DeFi's VoIP Offering: Flat Rate, Worldwide, and Integrated 1 day ago
Startup VoIP provider DeFi makes big claims, but delivers worldwide calling from a smartphone for $40 or $50 per month: DeFi has a very stripped down business model designed to appeal to a specifi .......
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SNCF Promises Fleetwide Service for TGV Lines by 2010 1 day ago
SNCF in France says they'll install Internet service on their entire TGV fleet by 2010: We've seen this promise before, so excuse me if I'm a wee bit dubious about the French train operator SNCF's .......
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Virgin Announces Launch Schedule 2 days ago
Virgin America has formally announced their in-flight Internet launch and plans: Virgin put out the news a few weeks ago that they'd have a press event flight on 22-November to show off their in-f .......
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Dying Services for Those Who Follow Such Things 2 days ago
Are you noticing that hosted services are starting to disappear? Me, too: I haven't launched a new blog in some time, but was motivated to start up ItDied.com recently after receiving about one em .......
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Boingo Takes over Washington State Ferries 7 days ago
Boingo adds biggest U.S. ferry system to network: On the heels of acquiring the Opti-Fi set of airport Wi-Fi networks from Parsons and ARINC, Boingo Wireless has purchased Parsons's separate busine .......
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Autonet Mobile Reviewed 7 days ago
The in-car Internet system gets reviews: Autonet is packaging a car-oriented router that combines a cell data modem and subscription with a Wi-Fi gateway. The device costs $500 and plans are $30 pe .......
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St. Louis Park Settles with Arinc over Failed Network 8 days ago
First, it was the poles; then the performance; then the lawsuit: Now, the settlement. The city of St. Louis Park, Minn., wanted to build a city-owned Wi-Fi network that would cope with the problem .......
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Starbucks Adds New Way to Get Free Wi-Fi 9 days ago
Starbucks has launched its Gold card, a paid membership with Wi-Fi included: The Starbucks Gold card was in testing for some time in Seattle--the outlet near my office has had a Gold logo in the w .......
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Wee-Fi: Houston's Burst Bubbles; BuyAnotherCupYouCheapskate 9 days ago
Houston, we have a problem: While the city reports its Wi-Fi-connected parking meters work great doubling as Wi-Fi hotspots downtown , their much-ballyhooed "bubbles" efforts to unwire housing proj .......
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BellSouth, AT&T Block Wi-Fi Networking News 9 days ago
If you subscribe to this list via email, and are an AT&T or BellSouth customer: AT&T and its BellSouth division have decided I'm some kind of problem as an email list owner. If you receive Wi-Fi Ne .......
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WEP More Broken, Too 10 days ago
WEP in 24,000 packets: I forgot to mention in all the hubbub about the WPA flaw discovered by two German researchers last week that they also combined a variety of WEP-cracking techniques to reduc .......
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Wee-Fi: 3.65 GHz Webinar, Meru's Virtual Wi-Fi Ports 11 days ago
The open-license 3.65 GHz band could be a great opportunity for startups: The band is available in a good hunk of the U.S. under a licensing regime that allows anyone to obtain a license, and provi .......
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Airport News: Boingo Buys Opti-Fi; FreeFi Adds Oakland 11 days ago
Boingo Wireless acquires Opt-Fi Networks and its 25 airports: Boingo already operates 30 airports (mostly in North America) as part of its Concourse Communications networks. The purchase of Opti-F .......
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WPA Not Cracked, But Still Vulnerable 12 days ago
WPA isn't as broken as reported: If you read the coverage early this week on two German researchers' paper on a vulnerability in Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), the weaker of two encryption .......
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Wayport Acquisition Puts AT&T at Top; Boingo Still Has Leverage 14 days ago
Wayport acquisition by AT&T makes me go whoompf: Yesterday's announcement that AT&T would purchase hotspot operator Wayport for $275m in cash gave me pause for reflection. I started covering the Wi .......
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Don't Panic over WPA Flaw, But Do Pay Attention 14 days ago
The flaw in WPA is minor but important, and won't affect home users or most networks (yet): I spoke yesterday to Eric Tews, one of the co-authors of a paper covering a WPA flaw that he'll present n .......
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Breaking News: AT&T Buys Wayport; WPA's TKIP Cracked?; Virgin America Sets Launch Date 15 days ago
It's always in threes: Three big pieces of Wi-Fi news today, folks, and I'll post more information as I have it. Wayport is being purchased for $275m by AT&T: This is a purely logical move, bec .......
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Wee-Fi: $3b in Wi-Fi; Meraki Offers $10K 1 Sq Mi Kit 16 days ago
Wi-Fi chipset sales will top $3b in 2008: So says ABI Research, which has a good track record on analysis and estimation. This number does not include anything but Wi-Fi chips and a few associated .......
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FCC Slams Out a Pile of News: White Spaces, Sprint/Clearwire, Verizon/Alltel 17 days ago
Because we didn't have enough on our minds on election day, the FCC met and made three relatively massive decisions: Let's start with white spaces. I have been avoiding posting too much about the t .......
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UWB Retreats? 18 days ago
Ultrawideband's future as personal area networking technology seems dim: With leading UWB chipmaker WiQuest going out of business last week, with very few devices on the market two years after UWB .......
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