Michael Small, the chief executive of Aircell, which provides wi-fi to 10 large North American airlines, says his company is considering developing a simulated text messaging application that would work in-flight.
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My wife and I have tried also to take advantage of the hospitality at the Westport Public Library, the Wilton YMCA, and the Wilton Public Library, each of which boasts Wi-Fi access and a very welcoming attitude.
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Many communities already have pockets of limited free Wi-Fi, but until now those services are mostly either centered around public hotspots like parks, hospitals or libraries or offered by major tech firms like Google, which provides Wi-Fi throughout its headquarters city of Mountain View.
Nicole Collomb, who is one volunteers, said the idea came about after a new branch of the WI, which calls itself the Wonky WI, was formed in the town.
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The ground-based system offered by Gogo, which connects a Wi-Fi hot spot installed in a jet to one of 135 antennas Gogo has on the ground in North America, has been running on commercial aircraft since 2008.
But before that approval, the Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry consortium that promotes Wi-Fi technology, previously adopted most of the features already assumed to be part of the 802.11i standard and built them into a temporary set of enhancements that it called Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) which is available on most newer Wi-Fi access points.
So could toys like Mattel's IM-Me mobile messaging device, which increasingly ships with wi-fi on board.
Aruba's LeBeau figures it is too early in this game to say which of the central Wi-Fi players will prevail.
So could toys like Mattel (nyse: MAT - news - people )'s IM-Me mobile messaging device, which increasingly ships with wi-fi on board.
"All the products at Best Buy will eventually follow, " predicts Amol Sarva, chief executive of New York City-based start-up Txtbl, which will launch a wi-fi-enabled mobile e-mail device this summer.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which set the first Wi-Fi standard, is currently working on a new standard called 802.11i that is expected to address the security concerns.
The company will take a cut from Amazon purchases made within the shop's Wi-Fi zone, but it will get nothing from off-site transactions, or from shoppers with 3G devices (which do not require Wi-Fi).
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Many airlines are using flight apps, which don't require Wi-Fi once installed on the tablets.
Other stories have documented the litigation crusade of Innovatio, which has sued businesses offering Wi-Fi service on their premises.
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The KDDI service, which will be called au Wi-Fi SPOT, will be free to KDDI subscribers who have Google Android smartphones and flat-rate plans.
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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 mobile industry is currently collaborating on a new wi-fi protocol called PassPoint which will allow consumers to use one sign-in to join any public wi-fi network, wherever they happen to be.
They do this through a combination of smart antennas, which have been used to improve performance in Wi-Fi networks in the past, and Airgo True MIMO technology, which hasn't.
Tell that to Microsoft, which is looking for a new Wi-Fi system to replace its Cisco-based network.
These pricing changes, if implemented, could boost adoption of in-flight Wi-Fi, which is still considered a nascent technology.
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Every hotel that offers free Wi-Fi, which should be every hotel, could in theory give free unlimited calling to anyplace.
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And it says it has developed a system that properly places 911 calls over Wi-Fi, which has often been a problem.
The next phase would be televisions that connected to the Internet through Wi-Fi, which would allow users to stream Web-original content on the TV.
All this threatens the deployment of municipal Wi-Fi networks which are now being deployed in cities around the world by companies such as Google and Earthlink.
Since then, it has installed wi-fi, which it markets under the name Gogo, on 900 aircrafts or about one-third of the U.S. domestic mainline fleet.
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Currently, many tablet owners, for example, only connect to the Internet with Wi-Fi, which is free, because they don't want to purchase new mobile plans for tablets.
That should help Boingo because the emergence of tiered data plans will propel users to Wi-Fi, which will remain either free or low-cost under flat-rate plans, contends Hagan.
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which publishes the actual rules that Wi-Fi devices reference, said its standards-writing process is running ahead of schedule and should publish the new standard before year's end.
The phone even displays a button during calls, called informally "the escape hatch, " which allows you to kill the Wi-Fi call and force the phone to redial the other person over Sprint for no added charge.
All five machines also come with built-in antennas for Airport wireless-networking connectivity, which is Apple's name for Wi-Fi wireless networking.
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