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The Motley Fool August 30, 2007 Dave Mock	Too Windy for Wi-Fi While Chicago's decision and EarthLink's troubles don't spell the end of municipal wireless, it is increasingly clear that such networks will face a higher level of scrutiny regarding costs and returns on their investments.
CIO April 1, 2006 Susannah Patton	Wi-Fight A growing number of cities and towns want to develop their own public Wi-Fi networks. But they face stiff opposition from telecom and cable providers.
BusinessWeek May 21, 2007 Ronald Grover	Municipal Wi-Fi: A Failure To Communicate Municipal Wi-Fi networks don't quite deliver on the promise of wide-ranging access.
InternetNews January 9, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Vonage Inks Earthlink to Wi-Fi Deal Internet phone company Vonage inked a three-year agreement with EarthLink, allowing the Internet access provider to offer Wi-Fi access to customers served by municipal wireless networks.
InternetNews March 11, 2011	Wi-Fi Speeds Lag 30% Behind Wired: Study For home users looking to enjoy the delights of a cord-free life, Wi-Fi is an obvious choice, but new research from Epitiro suggests that that convenience often means slower performance.
Entrepreneur October 2005 Mike Hogan	Phone on the Range Head to the country, where Wi-Fi roams free and unrestricted by big-city politics. You'll be encouraged by the possibilities.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	New York City Plans To Give Residents $70 Million Worth Of Wi-Fi In an effort to further bridge the New York City's digital divide, the de Blasio administration is spending $70 million to expand cheap, high-speed broadband across the five boroughs, the city announced today.
BusinessWeek September 5, 2005 Catherine Yang	Wi-Fi With Its Own Zip Code As more municipalities set up wireless networks, a fast-moving business emerges.
The Motley Fool January 14, 2005 Dave Mock	Intel: Not-So-Secret Agent of Disruption Intel backs government initiatives for wireless broadband.
Entrepreneur March 2010 Dan O'Shea	Wi-Fi, Mano a Mano Imagine a world where using Wi-Fi doesn't mean sacrificing security. It could happen.
InternetNews March 7, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Muni Wi-Fi's Second Chance Wi-Fi networks can work with a little tweaking, a new study finds.
Inc. April 2009	Staying Connected: WiFi Hot Spots to Go Two new tools can turn your mobile broadband connection into a Wi-Fi hot spot.
Entrepreneur February 2007 Amanda C. Kooser	What Can Muni Wi-Fi Do for Your Biz? Tune in to the opportunities citywide Wi-Fi projects bring.
PC Magazine July 13, 2004 Alan Cohen	WiMAX: The Wireless Net Gets Extreme Broadband wireless connections are right around the corner.
PC Magazine February 27, 2008 John Brandon	Municipal Wireless on the Ropes The Utopian vision of wireless for all city residents is starting to fade.
InternetNews February 13, 2008 Judy Mottl	Starbucks Wi-Fi Gets Sweeter Secure, free Wi-Fi access newest offering on Starbucks' menu.
InternetNews November 29, 2005 David Needle	Wi-Fi Still Booming Sales of chipsets that enable wireless connectivity topped 100 million units this year.
The Motley Fool October 15, 2009 Tim Beyers	Wireless Wizards Won't Leave Telcos Alone The Wi-Fi Alliance announced Wi-Fi Direct, a new specification that allows Wi-Fi devices such as laptops, smartphones, headsets, and the like to discover and link to each other without the aid of a router.
BusinessWeek August 13, 2009	Faster Web Connections Washington is trying to figure out how to expand broadband service throughout the U.S. at a reasonable cost. Take a look at the competing technologies.
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Yang & Green	Welcome to Broadband City Towns are rushing to build Wi-Fi systems. Cable and phone giants don't like it one bit.
InternetNews April 29, 2005 Tim Gray	Verizon Wireless Cuts NYC Wi-Fi Verizon Wireless is pulling the plug on its free wireless Internet access service that uses New York City phone booths as "hotspots" for its DSL subscribers.
InternetNews November 23, 2004 Adam Stone	Wireless LAN Outdoes Wired The money spent on wireless LANs outpaced that tied up in wired solutions for the first time this fall--but Wi-Fi spending still lags behind cellular/telecom wireless.
InternetNews April 8, 2010	Apple Offers Tips on Fixing iPad Wi-Fi But will the company's suggestions mollify users complaining about issues with the tablet's wireless connections?
PC Magazine October 27, 2004 Bill Howard	Easy Wait at Gate 58 OnAir Entertainment, a Silicon Valley startup, builds media servers that record broadcast, cable, or satellite TV, so airport Wi-Fi providers can offer it along with wireless Internet access.
Inc. February 1, 2010 John Brandon	3 Great Portable Routers Reviews of portable routers from Verizon, ZyXEL, and CradlePoint.
BusinessWeek June 20, 2005 Stephen H. Wildstrom	Notebooks Get Even More Mobile Wi-Fi hot spots are limited, so some notebook computers are coming equipped to utilize data transmission capabilities of cellular networks.
InternetNews February 2, 2009 Judy Mottl	Comcast Quietly Puts Wi-Fi Beta on Track Cable giant launches New Jersey pilot near rail stations without telling anyone about it.
PC Magazine June 26, 2007 Sascha Segan	T-Mobile Hotspot@Home / Nokia 6086 T-Mobile Hotspot@Home will revolutionize the way we think about cell-phone coverage, once it works. Unfortunately, it doesn't operate quite as promised.
Knowledge@Wharton March 26, 2003	Wi-Fi: A Wild Card in Telecom's Restructuring A wild card as the industry restructures is a technology called "wi-fi." Wi-fi is such a hot area -- one of the few pockets of optimism on the tech scene today -- that a recent Wharton conference presented a panel devoted to discussing its potential.
InternetNews April 6, 2006 Eric Griffith	Earthlink, Google are Top Pick to Unwire San Francisco The five-member TechConnect Committee planning the future of city-wide wireless for the city of San Francisco last night picked the partnership of Earthlink and Google as their top choice of system integrator to install and manage the network.
PHONE+ October 15, 2009	Wi-Fi Direct to Create P2P Blanket? Watch out, Bluetooth. The Wi-Fi Alliance has introduced a new Wi-Fi specification called Wi-Fi Direct, which will enable Wi-Fi devices to communicate with each other on a peer-to-peer basis.
Entrepreneur July 2003 Dayton & Worrell	Wireless Wealth The Wi-Fi revolution is coming. Find out how your business can get in on the ground floor and rope in profits.
Popular Mechanics August 2007 Glenn Derene	Mesh Networking Takes Wi-Fi to the Masses: Emerging Tech Most Wi-Fi hot spots work by taking a hard-wired Internet connection and distributing it over a 300-ft. radius from a wireless hub. This works fine for a single location, but what if you want to blanket a large area with wireless access?
HBS Working Knowledge February 14, 2005 Julie Jette	Will Traditional Broadband Stand Up against Wi-Fi and WiMAX? With wireless broadband capabilities expanding significantly, it looks like "regular" broadband providers and cellular phone services have their work cut out for them. But maybe there is room for everybody.
InternetNews January 9, 2009 Judy Mottl	Mobile Devices Spur Wi-Fi Chip Sales The Wi-Fi chipmakers must have missed that memo about the economy.
InternetNews April 28, 2010	What Does the Future Hold for Wi-Fi? As new Wi-Fi standards work their way through the ratification process, a panel of experts at the Interop show in Las Vegas discuss the next steps in wireless networking.
PC Magazine August 3, 2005 John C. Dvorak	Disserving the Public The United States has dropped to 16th in the world in per capita broadband deployment, and we can expect to slip further. While there is local interest in improving the situation, state and federal officials will make sure it doesn't happen.
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Jeremy Hsu	Wi-Fi Cloud Hovers Over Salt Lake City Researchers map the invisible geography of wireless networks.
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003	Sean Maloney, Intel By combining Wi-Fi with a new low-power mobile processor, Intel is bringing Wi-Fi to the masses.
Entrepreneur August 2003 Mike Hogan	Look for a Sign Downloading on the go? Then get into the zone. Look for the Wi-Fi ZONE logo on storefronts; providers exhibiting that logo agree to meet certain standards of service and security set by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
The Motley Fool July 28, 2010 Anders Bylund	Is This the Best You Can Do, Ma Bell? When 3G connections don't work and 4G is still far away, how do you offload the wireless network? With a different network, of course.
InternetNews September 22, 2008 David Needle	iPass: Europe Leads in Business Wi-Fi Use Broadband management firm said its latest figures show a big jump in European use of Wi-Fi hotspots.
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Alyce Lomax	EarthLink Still Earthbound Although there was never any question that EarthLink had to transform its business, the jury's still out on how successful its array of new initiatives will be in such a competitive environment. EarthLink is still a mighty speculative stock for investors.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2004 Dave Mock	Buying Into Wireless Broadband Several announcements by major telecom players are changing the mobile broadband game significantly. The end game is twofold: consumers will see cheaper mobile broadband service, and investors will have their picks battling in a more cutthroat market.
Inc. July 2006 Martha Baer	Wi-Fi for the Masses Tropos Networks aims to bring the high-speed internet to everyone. Here's how the company is doing it - one city at a time.
BusinessWeek May 26, 2011 Peter Burrows	Can Wi-Fi Work Citywide in New York? City-spanning Wi-Fi has been tried before. Towerstream's effort may work because of the rise of smartphones and tablets.
PC World September 2002 Roy Santos	Double Wi-Fi Network Speeds? U.S. Robotics' 22-mbps wireless networking products improve on Wi-Fi speeds -- but only on networks with no Wi-Fi clients.
InternetNews April 22, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Net2Phone Adds Wi-Fi VoIP to Strategy The firm enhances its platform to support Wi-Fi VoIP connections as an alternative to landline service and names IDT as the first customer.
InternetNews May 10, 2010	Wi-Fi Networking Could Get Speedier Gigabit wireless Internet could be coming soon, if two industry groups continue driving ahead with their joint effort.
Entrepreneur January 2005 Amanda C. Kooser	Wall-to-Wall Large offices and older buildings require special care to extend the network to every cranny. Wi-Jacks are the latest hardware offering aimed at making Wi-Fi easier and cheaper for businesses.