The Bay Area Rapid Transit in the San Francisco Bay Area may not be installing a Wi-Fi network on its trains after all. The San Francisco Examiner reports that Wi-Fi Rail, the company hired by BART to install the network, does not have sufficient funds. Wi-Fi Rail says however that BART has not yet signed the contract so it’s hard for them to raise money, especially in this environment.
Sorry for those of you who logged on to the New America Foundation’s webcast of the debate between Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Reed Hundt, the tech advisers of McCain and Obama yesterday. Holtz-Eakin did not show up at all, due to a “last minute scheduling conflict” according to the McCain campaign. Although it seems to have been an honest scheduling conflict, Holtz-Eakin appeared on MSNBC at 1:00 p.m., right during the middle of the New America event. While on MSNBC, Holtz-Eakin…
Volkswagen is testing a car that will send and receive information via Wi-Fi to a muni wireless network or Wi-Fi enabled deivce. The idea is that as you are driving in a city, the car can obtain location-based information about car parks, restaurants, movie theaters, clubs and other points of interest. This assumes that there is either a citywide Wi-Fi network in place or a large Wi-Fi hotzone. The specially outfitted Volkswagen Tiguan is also designed to communicate with any…
Boingo has just added 500 Wi-Fi hotspots of Tata Communications to their global roaming network. According to the company, the aggregated network in India now includes popular locations such as Barista Coffee, Pizza Corner and Coffee World, Nokia Priority Centers and Nirula’s, as well as numerous hotels and airports (Chennai International Airport, Cochin International Airport, Goa International Airport, Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Pune International Airport, and Sardar Vallabhbhai International Airport).
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…AT&T is giving away access to all of its Wi-Fi hotspots in Starbucks, Barnes and Noble, and other locations to iPhone users. I can understand why they’re doing this: they want iPhone owners to use Wi-Fi instead of the 3G network which has suffered a number of outages in recent months in various parts of the US. According to Engadget, there is a hack for people who don’t own iPhones but want to get access to AT&T’s Wi-Fi networks for…
The New America Foundation is hosting a live webcast on 30 October 2008 starting at 12:25 EST featuring Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Reed Hundt, who will debate the candidates’ tech agendas. Here’s a description of the topics that will be discussed:
Why is the United States falling behind the rest of the world in broadband access, and how can the US reverse that? What should American immigration policy be for skilled tech workers? How can US technology policies strengthen the broader economy?…
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