Wee-Fi
Wee-Fi: Intel's Wi-Fi PAN Released; Eye-Fi iPhone App
Intel releases driver update to create simultaneous peer-to-peer Wi-Fi network and local area network connection: Intel started talking about its Cliffside project months ago, and EE Times reports tha ....... read more
1 day ago
Wee-Fi: Bullet Train-Fi, Curve-Fi (No 3G)
Japanese bullet trains will gain the Internet service originally promised in 2006: The service wasn't delayed, but tied to new trains arriving for the Tokyo to Osaka line. The 270 km/hr line will offe ....... read more
21 days ago
Wee-Fi: Cities That Work, Boingo iPhone App
The Wall Street Journal takes a brief look at four cities for which Wi-Fi is working: I wrote a piece for Ars Technica a few weeks ago that's a superset of the cities mentioned here: Minneapolis, Okla ....... read more
Mon,
08 Dec 2008
Wee-Fi: Virgin America Formal Launch, Heathrow Coach-Fi, Laptop Recovery
Virgin America formally launches: Last week, Virgin America offered free Wi-Fi on its single Internet-equipped aircraft, My Other Ride's a Spaceship. Today, the service goes commercial ($10 for flight ....... read more
Tue,
02 Dec 2008
Wee-Fi: News from Meraki, Violet, Qualcomm
Meraki offers wall plug, solar unit, apartment package: Meraki has added two products to its line up. A wall plug ($179) can be screwed into an outlet's center screw hole for theft prevention and stab ....... read more
Tue,
18 Nov 2008
Wee-Fi: Houston's Burst Bubbles; BuyAnotherCupYouCheapskate
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 projects ....... read more
Wed,
12 Nov 2008
Wee-Fi: 3.65 GHz Webinar, Meru's Virtual Wi-Fi Ports
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 provider ....... read more
Mon,
10 Nov 2008
Wee-Fi: $3b in Wi-Fi; Meraki Offers $10K 1 Sq Mi Kit
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 com ....... read more
Wed,
05 Nov 2008
Wee-Fi: iPhones Get Free Wi-Fi; Another Loiterer Arrested
AT&T finally gets off the dime--sorry, quarter--and opens its Home network to iPhone subscribers: AT&T had promised some kind of Wi-Fi deal for its legions of iPhone subscribers for more than a year, ....... read more
Thu,
30 Oct 2008
Wee-Fi: Enterprise 802.11n Rated; Au. U Illegal Use-Fi; Micro-Fi: Shorts on Cities
Enterprise 802.11n gear has up to 10 times throughput of previous generation: Network World put four equipment makers' enterprise 802.11n gear through its paces, and found enormous improvements over 8 ....... read more
Mon,
27 Oct 2008
Wee-Fi: Boingo Ups Count, Nationals-Fi, Free AU Mickey D-Fi
Boingo says they've broken 100,000 (103,749, to be exact): The Wi-Fi aggregator signed up 2,600 hotspots from Telefonica in Spain and Argentina, while sharing 7,000 of their locations with customers o ....... read more
Wed,
22 Oct 2008
Wee-Fi: Quantenna In Depth, WalkingHotSpot, T-Mobile's 3G Footprint, Devicescape's Easy Wi-Fi. Boingo on Moto Q 11
In-depth on Quantenna: For Ars Technica, a great technology site for which I recently started a regular writing relationship, I wrote up a long interview with Quantenna's founder, in which I examine m ....... read more
Mon,
20 Oct 2008
Wee-Fi: Broadband Test Fairness, Network Magic 5, Manassas BPL, Wi-Fi Thermostat
Virgin Media says broadband speed tests underperform: Sure, an ISP would like to tell you that the numbers produced by speed tests aren't accurate, that they undermeasure, but there's definitely truth ....... read more
Thu,
16 Oct 2008
Wee-Fi: Cablevision Expands, Burbank May Go Free
Cablevision doubles Wi-Fi network area: Cablevision continues its inexorable march to install Wi-Fi for its cable customers across its territory. The company said this morning that they had installed ....... read more
Wed,
15 Oct 2008
Wee-Fi: Mass. Train-Fi, iPhone App Location Awareness
Massachusetts expands trial of train-Fi: The state's train authority will spend $1.4m to expand a trial program for Wi-Fi on certain state commuter lines to all 258 coaches. The program's formal launc ....... read more
Fri,
10 Oct 2008
Wee-Fi: Firefox Geolocation
Mozilla releases early version of geolocator technology: Geode, an add-on for Firefox 3.0 from Mozilla Labs, uses Skyhook Wireless's Wi-Fi positioning system to provide approximate coordinates for you ....... read more
Wed,
08 Oct 2008
Wee-Fi: Delta Filters, Smart-Fi, Abandonment
Delta has mid-air reversal on filtering Web content: Delta said it wouldn't filter its in-flight Internet system (not yet launched), but now says it will have a short list of inappropriate sites that ....... read more
Mon,
06 Oct 2008
Wee-Fi: Phila-Fi Developments, Cablevision Hires
Philadelphia network has 100,000 monthly sessions: NAC, which took over Phila.'s network from EarthLink, has assumed full control at the end of a 3-month transition period, Wi-Fi Planet reports. The c ....... read more
Thu,
02 Oct 2008
Wee-Fi: Broadcom, Skyhook; GSM Mobile BroadBranding; Bandwidth Caps; Dead-Fi Zones
Broadcom adds Skyhook positioning to portfolio: Broadcom already has a variety of tools for allowing its chips to determine position quickly, including a ground-based system that tracks GPS satellite ....... read more
Tue,
30 Sep 2008
Wee-Fi: Bidding for Wireless Service; BT Disperses Cloud
Google plays bridge with wireless contracts in patent: Bidding on contracts isn't just for companies answering proposals or contract bridge players. Google has filed for a patent in which a wireless d ....... read more
Fri,
26 Sep 2008