Last December, AT&T finalized its quarter-billion-dollar acquisition of Wayport, culminating a Wi-Fi services partnership begun in 2003.
It was a dramatic move: a wireless cellular carrier with licensed spectrum actively, even aggressively, embracing unlicensed wireless LAN for its subscribers, who can use Wi-Fi enabled notebooks, dual-mode cellphones, and VoIP without touching the cellular network at all.
AT&T gives its 15 million wired broadband customers free access to these Wi-Fi services. It's continuing to expand public hot-spot services through a variety of venues, the best known being Starbucks, which has deployed the service in some 7,000 stores nationwide. And the carrier is targeting business users in a big way.
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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