Philadelphia Considers Wireless Access For All

Yahoo! News: City officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot. The ambitious plan, now under discussion, would involve placing thousands of small transmitters around the city -- probably...

Destination Wi-Fi, by Rail, Bus or Boat

The New York Times: In the United States, nearly six million people commute daily by public transportation, according to the Department of Transportation. Few operators offer wireless Internet access in their stations and terminals - much less on board -...

Grassroots Wi-Fi Is 'Potentially Monumental'

The New York Times: Meanwhile, thousands of free hot spots have been established by public agencies, mom-and-pop businesses hoping to attract customers and individuals working to build a grass-roots based network. A handful of city governments, some in cooperation with...

RFID and Wi-Fi Watch The Kids

Legoland, the Danish equivalent of Disneyland, is the test bed of a new Wi-Fi version of Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tags, the technology making converts everywhere from the halls of the U.S. Pentagon to the aisles of retail giant...

Wireless Blooms Beyond Wi-Fi

BW Online: It's just one example of how the unlicensed portion of the radio spectrum is turning into a hothouse of technological innovation. For years, these radio frequencies were neglected, the lonely domain of cordless phones and microwave ovens. In...

Mobile Data: WiMax Versus 3G

Yahoo! News: Just when mobile operators are finally getting their costly third-generation (3G) networks up and running, a new wireless technology pushed by the computer industry is about to mess things up. At stake are tens of billions of euros...

Nokia Leaps Into Wi-Fi

WSJ.com (subscription): Nokia Corp., in a move that could loosen cellphone operators' grip on the wireless market, plans to unveil Monday its first handset capable of surfing the Internet using short-range wireless technology known as Wi-Fi. Nokia's Communicator 9500 will...

Intel Outlines Broadband Wireless Vision

MSN Money: Broadband wireless technologies will help bring the next five billion users to the Internet, an Intel Corporation executive explained today at the Wireless Communications Association (WCA) annual symposium. Sean Maloney, Intel executive vice president and general manager of...

Voice Over IP Trends

NewsFactor Network: But VoIP is not just a way of transmitting phone calls on the cheap, says De Beer. "It is, and will be, a component of a range of broadband applications that will combine voice, data and other communications...

Free Wi-Fi Blankets San Francisco

TechTV: A project to help bring free Wi-Fi to the masses is picking up steam in the San Francisco Bay area. If it succeeds, it could become a model for other similar networks all over the world. On "Tech Live,"...

China to Become the World's Fourth Largest Trader, Surpassing France

HinduTimes: China is poised to become the world's fourth largest trader, following US, Japan and Germany, the state media reported on Friday. Export and import volumes of China have totalled about $800 billion since January, Vice Minister of Commerce Wei...

Netherlands university rolls out enormous hot spot

ZDNet: The University of Twente in the Netherlands has rolled out a unique campus-wide wireless hot spot, claimed to be the biggest in Europe. Covering 140 hectares (346 acres) with 650 Cisco Aironet 1200 series access points, it supports more...

Boeing, Lufthansa cleared for in-flight wireless

m-Travel.com Boeing and Lufthansa Technik have received industry-leading aircraft certifications from the German aviation authorities (LBA) and the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) that will enable the use of airborne wireless applications on select commercial flights using the Connexion by...

With Wireless, an English City Reaches Across Digital Divide

New York Times: Three years ago, Shirley Hughes lived a life of dreary routine, collecting welfare checks, bringing up two children as a single mother, passing her evenings in front of the television. Today, she teaches her neighbors how to...

Half Moon Bay Becomes Wi-Fi Haven

San Mateo County Times Online - Business News Taking the Internet cafe concept to another level, a local company has wired a square mile of downtown Half Moon Bay to enable Internet access to the users of portable computers. San...