Posts Tagged with ‘wifi’

Google has been eyeing the white space on your television with an eye to using it for WiFi. For most people, you don't even notice any unused channels in this digital age, but they are there. To repurpose these open spaces for WiFi access would be a huge step toward true nationwide connectivity.
Why is nationwide internet access so key to our future? Currently our nation lags behind other nations in science and technology. We are witnessing a [...]

Wi-Fi Rail, an internet access start up, has been testing their mobile WiFi service on the San Francisco subway system. They claim that their service will offer Internet access to people on the subway at speeds much faster than their own home broadband access.
So far WiFi Rail has run their tests at various subway stations, and also on certain areas of the BART line (Bay Area Rapid Transit). The test delivered 15M bits per second delivery rates [...]

Was it only last night that I was questioning the ability of governments to legislate online activity? It seems too recent to comment on yet another stunning display of the cluelessness of governing bodies with regard to how them thar tubes work, but the United States House of Representatives presented such a classic example that it has to be noted.
On Wednesday, the House approved, with an overwhelming 409-2 vote, HR 3791, otherwise known as the SAFE Act, a piece of [...]

Ever heard of FON? It?s a WiFi network, built, wonderfully enough, by individual consumers and small businesses in Europe and many other parts of the world.
It works on a tiered system of paid and free access. If people opt in to become a ?Fonero? and set up a FON account and hotspot of their own, they can get free access from any other FON hotspot in the world. If one doesn?t complete all aforementioned introductory steps, one can still [...]

The Starbucks-iTunes Store joint venture announced early last month was met with applause when it was first revealed, and rightly so. The partnership ? apart from being first and foremost a moneymaking one for both corporations involved ? would make it oh-so-easy for folks to buy music over the Web when ?on the go.?
Well, at least for folks who don?t mind stepping into a Starbucks at some point during their day and don?t mind buying music from the [...]

While we did inform you about its announcement earlier this month and filled you in on pretty much all of the important details concerning its functions and whatnot, we thought you?d like to know that the iTunes WiFi Music Store has officially gone live. It is accessible via both the iPhone and the iPod touch.
Apple certainly isn?t bringing to the fore something that other businesses in the tech sphere haven?t done themselves. The iTunes WiFi Music Store [...]

For quite some time now, many (though not too many; let’s not get ahead of ourselves here) wireless phone-wielding peoples around the world have been experiencing mobile music downloads. Most use carrier-supplied Web portals formatted for their supplies of various digital audio-friendly devices to perform these over-the-air transactions. Some, of course, do this job terribly. Others are okay at it. And some actually pull the process off fairly well.
Just not well enough, right?
Yesterday, though, things changed – for the [...]

Today we received news that the folks behind Meebo, the very popular Web-based IM client, released an updated website for iPhone users to enjoy. While the company did in fact announce an iPhone-friendly version of its instant messaging client shortly after the official debut of Apple’s handheld, the update is being regarded by numerous bloggers as the development that should’ve been made available from the start.
Apple has no doubt caused a sort of ruckus among a niche of customers frustrated [...]

Let me start this off by stating that I recognize the intention as good. Apple making strides to bridge its soon-to-be-released iPhone with the wealth of content YouTube providesis a no-brainer. All those video clips wrapped inside a luscious UI to take with you wherever you go? What could be better? (High-resvideo clips wrapped in a luscious UI, of course. I presume that’ll come with time.)
There’s a problem with iPhone-YouTube picture today, however, and it has to do with a [...]