at places like Starbucks. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Wi-Fi Access, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Starbucks Corp., User Agent, MacRumors, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-01

JiWire providing free WiFi access for iPhone and iPod Touch owners

All of us iPhone owners know that the AT&T EDGE network is a bit poky, especially for web browsing. JiWire just announced free Wi-Fi access across the United States for all iPhone and iPod Touch users. This is an ad-supported program so you will have to view JiWire-supplied ads on...

Tags: Apple iPhone, HotSpot, Wi-Fi Access, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-01-15

Hilton New York: Wi-Fi access and price gouging

Hilton New York: Wi-Fi access and price gougingIf you have to ask the price...I'm sure Hilton's perspective is that anyone who can afford their room rate can afford their Wi-Fi prices. At this point, pretty much the only hotels that charge for Wi-Fi are the premium brands, the ones...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Hilton Hotels Corp., Hilton New York, Wi-Fi access

Discussion threads 2007-05-17

The City of Seattle Attracts More Visitors and Customers to Municipal Parks and Local Businesses by Offering Free Wi-Fi Access Through D-Link Business Class Wireless Solution

The City of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels initiated the creation of a pilot project that would offer free wireless access to the Internet. The intent was to revitalize portions of the community by teaming with local businesses and other community organizations to attract more customers to local business districts, support...

Tags: D-Link Systems, Wi-Fi Access, Park, Wireless Access, Wireless, Home Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Personal Technology

Case studies 2007-04-25

Yahoo! testing Wi-Fi access for Yahoo! Messenger

Yahoo! testing Wi-Fi access for Yahoo! MessengerBetamaxinstead of WiMAX.

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Messenger, Wi-Fi access, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2006-04-20

British Parliament members demand Wi-Fi access

British Parliament members demand Wi-Fi accessGood IdeaI want to give this move a 10 star rating. I think it's the best proposal for the British Parliament.I strongly suggest that Ghana's Parliament takes a cue from this as well as other Parliaments throughout the world.Internet connectivity is no more a...

Tags: Wireless LANs, British Parliament, Wi-Fi access, Wi-Fi, Internet Connectivity

Discussion threads 2006-01-17

Sunlight powers streetlights, Wi-Fi access

Sunlight powers streetlights, Wi-Fi accessHmmm, $5K per street light?The cost of the photovoltic cells large enough to charge a battery for a full night of street light use might be a wee bit expensive. Toss in weather damage, battery replacement/maintenance, etc. and I just don't see anyone jumping on...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Engineering, WIRELESS, street light, cell, Wi-Fi, pole, fixture, Wi-Fi access

Discussion threads 2006-01-05

Pronto Premium SMS Service Gateway for Public Wi-Fi Access

The Pronto Premium SMS Service Gateway enables mobile operators to generate additional revenue by offering a new Premium SMS service for Wi-Fi access. Simply put, Pronto's Premium SMS Service Gateway enables mobile phone users to pay for Wi-Fi access using their mobile phone. The Pronto Premium SMS Service Gateway is...

Tags: Wi-Fi Access, Gateway Inc., Mobile, Pronto Networks, Cell Phone, SMS, Pronto Premium SMS Service Gateway, Wireless LANs, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing

Case studies

Additional Resources

Google Books sued by a pig, cat and dog

LosersThis just underlines how pathetic these lawsuit-hungry companies are in hoping to cash in on what Google has created. They couldn't come up with a business model to monetize these works so they sue someone who has figured it out.Anti-capitalism at its best.4 legs good; 2 legs betterRight, Amazon?Bunch of...

Tags: Strategy, Litigation, KARMA, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Archive.org, Google Book

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source CultureTalk about B & GThe Balkanization and Gerrymandering organizational style of UNIX is the number 1 reason why UNIX never took off like Windoze did. Here's some examples:I worked at FORD on the UNIX server development team. We were responsible for developing...

Tags: Operating systems, open source, Unix, standards

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

Interview: Wired’s Chris Anderson on the ‘free’ business model

Interview: Wired’s Chris Anderson on the ‘free’ business modelYou don't compete with the web?I was really surprised to hear this statement, "We do 8,000 word articles with full-page photographs. We don?t really compete with the Web the same way the book doesn?t compete with the Web." I'm sure you don't...

Tags: Channel management, Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Strategy, Grievous, Wired Inc., Chris Anderson, Web, Linux, software

Discussion threads 2009-02-10

Technology initiatives we should demand from the Obama administration

As much as many of us would like to continue to revel in the day, the inauguration with all of its rock-concert fanfare, pomp and circumstance is over, and it is finally time for the new administration to get to work. The 44th President of the...

Tags: Patient, Barack Obama, Administration, Broadband, Digital Television, TVs, Workforce Management, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Networking, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-21

Evaluation of Multimedia Services in Mobile WiMAX

Mobile WiMAX defines architecture for metropolitan area broadband wireless access networks based on IEEE 802.16e. One of the most important characteristics of Wi-MAX is support of applications with different QoS requirements in terms of delay, jitter and bandwidth. This paper briefly review IEEE 802.16 and the mobile WiMAX network reference...

Tags: Multimedia, Mobile, IEEE, WiMAX, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi

White papers 2008-12-05

Will Microsoft apply 'Vista-Capable' lessons to Win 7 netbooks?

Will Microsoft apply 'Vista-Capable' lessons to Win 7 netbooks?As long as.................when W7 is released, netbooks come with quad cores, 16gb of memory and a nuclear battery then W7 should run like a dreamWhy not a 32 bits SKU for netbooks/legacy PC and 64 bits SKU for other PC ?I think...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, 64-bit, Desktops, Microsoft Corp., SKU, Microsoft Windows Vista, 32-bit

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Remote buffer overflow bug bites Linux Kernel

Remote buffer overflow bug bites Linux KernelSo it ISN'T a kernel bugit's a kernel DRIVER bug. That's akin to a bad video driver in Windows.This is not a Linux problem, it's an NDISWRAPPER problem.You should correct the first line of this article, which reads: "A remote buffer overflow vulnerability...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, LOL!!, Linux, Linux kernel, buffer-overflow bug, buffer-overflow

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

Google Android vulnerable to drive-by browser exploit

Google Android vulnerable to drive-by browser exploit"somewhat limited"?[i]A successful attacker will have access to any information the browser may use, such as cookies used for accessing sites, .....However, they can not control other, unrelated aspects of the phone, such as dialing the phone directly[/i]At least if my phone was dialing,...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Ryan, Google Inc., browser exploit, Google Android, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Followup from Intel on the OLPC debacle

Followup from Intel on the OLPC debacleHow can anyone support Classmate?The Classmate reference design is such a worthless piece of kit, Intel obvioulsy rushed it out the door 6 months after the first prototypes of the OLPC were released over a year and a half ago. Since then the Classmate...

Tags: Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child project, Classmate, Nicholas Negroponte

Discussion threads 2008-01-07

Porting of Flash Player to a Remote Control Device Running Windows CE

The Client is a leading provider of consumer electronics devices. The client was using Flash content as a user interface. The device also had internet access via wi-fiport, and the client needed to be able to play Flash content off the internet. Since there is no publicly available Flash player...

Tags: Macromedia Flash Player, Client, Calsoft Labs, Microsoft Windows CE, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware

Case studies 2008-01-01

Yahoo Answers scarier than Wikipedia

Yahoo Answers scarier than WikipediaWikipedia is the best so farAfter reviewing answers on Yahoo!, they just seem to random about and lead to nowhere, so basically some/most are wrong eventually. Noting that some are just comments like "Who really cares?" providing no answer to the question, hilarious at first, but...

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-12-12