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Mobile mile high club? Fly the friendly skies

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:28:19 +0000

There was a time when using your Apple PowerBook in an airport lounge was an open invitation to other Mac users to strike up a conversation. Those chummy days are gone, but the Apple family has grown immeasurably and there’s a certain comfort, not mention probability, in numbers.

So, who’s getting work done [...] Related posts:

Google further backtracks on Wi-Fi scanning

John Lister — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:56:00 +0000

Google has announced it will allow people to demand that their home or business Wi-Fi network be removed from its database. It’s a continuing fallout from the scandal over scanning that collected private data.

To cut a long story short, Google decided that knowing [...] Related posts:

Wi-fi is battery suck, grad student has cure

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:25:30 +0000

If you wanna drain your smartphone’s precious juice(s), go somewhere with a high density of Wi-Fi hotspots, connect and download video. In other words, you’ll get battery performance download via Wi-Fi in a Midwestern farmhouse than, say, the middle of Manhattan.

Duke Today, the student newspaper at Duke University, reports [...] Related posts:

London Tube going Wi-Fi for 2012

Dave Parrack — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:19:24 +0000

Part of the London Underground network is having Wi-Fi connectivity added between now and the start of the 2012 London Olympics.

According to Transport for London, Wi-Fi provision will be added to up to 120 Tube stations by June [...] Related posts:

Android will fly into space

Susan Wilson — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:53:19 +0000

The University of Surrey and Guildford-based Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) are planning to send an Android smartphone into space. The Surrey Training, [...] Related posts:

Korea: Google broke privacy laws

Dave Parrack — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:45:47 +0000

South Korea has become the first country to declare Google broke local laws when it accessed wireless networks while mapping for its Street View service. However, whether any charges will ever be brought is as yet unclear.

Earlier this year Google [...] Related posts:

Amazon’s cloud an unintended hacker’s dream

John Lister — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:17:47 +0000

Amazon’s cloud computing service has been used to break into a wireless network. But the company notes that it’s the security system itself that’s the problem.

The attack is based on the fact that Amazon’s cloud service doesn’t simply offer [...] Related posts:

Does Wi-Fi kill trees?

Michael W. Jones — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:43:40 +0000

On the face of it, the suggestion that Wi-Fi is killing trees does not make a great deal of sense, but anything may be possible. No one seems to know for sure, but researchers have been looking into it.

A report sometime [...] Related posts:

Google is sponsoring free in flight Wi-Fi on Virgin America, Delta, and Air Tran for the holidays

Susan Wilson — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Google has decided to sponsor in [...] Related posts:

Verizon to try out a cheaper data plan

Michael W. Jones — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:59:11 +0000

It sometimes seems that the landscape of the smartphone arena does not stay the same for more than a few minutes. Now Verizon is shaking it up again with a cheaper limited data plan.

Verizon Wireless has announce [...] Related posts: