Free wi-fi at some London Underground stations is to continue for the rest of the year.
Bloomberg and the City of New York to provide free Wi-Fi at 26 locations in 20 New York City parks across the five boroughs.
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Rule No. 1 about in-flight wi-fi (at least in the U.S.): no phone calls allowed.
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Band members talk about missing their kids, jet lag, Wi-Fi reception at the hotel.
The Wi-Fi hotspot at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport is used by only a dozen people each day.
Wi-Fi usage at public hotspots, home or office does not count toward the monthly wireless data plan usage.
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Streamlined connection has also been built into the external design of SMART CAMERA devices with a standalone Direct Link hot key automatically executing on Wi-Fi functionality at the touch of a button.
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Krishna Kurapati, founder and chief technology officer of Sipera Systems , demonstrated vulnerabilities of several Wi-Fi devices at Wednesday's presentations, crashing a Blackberry and a D-Link phone onstage by hacking their wireless Internet connections.
Using a public Wi-Fi network at Starbucks seems as casual an invitation for information theft as leaving your smartphone on a table unguarded while going to the bathroom is an invitation for the more visceral kind.
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In July the city created Wi-Fi hotspots at 10 payphone kiosks in three of its boroughs, the first step in a pilot program designed to make wireless access available to as many people as possible in the city.
At this rate, the tipping point for in-flight wi-fi will come at the end of 2011.
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The Wi-Fi option is at Google's sole discretion, and no guarantees were made.
It did this functionally if not impressively quickly using Microsoft's Remote Display Protocol over the slower Wi-Fi networks available at the time.
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"I will even stick my neck out here and suggest that (limited) free broadband should be available as wi-fi for everyone at home, " she added.
By creating an ad hoc network, the XDJ-AERO can sync with up to four Wi-Fi enabled devices at once, without the need for any extra equipment.
In September 2004, years before the iPhone app boom, the service launched a mobile version for PDAs running on Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 and using Wi-Fi which, at the time, was a very rare commodity.
The plan to boost the coverage of wireless internet in the UK is potentially good news for wi-fi operators because at the moment it is simply not commercially viable to deploy antennas outside of urban areas.
Teachers can use a software suite to take control of the machines via wi-fi and point them at various Web-based education programs.
Crafted with solid wood, this set of two loudspeakers features six Hi-Fi transducers and is at ease with any type of music, with a sound that is wide, clear and impressively deep.
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More information on Wi-Fi CERTIFIED programs, a list of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED products, technical specifications, white papers, and more is available at www.wi-fi.org.
Kindle Paperwhite comes with built-in Wi-Fi, letting readers discover new content at home or on the road anywhere you can access Wi-Fi.
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Business and home users of wi-fi are being advised to at least enable the security settings on the software they install to keep hackers out.
Even if they provide no wi-fi or other online access at the event, the "Twitterati" can still share comments via their own phones and cellular or other connections.
Now, Wi-Fi is free for anyone at those venues.
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At the moment, downloading a song at hi-fi quality over the Internet can take several times as long as playing it, but a number of small companies have set up as online distributors, in the hope that Internet connections will get faster in the next few years.
Pain and Gain's success came at the expense of Tom Cruise sci-fi film Oblivion, which slipped down to second place after one week at the top of the US and Canada chart.
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