Monday, July 26, 2010
AT&T has added a second location in its outdoor hotzone pilot program: Charlotte, NC\'s downtown is the second area to get an AT&T hotzone designed to offload network traffic from the company\'s 3G network and boost performance for customers. The first such hotzone was lit up in Times Square in Manha.. .. read more..
Thursday, July 22, 2010
The telecom behemoth is also gigantic in giving away Wi-Fi to customers: AT&T\'s quarterly report on Wi-Fi usage finds the firm serving 121m sessions in the first six months of 2010; that compares to 86m sessions in all of 2009. Second quarter 2010 saw 68m sessions used, compared with 15m in the yea.. .. read more..
Thursday, July 22, 2010
AirTight Networks\' researcher Md Sohail Ahmad will present a WPA2 weakness primarily a problem on 802.1X networks at DEFCON18 next week: The press release from AirTight doesn\'t give away too many details, but I can read the tea leaves to figure out where the problem lies. There\'s just enough of a h.. .. read more..
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Thieves are stealing credit-card numbers through skimmers they secretly installed inside pumps at gas stations throughout the Southeast, using Bluetooth wireless to transmit stolen card numbers, says law enforcement investigating the incidents. .. read more..
Friday, July 9, 2010
As I predicted, Google won\'t be sucking down Wi-Fi signals in its future Street View efforts in some countries: After the debacle of Google first saying it wasn\'t collecting data from Wi-Fi networks, only scanning for readily available public information, and then discovering and admitting it had s.. .. read more..
Friday, July 9, 2010
Alaska Airlines has ramped up rapidly since its agreement with Aircell to use Gogo Inflight Internet: The airline has half its fleet--all 55 737-800s and 10 737-900s--equipped with in-flight Wi-Fi. The remaining 737-900s (2 of them) will be unwired in July, and the 737-400 and 737-700 fleets will g.. .. read more..
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
The Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) stops charging for Wi-Fi: The facility offered free Wi-Fi on the weekends and to students at any time since 2007, but now won\'t charge a lick for service. Is this PHL\'s way of competing with Baltimore, National, JFK/EWR/LGA? Copyright ©2010 Glenn Fl.. .. read more..
Thursday, July 1, 2010
In-Stat says $95m in revenue will be taken in, almost entirely by Aircell, in 2010: That\'s a fair amount of money for the first year in which a substantial number of planes across multiple airlines are in operation, but still doesn\'t represent a lot of usage overall. Delta still represents the lion.. .. read more..
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Starbucks launches its free North American in-store Internet today: It was quasi-free before (two hours with a single purchase ever since December\'s changes), and now you pay nothing to use as much Wi-Fi as you want. Will *$, as we affectionately call the company here in Seattle, be filled with sno.. .. read more..
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
At Ars Technica, I explain femtocells: In a long article at Ars Technica, I explain what makes femtocells tick, and whether they wind up as a good deal or not for consumers. I\'ve been skeptical for years about femtocells because they are a tricky value proposition for carriers to explain. \"Our netw.. .. read more..
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Starbucks will give away Wi-Fi at nearly 800 outlets in Canada: Starbucks announced today that it would provide free Wi-Fi service at its company-owned stores in Canada, in addition to the nearly 7,000 US locations gaining no-fee Internet access. The service becomes completely free in both countrie.. .. read more..
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The alleged Russian covert agents uncovered in the suburbs used ridiculous communications methods: I\'m flabbergasted by the techniques described in the FBI complaint about how the soi-disant spies communicated. In at least a couple of cases, the FBI states, a Russian official and one of the accused.. .. read more..
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
WEP continues to rear its ugly head: Researchers from Core Security Technologies have found a way to force Cisco Aironet 1200 Series access points to use WEP for broadcast communications if a mixed-mode WEP/WPA security model is set. I\'m not surprised. Devices in mixed mode behave in peculiar ways,.. .. read more..
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Virgin Mobile will sell you a MiFi for $150 to use with pay-as-you-need mobile broadband: Virgin is pairing the MiFi with its existing Broadband2Go plan in which you pay for time-limited pools of broadband as you need them. The plans range from $10 for 100 MB used within 10 days to $60 for 5 GB use.. .. read more..
Monday, June 21, 2010
Barnes & Noble pushes pressure on ereader market with $149 Wi-Fi Nook: The Nook is a ebook reader that\'s gotten mixed reviews. Although B&N keeps upgrading the firmware, the device hasn\'t reached the maturity of a Kindle or Sony Reader. However, B&N made a number of interesting choices about the de.. .. read more..