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Beware the Skype-iPhone hype-fest
Blog Skype takes voice traffic and routes it over a Wi-Fi hotspot, or your home or office Wi-Fi network. There’s a battle heating up in the burgeoning voice-over-wifi (VoW) space. On the one hand you have Skype, which has just launched its eponymous app...
[April 3, 2009, 18:03]
SP1 all pluses
Member Review Faster Wifi connections - The time taken to detect and connect to a known hotspot is significantly improved. I was a bit nervous installing SP1 beta on my new laptop as there were plenty of posts on the Microsoft SP1 forums with issues ranging from...
[February 13, 2008, 9:39]
How to defeat the wardriving spamlords
Talkback Any hotel general manager with common sense could understand the trouble they would be in if their door locks didn’t work and a guest’s property was stolen while they were away, so why can’t people understand that hotspot users expect the same...
[October 13, 2004, 16:52]
T-Mobile launches Wi-Fi PDA, but not in UK
News Thanks to integrated W-LAN technology, the MDA III allows very fast data exchange via wireless local networks, or at T-Mobile and T-Com HotSpot locations," said the company, adding that battery capacity has been increased by about 25 percent...
[June 29, 2004, 18:55]
Council flats get broadband via power line
News Not only is Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council hoping to use the scheme to bridge the digital divide, it also intends to use the resulting hotspot area to attract businesses to "a part of north Solihull designated a deprived area", it said on...
[May 21, 2008, 16:26]
BT revamps its business broadband
News Other features within BT Business Total Broadband include 250 Openzone minutes per month, reflecting the ongoing rollout of BT's wireless hotspot programme across major UK city centres. BT has launched a new broadband package for its small-business...
[January 23, 2007, 10:10]
Tech helps UK fraud reach a 12-year high
News London and the south-east represented the main fraud hotspot, representing 65 percent by value, or £655m, and more than 35 percent of the reported cases. Fraud in the UK hit a 12-year high last year as criminals increasingly turned to technology.
[February 5, 2008, 8:48]
UK firm to unveil wall-socket PC
Talkback The unit just clips into the socket and can be removed / swapped for a range of other devices (RJ45 socket, 4/6 port managed switch, wireless hotspot etc.using a special security key. Seee www.jackpc.co.uk for more stats, prices and UK purchasing...
[June 1, 2006, 19:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Everyone becomes their own little hotspot, and ad-hoc networks fan out across a city like umbrellas opening in the rain. Tuesday 11/6/2002 And it came to pass that the government did not spend the entire week being evil and/or galumphing idiots...
[June 14, 2002, 18:19]
HP ProCurve adds in 802.11n wireless
News Colubris's network products were well-established in hotels and other hotspot providers, but the company had not got into the enterprise market. HP ProCurve has launched an 802.11n Wi-Fi access point and has revitalised its wireless LAN range with...
[November 11, 2008, 17:18]
Pipex moves closer to WiMax launch
News The Stratford trials showed that Wi-Fi-enabled WiMax receivers can successfully create what Currier called "a small-scale metro zone" — not dissimilar to a hotspot — meaning such equipment is ready for market, at least as a fixed-broadband...
[July 17, 2006, 17:15]
Hackers attack IT conference
News Initially, they labelled the hotspot "Free_Internet_Access", then "BTOpenzone" and then "T-Mobile". Hackers infiltrated an IT exhibition last week and attacked delegates' computers with a new type of wireless attack.
[April 25, 2005, 13:10]
Inprise releases code for Linux developers
News Features in the new release include the Java 2 JDK 1.3 Hotspot client virtual machine and an eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based project manager. Inprise has announced plans to release the source code of its Kylix Linux rapid application...
[November 17, 2000, 13:59]
Iraq reaps ironic wireless rewards
Blog The irony rings similarly true for Iraq, which is concentrating on trouble hotspot Basrah as the first install for its network. It struck me today with great irony how Iraq is getting its own Wimax network over the next few months.
[November 23, 2006, 16:18]
Library trial puts Wi-Fi hot spots on the books
News I'm very keen on the idea that every public library should be a Wi-Fi hotspot," he said. The DTI has put its plan to roll out Wi-Fi hot spots to libraries across the UK into action. Speaking at the Mobile Enterprise conference in London's Earls...
[June 16, 2004, 13:25]
Qualcomm goes global with Gobi
News We are leveraging Qualcomm's expertise in multi-mode wireless chipsets to bring unparalleled connectivity to notebook users, who can now be confident they can instantly access the internet without searching for a hotspot — today.
[October 24, 2007, 17:18]
Sun speeds Java for mobile phones
News Monty was written in 18 months by the team that wrote the HotSpot virtual machine that runs on current versions of Java for servers and for desktop computers, said Rich Green, Sun vice president of Java and XML, in an interview.
[March 27, 2002, 9:03]
School WiFi panic provokes debate
Blog I have to say I agree with that, as the rollout of hotspot and outdoor municipal WiFi (and eventually Wimax) covers ever greater physical areas. So there seem to be two camps on the radiation/WiFi debate : those who want to deploy and use the...
[November 22, 2006, 12:39]
Intel senses united wireless future in 802.21
News The goal is to provide seamless network connectivity across a wide range of networks, so users will move from hotspot to cellular connection without noticing. In a pre-show briefing to international press on Monday, Intel discussed developments...
[August 23, 2005, 16:55]
Executive Tramp List 2008
Blog Wifi account - T-Mobile Unlimited Hotspot Plan,for visiting major cities a real must. I travel to and for for work and am sometimes out for over 2 weeks. Every year I take stock of what I carry. Here's this year's model of my on the road rucksack...
[August 18, 2008, 9:21]
