New free San Francisco Wi-Fi hot spots
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005Wi-Fi provider MetroFi of Mountain View is scheduled to announce today the premiere of three free wireless Internet hot spots in San Francisco.
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Archive for the 'wifi' Category
Google Wins Wi-Fi Lease in Mountain View
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005Google took a giant step into Internet Service Provider territory, as Mountain View California city council unanimously ratified a five-year property lease that Google needs to begin building a wireless network in the city.
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NYC taxis go wireless
Monday, November 14th, 2005NYC taxis prepare to go wireless with their fleet of 12,766 yeloow cabs. Displaying electronic maps, sports scores, news headlines, flight times, and movie listings on a touch sensitive screen and credit card swipe spot.
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Nintendo announces Wi-Fi Connection plans
Friday, November 4th, 2005Nintendo says that more than 7500 hotspots to be active in UK alone from the official launch on November 25. Nintendo has announced that more than 15,000 Wi-Fi Connection hotspots will be active in time for the European launch of the service
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Free Wifi locations anywhere you are
Thursday, October 20th, 2005With the increasing demand for wifi while you are dining in that trendy manhatten restaurant on your companies tab, or sitting sipping a cafe latte in the local Starbucks, or on the beach in California enjoying the sun, It seems as though wifi hotspot locations are popping up everywhere. And free wifi locations at that!
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Wi-Fi Hotspot Security
Friday, October 14th, 2005You’ve set up your Boingo account, you’re hanging out at the Home Turf sports bar in LAX and you figure you’ll do a little business or check your e-mail while sipping a Chardonnay. Well, that’s the point of all this; being able to take care of a few things while in a relaxing atmosphere.
Don’t get so relaxed that you ignore security and give all your confidential information to some unscrupulous hacker.
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Free Wi-Fi Hotspots Please
Friday, October 14th, 2005‘TANSTAAFL’, the acronym for ‘There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch’, may be familiar to those of you who have taken a college economics class or two and whenever you hear the word ‘Free’ in association with a product or service it’s a good idea to keep it in mind because, the truth is, nothing is free. Someone, somewhere, somehow, is bearing an economic cost; and so it is with free wifi hotspots.
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