UK Pubs Get Wi-Fi
News Though most of The Cloud's hot spots will be operated out of pubs, Inspired is developing its relationship with Leisure Link, which manages coin-operated machines in all kinds of premises. A company best-known for connecting machines in bingo halls...
[March 6, 2003, 15:38]
London Gets Monster Wi-Fi Hot Spot
Talkback The 3 km hotzone, providing free email access both outside and within over 100 cafes, pubs and restaurants, mobile workforce VPN access, and a council information landing page, among a number of services, was a collaboration between Bristol City...
[December 1, 2004, 18:28]
Wi-Fi Market Gets Divine Intervention
News Between BT and The Cloud, hot spots are available in many hotels, airports, pubs and open spaces in city centres. A former chief executive of O2 has founded a company that aims to aggregate the UK's Wi-Fi hot spots.
[December 21, 2006, 15:34]
Wi-Fi Cloud Could Be Silver Lining For Rural Broadband
News Many of these Wi-Fi hot spots will be based in pubs, as Inspired Broadcast Networks is planning to connect its wireless equipment to gaming machines that already have a broadband connection. The company that has just launched the most ambitious...
[March 24, 2003, 12:12]
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. The proliferation of wireless networks across the UK received another boost on Monday, with news that Wi-Fi operator The Cloud has...
[September 8, 2003, 17:30]
Wi-Fi Trousers, Edible Phones And Mobiles For Lefties
News Having got the hang of installing Wi-Fi in typical venues like pubs and hotels, The Cloud is moving into the exciting field of wireless-enabled trousers. Is that a Wi-Fi access point in your pocket? What's more likely -- UK prisoners being given...
[April 1, 2004, 14:10]
Britain Hottest In Europe For Wi-Fi
News Many of these Wi-Fi hot spots will be based in pubs, as Inspired Broadcast Networks is planning to connect its wireless equipment to gaming machines that already have a broadband connection. The study from research firm Gartner estimates that...
[August 13, 2003, 12:50]
Wi-Fi: Getting More For Your Money
News Wireless hot spots have been popping up in cities, towns and even rural pubs over the last couple of years. T-Systems, a division of Deutsche Telekom, is pushing forward an ambitious plan to unite half the world's Wi-Fi hot spots under its banner.
[July 9, 2004, 17:10]
Brewer Puts Wi-Fi On Tap
News Kent's drinkers can now get surfing as well as getting a Spitfire ale -- Shepherd Neame, Britain's oldest brewer, has decided to open Wi-Fi hot spots in 15 of its pubs. Telabria, who will be providing Shepherd Neame's Wi-Fi network, launched a...
[September 7, 2004, 16:35]
The Week In Review: Fighting Back Against Spam
News A company best known for connecting machines in bingo halls, motorway service stations and bookies is launching a 3,000-site Wi-Fi network in UK pubs, the biggest rollout of the wireless LAN technology so far in Europe.
[March 7, 2003, 13:26]
Digital Jukebox Will Use Broadband To Storm Pubs
News Thousands of pubs will soon be offering customers the chance to use the latest device to fuse high-speed Internet access and digital music -- the broadband-enabled jukebox. Thousands of models of the digital jukebox should be rolled out across...
[November 24, 2003, 16:50]
Press Release: Elite Devices Partners With Vonage & The Cloud And Looks Forward
Forum These include all major UK airports, First Great Western train stations, Coffee Republic outlets, Little Chef cafes, Swallow Hotels, as well as over 4,000 pubs and regional hotels across the country. Vonage users will access The Cloud’s network via...
[July 10, 2006, 13:56]
UK's First WiMax Network Rolls Out
News Telabria already has already put its footprint in Kent's wireless soil by putting Wi-Fi hot spots into Kent's Shepherd Neame-owned pubs to try and push up rural usage of broadband. Networking company Telabria is building the WiMax backhaul...
[November 5, 2004, 13:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I shall have to spend some time in the Hercules, the Old King's Head, the Hobgoblin and the other fine pubs along the Technology Mile, rigorously profiling the throughput and latency characteristics of the network.
[August 25, 2006, 19:20]
Boingo, Said Apple
News The company's network covers 12,000 hot spots from roaming partners such as Wayport and Surf & Sip, allowing British users to surf in areas as diverse as the British Library, Caffé Nero coffee shops or Wetherspoon's pubs -- nearly 4,000 locations...
[January 11, 2005, 10:25]
Lampposts To Provide Location-based Services?
News It is planning to install flash memory inside the lampposts, and store information about local pubs, coffee shops and retail outlets. But Last Mile's business plan could be threatened by other location-based services that are being developed, and...
[March 23, 2005, 16:55]
The Pub's The Hub For Community Broadband
News A wireless broadband service launched this month is attempting to use a combination of village pubs and mesh networking to close Britain’s broadband divide. Several pubs in Kent have tested the system, and Baker says it's now ready for wider...
[April 6, 2004, 16:05]
Community Broadband Gets Royal Approval
News Buckfastleigh already has six public access wireless networks operating, three of which are based at pubs. There, he used a laptop to surf the Web using the pub's 2.4GHz Wi-Fi hot spot before tucking into lunch.
[October 20, 2003, 17:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This lets cafes, pubs and other public places sprout 802.11 wireless access hotspots for their punters -- not that they haven't been, of course, even if the 'public access' part isn't always entirely planned.
[June 14, 2002, 18:19]
Cloud Have Yet Again Got Their Heads Up The Ar*e
Talkback of their hotspots are pubs! Wow, and shame about the titanic! This software was out years ago, it was called Access Manager and BT gave it away on their BT Openzone website, they since revised it and now called mobile express - and still free as I...
[May 12, 2008, 9:30]
