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BT Creates Nationwide Wi-Fi Sharing Community
News The collaboration between the two companies also raises the possibility of a comprehensive global Wi-Fi sharing network — with the blessing of ISPs. BT and FON have finally confirmed their long-expected tie-in, thus creating the largest Wi-Fi...
[October 4, 2007, 10:49]
BT Keeps Quiet On Wi-Fi Sharing Talks
News BT is refusing to comment on reports that it is in talks with the Spanish Wi-Fi sharing network FON. The telco has recently started promoting the use of Wi-Fi as part of its Fusion fixed/mobile broadband and mobile package.
[February 5, 2007, 12:46]
Wi-Fi Figures Reveal Britain's Sharing Side
News Jon Hurry, director of consumer internet services at BT said in a statement: "It's great to see BT Total Broadband customers joining forces to set up a people's wi-fi network across the UK. BT has been instrumental in creating Broadband Britain...
[June 6, 2008, 8:55]
TunA: Local Music Sharing With Handheld Wi-Fi Devices
White Papers Implemented on Wi-Fi enabled Pocket PC iPaqs, the application can be seen as part of a large-scale case study on ad-hoc wireless networks, developed in order to validate a theoretical and user-centred research methodology on innovation in the ICT...
[January 11, 2006, 0:01]
A Legal Way To Get Free Wi-fi Access
Talkback FON users generally use my Internet access during the day when I am not online and I have no download limit so sharing is no problem. I share my Internet access with other FON users. In return I can piggyback on other FON users systems worldwide.
[November 16, 2007, 10:29]
Bulldog Shares Broadband Over Wi-Fi
Talkback To sell shared broadband the user must still get a good speed for what they are paying even if they are sharing the connection. To share the bandwidth equally the host access point should be allowed to have at least a 2mb line otherwise the host...
[November 5, 2003, 12:23]
Social Services Turns To Wi-Fi
News Information sharing is part of a new culture," said Nakhimoff. Social workers are using wireless technology to speed up communications on the front line. Barnet Council's Children and Families Service has rolled out PDAs to 240 social workers, O2...
[August 31, 2005, 16:30]
Starbucks Under Wi-Fi Attack
Blog One amusing episode from yesterday at the Wireless Event was Robert Lang of Fon, the Wi-Fi sharing "community", revealing that his company is encouraging Foneros (people with Fon routers) who live near a Starbucks to aim their signals straight...
[May 25, 2007, 9:16]
BT's Wi-Fi Lets Go Of The Cloud
News BT is claiming that this shortfall will be mitigated by the roughly 140,000 users who opened up their routers into effective hotspots following BT's deal with the Wi-Fi-sharing community Fon. BT Openzone's Wi-Fi roaming deal with The Cloud will end...
[September 29, 2008, 17:02]
Does Wi-Fi Security Matter?
News Microsoft's chief privacy advisor for Europe, Caspar Bowden, said there seemed to be a consensus among security experts that having a Wi-Fi network open to sharing has positive uses, but warned that people could not rely on WEP encryption if they...
[June 27, 2006, 13:00]
US Telcos Weigh Wi-Fi Roaming
News Sprint PCS and AT&T Wireless are negotiating on whether to let each other's Wi-Fi subscribers roam between their two networks, a Sprint PCS executive said on Monday. The partnership would allow subscribers of AT&T Wireless Wi-Fi service to use the...
[July 22, 2003, 8:09]
China Urged To Follow The Wi-Fi Herd
News An industry body in the United States is pleading with Chinese authorities to ditch its proprietary Wi-Fi specification, saying the plan could impede the country's technological progress and breach previously agreed trade concessions.
[February 26, 2004, 10:10]
Cable Companies Cracking Down On Wi-Fi
News Broadband providers in the US are cracking down on popular Wi-Fi networks, threatening to cut service to customers who set up the inexpensive wireless systems and allow others to freely tap into their Internet access.
[July 9, 2002, 13:11]
Home Wi-Fi 'crucial' For Wireless Take-up
News The implementation of wireless home networks is key to achieving a significant take-up of Wi-Fi, operators now believe. Clive Mayhew-Begg, chief zones officer for Myzones, told an audience at The Wireless LAN Event at London's Olympia conference...
[May 22, 2003, 16:30]
Want Wi-Fi With That?
News The company on Saturday officially launched its Schlotzsky's Deli Cool Cloud network, which will allow people with Wi-Fi wireless setups on their computers or handhelds to get online for free. Wi-Fi, also known as 802.11b, is a technology that...
[November 11, 2002, 8:44]
T-Mobile Ties Wi-Fi Access To Mobile Broadband
News T-Mobile has folded access to its Wi-Fi hotspots into premium versions of its mobile broadband package, Web'n'Walk. Those two tiers, which are priced from £12.50 per month on top of the standard Flext contract, will now come with free access to T...
[January 10, 2008, 13:16]
Wi-Fi - Racing To The Next Level
News How fast do you think Wi-Fi transmission rates can reasonably become by the year 2005? Throughout the 1990s, the Dutch native kept at his labour of love, which earned him the sobriquet of father of Wi-Fi.
[December 9, 2002, 7:55]
Windows Wi-Fi Attack Discovered
News A Windows feature that automatically searches for Wi-Fi connections can be exploited by hackers, a security researcher has warned. Experts recommended companies deploy a security policy, if one isn't already in place: "Any organisation deploying a...
[January 16, 2006, 15:55]
Wi-Fi Anonymity Tempts Pirates
News Wi-Fi access points don't, and that makes it difficult for the RIAA or anyone else to pinpoint exactly who is doing what using these nodes on the Net. Wi-Fi access, meanwhile, is one of the fastest-growing segments of the technology marketplace today.
[July 16, 2003, 13:22]
Stereos Plug Into Wi-Fi
News NetGear unveiled a Wi-Fi device on Tuesday that is designed to retrofit stereos so they can connect to wireless networks. The router connects to an external hard drive over a USB 2.0 connection and allows client devices on the router's Wi-Fi...
[January 7, 2004, 9:25]
