Free Airport and in-Flight Wifi thanks to Google
From now until January 15, 2010, Google will offer free wireless access in more than 45 different airports around the US, and in all Virgin American flights. The airports, including my home town of St.
Unfinished Windows 7 feature turns laptops into WiFi hotspots
A Philadelphia developer has rooted out an unfinished feature of Windows 7 that turns any laptop into a wireless access point, allowing other WiFi-enabled devices to share the connection without special software.
BlackBerry Users Get Free Boingo Mobile WiFi App
Boingo Wireless, an international network of both wired Internet zones and WiFi hotspots, today released Boingo Mobile for BlackBerry, a free application that lets the company's subscribers know whenever they're in range of Boingo hotspots so they can then connect "with a single click."
Outdoor 11n WiFi gear grabs spotlight
A big focus for WiFi makers these days is on building equipment that supports high-speed outdoor network applications. For example, there are enterprises that want to extend their wireless LANs outdoors. There are municipalities with wireless public safety and city service applications. And there are service providers wanting to build hot spots that offload data traffic from 3G networks that are quickly growing saturated.
Brocade taps Motorola for WiFi
Brocade Tuesday said it is refreshing its WiFi product line via a five-year strategic partnership with Motorola.
Unfinished Windows 7 feature turns laptops into WiFi hotspots
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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