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- 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
- 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
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- Preview: Plusmo Pro Football Live app (updated)
- As you already know I really want a good NFL application for the iPhone. Now that it's NFL season and it would be great to track teams, players and games in progress – especially when you can't be in front of a television. As I've I mentioned...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, NFL, App, Plusmo Pro Football Live, Plusmo NFL App, Games, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?
- What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?That explains it....The client was invisible to the user as a cost-saver, rather the cost savings were apparent to the video distributor. So, how does the client app make itself valuable? Joost had several interesting features besides this P2P media capability, but it also...
- Tags: Joost, desktop client, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?
- The news broke today that Joost, the company which in a lot of ways was on the forefront of rich media, is canning its signature desktop client in favor of a purely web based portal. As a big proponent of desktop applications in general, and especially these hybrid applications which...
- Tags: Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.
- I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...
- Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Service integrators = Ed Tech bargain hunters?
- I'm not entirely enamored of my ISP right now. Their backbone is dated, downtime too frequent, the email interface they provide is kludgy at best, application support for their web hosting is more limited than what you can get from $1.99 a month hosts, and, well, I'm just not...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web Hosting, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- What the fight against cancer really needs
- What the fight against cancer really needsSadly this is where a problem existsCuring cancer would be great on the human level. But it doesn't make good business sense for doctors and pharmaceutical companies that rely on patients to make money. Much like many other diseases, it's more profitable to keep...
- Tags: cure, pharmaceutical company, patient, government
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Wireless Access: What Price Speed
- Wireless Access: What Price SpeedQuick Question.....Why do people still stand for "locking-in" a 2 year contract to do anything with Verizon?No contract, free WIFI and same speed.... seem's like a no-brainer to me.RE: Wireless Access: What Price SpeedAt least here in NYC Metro area they have you coming and...
- Tags: 3G, INTERNET, Wireless LANs, Fios, boro, Verizon Communications Inc., wireless access, Wi-Fi, wireless
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet
- Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful -- and malicious -- botnet. The...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Facebook, Application, Network, DOS, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims
- Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Hardware, Liam Tung ZDNet Australia, rootkit, hypervisor, Joanna Rutkowska, security
- News items 2008-09-05
- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...
- Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Google Chrome already beating Opera
- Google Chrome already beating OperaWaiting for Windows Mobile 6 version... if they can create a version for Windows Mobile to rival safari on iPhone, they'll have me seriously thinking about it.Otherwise, it's just another browser for the desktop by another large conglomerate.Full screen problemI have my task bar on the...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, work-around, Google Inc., Chrome, Google Chrome, Opera Software
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi
- Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum WiFi that will eventually cover the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area. The company says that its wireless networking equipment now...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
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