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Hot Spots Heat Up In Asia Pacific
News Market scepticism hasn't dampened industry fervour in Asia-Pacific for rolling out public wireless-access points, known as hot spots, nor has it put brakes on user subscriptions, according to a study by analysts IDC.
[December 5, 2003, 8:50]
Wi-Fi Week: Should All Hot Spots Be Free?
News Broadscape runs a number of "virtually free" hot spots for the Benugo's sandwich chain, where customers who spend a couple of pounds on their food and drink get 30 minutes of free Wi-Fi access. Anyone visiting one of its 1,700 Openzone Wi-Fi hot...
[January 27, 2004, 14:10]
US Airports To Get Wi-Fi Hot Spots
News T-Mobile USA said on Wednesday that it would set up wireless "hot spots" for business travellers in airport lounges across the United States. Availability of a reliable, fast connection in prime airline locations hits the 'sweet spots' for the...
[October 30, 2002, 15:54]
Library Trial Puts Wi-Fi Hot Spots On The Books
News The DTI has put its plan to roll out Wi-Fi hot spots to libraries across the UK into action. Timms said that if the trial is a success, he would like to see Wi-Fi hot spots available at libraries across the country.
[June 16, 2004, 13:25]
Secure Wi-Fi Hot Spots Rolled Out
News IBahn claims it is the first wireless operator to install WPA at all its wireless hot spots, although T-Mobile announced last year that it was making a similar move. We have more than 900 wireless hot spots, each with between one and 80 access...
[October 5, 2005, 13:05]
BT To Roll Out Wi-Fi Hot Spots Across The UK
News Thousands of public places will be turned into wireless broadband hot spots over the next few years as part of BT's move to dominate the mobile data market. The first 20 BT WLAN hot spots should launch this June, and BT has said that is in...
[April 10, 2002, 12:38]
QuickTime Plug-in Hits Hot Spots
News The app-let allows areas in a QuickTime VR scene ('URL Hot Spots') to link directly to graphics, movies, music, text and other Web pages. It also extends QuickTime's functions with addittional playback commands, and supports current versions of...
[September 24, 1996, 15:36]
Government Clears Way For Public Wi-Fi Hot Spots
News The government moved on Monday to end commercial restrictions on the deployment of wireless local-area networks (WLANs), opening the door to the introduction of wireless Internet access "hot spots" around the country.
[June 11, 2002, 14:36]
Wi-Fi Hot Spots To Hit UK
News If implemented, this would allow British companies to operate "Wi-Fi hot spots" in areas such as airports and cafes. The government has been advised to end the restrictions that prevent the commercial use of the 2.4GHz spectrum band that is used by...
[March 7, 2002, 15:04]
UK Gets More Wi-Fi Hot Spots As T-Mobile Expands Starbucks Deal
News Mobile phone network operator T-Mobile will roll out its first Wi-Fi services with hot spots at 56 Starbucks branches across the UK. The popularity of Wi-Fi hot spots is increasing. Last week the Marriott chain said it would double the number of...
[March 6, 2003, 13:41]
UK Gets 'virtually' Free Wireless Hot Spots
News Sandwich bar chain Benugo has established wireless hot spots at two of its London stores, in partnership with wireless communications firm Broadscape. The hot spots will give Benugo customers free high-speed Internet access, if they have a laptop...
[February 17, 2003, 13:58]
Orange Adds More Hot Spots With Cisco
News European mobile-phone provider Orange is using gear from Cisco Systems to add another 1,500 Wi-Fi hot spots to its network in France by the end of 2004, Cisco said on Wednesday. Orange currently has 3,000 hot spots in France, and it expects to bump...
[July 1, 2004, 9:15]
Finding Wi-Fi Hot Spots Just Got Easier
Talkback I have a number of sites which I would be interested in making ' Wi-Fi Hot Spots', how may I do this and who do I contact. Can you please provide contact names and telephone numbers Thank You
[October 7, 2004, 14:45]
Performance Issues With Vertical Handovers - Experiences From GPRS Cellular And WLAN Hot-Spots Integration
White Papers This paper presents an experimental study of inter-network mobility between GPRS Cellular and 802.11b-based WLAN hot-spots, and analyse its impact on active transport TCP flows. Interworking heterogeneous wireless access technologies is an...
[June 23, 2004, 0:00]
Faster Wi-Fi Hot Spots Get Green Light
News As ZDNet UK reported last week, the move will allow commercial network operators to run Wi-Fi hot spots based on 802.11a. The 802.11a standard is significantly faster than 802.11b, which existing hot spots are based on.
[January 21, 2003, 8:19]
BT To Turn Payphones Into Hot Spots
News Tens of thousands of BT's public phone boxes could become Wi-Fi hot spots over the next few years, giving the telco's Openzone service a much larger presence across the UK. If a substantial proportion of these were turned into hot spots -- which BT...
[September 15, 2003, 16:10]
Finding Wi-Fi Hot Spots Just Got Easier
News Connecting to the Internet while away from the office got easier this week as ZDNet UK's map of Wi-Fi hot spots relaunched with a major upgrade. From the Ramada Jarvis hotel in Inverness to the BT Kiosk on Plymouth's Union Street, the ZDNet UK Wi...
[October 30, 2003, 13:40]
Thousands More Wi-Fi Hot Spots For UK
News Earlier this year, The Cloud signed a deal to operate Wi-Fi hot spots at thousands of Britain's pubs and bars. To date, The Cloud has more than 1,800 UK hot spots up and running. The proliferation of wireless networks across the UK received another...
[September 8, 2003, 17:30]
Welcome Can Be Lukewarm At Wi-Fi Hot Spots
News Many of the UK's commercial Wi-Fi hot spots suffer from a lack of trained staff to help users to get connected, according to the findings of a ZDNet UK investigation. Coffee chain Starbucks is at the forefront of the drive to roll out Wi-Fi hot...
[September 1, 2003, 17:55]
Super 3G Hot Spots Due In 2006
Talkback Who are we [consumers] kidding, sure the Raptor F22 is better than the Eurofighter, it can cruise at the speed of sound, but do I get to use it - No! It all costs money, the speeds are too slow now but even with an increased do they [mobile...
[May 4, 2005, 23:01]
