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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 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, [...]
Two years ago, France granted 44 regional WiMAX licenses in the 3.5 GHz spectrum to operators and local governments, taking in €126 million in one of the most anticipated WiMAX auctions in Europe. This past summer, ARCEP, the French regulator conducted a survey to assess the speed of WiMAX deployments and determine whether WiMAX license [...]
Portsmouth, New Hampshire is expanding its Wi-Fi hotzone thanks to a $345,000 equipment donation from Cisco. Other partners in the Wi-Fi project include the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab, the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, Single Digits, BayRing Communications, Port City Web and Buzz on a Budget. All have donated equipment, services or expertise [...]
If there was one clear point that surfaced in almost every interview and all the research we did for our new consumer report on WiMax, it was that the consumer appetite for a mobile Internet experience is apparently huge, and it’s just starting to grow. But in a thorough report about how Internet users are [...]
Nokia has begun selling the N810 WiMAX Tablet in the US. With the rollout of WiMAX service around the world (Sprint’s Xohm service in Baltimore, WorldMax’s Aerea in Amsterdam), a number of hardware manufacturers have begun selling devices that take advantage of WiMAX networks. The problem is that if they have a built-in WiMAX chip, [...]
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