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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.   |
PC Magazine
February 8, 2008
Dan Costa |
Muni Wi-Fi's Weak Signal When I log on to the Web at my apartment in Hoboken, I see 11 Wi-Fi networks, half of them open. So why should I pay taxes for muni Wi-Fi? |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
March 19, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Wi-Fi Crowd's Must-Have: Mesh HotZones Mesh vendors tout new architecture at Wi-Fi Planet show. |
The Motley Fool
January 14, 2005
Dave Mock |
Intel: Not-So-Secret Agent of Disruption Intel backs government initiatives for wireless broadband. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2007 |
Market growth to slow for Wi-Fi mesh networking Shipments of Wi-Fi mesh networking equipment will grow by more than threefold between 2006 and 2011, yet most of that growth will come between 2006 and 2008 and decline rapidly starting in 2009. |
InternetNews
December 2, 2004
Michael Singer |
'Wireless Philadelphia' Sparks Concern Philadelphia's controversial plan to create low-cost wireless Internet service is fueling a debate among Wi-Fi technology firms over business models. |
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. |
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
September 5, 2005
Catherine Yang |
Wi-Fi With Its Own Zip Code As more municipalities set up wireless networks, a fast-moving business emerges. |
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? |
InternetNews
May 17, 2010 |
Google Admits Accidental Wi-Fi Data Collection Google apologizes for its collection of content from open Wi-Fi access points. |
CIO
August 8, 2008
Thomas Wailgum |
Free Wi-Fi: Should Retailers Offer It to Customers? Customers now expect complimentary Wi-Fi Hotspot connectivity, but many businesses such as Starbucks, McDonald's, Borders and Panera Bread are taking varied approaches to offering up and paying for Wi-Fi service. |
InternetNews
August 16, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Unwires a City Google today turned on free Internet access for all of Mountain View, Calif. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 27, 2006
David Needle |
Silicon Valley Gears Up Wireless Plans Smart Valley announced the signing Thursday of an agreement to develop a Request for Proposal to design a high-speed wireless data network that will cover all of Silicon Valley. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2006
David Kushner |
Wi-Fi for the People Philadelphia plans to become the biggest wireless hot spot ever. But Philadelphia's plan is not designed just to put computers into underserved areas; it also aims to teach people how to use them. |
InternetNews
October 4, 2005
Eric Griffith |
EarthLink Scores with Philadelphia EarthLink launches its municipal wireless division with a win as the pick for Wireless Philadelphia. |
Entrepreneur
July 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Public Offering A grass-roots wireless network is flourishing in San Francisco. How was it built? |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2006
Steven Cherry |
Wi-Fi Nodes to Talk Amongst Themselves A new standard for mesh technologies will lower the costs of citywide wireless networks. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2008
Jeremy Hsu |
Wi-Fi Cloud Hovers Over Salt Lake City Researchers map the invisible geography of wireless networks. |
PC Magazine
December 21, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
Get with the Mesh Free Wi-Fi access for all? Here's how one California city is doing it. |
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. |
InternetNews
October 29, 2008
Judy Mottl |
Wi-Fi Networks Growing in Number, Security Companies and consumers are using Wi-Fi networks more than ever, although security measures aren't always keeping pace, according to a new study. |
CIO
August 27, 2010
Thomas Wailgum |
A New Wireless Brew Reversing course, Starbucks decides free Wi-Fi is essential to bringing customers to its stores. |
InternetNews
June 27, 2006
Tim Scannell |
An Eye For Muni Wi-Fi After nearly a decade of your-face messaging and alerts, Front Porch is now ready to flip its PorchLight on municipal Wi-Fi networks. |
CIO
July 1, 2003
Galen Gruman |
Wi-Fi Crime Fighters Connecting police officers with a state-of-the-art Wi-Fi communications system that's reliable and secure isn't easy, but it's worth it for the Post Falls, Idaho, Police Department. |
Information Today
November 2004
Dick Kaser |
Opinion: Oh, What a Wireless World Do we really need Wi-Fi? Probably not. Can it actually be deployed citywide? Will I still own this computer when Wi-Fi goes everywhere my travels take me? Only time will tell. |
PC Magazine
November 16, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
The Biggest Wi-Fi Cloud of All The largest wireless hot spot in the United States is rural Oregon. Wireless providers are hoping the trend doesn't spread. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
The Tropos Two-Play Router Tropos Networks has beefed up its gear by releasing the first in a product family of routers to give growing number of municipalities more choices in citywide wireless access. |
InternetNews
August 26, 2009 |
Wi-Fi Smartphone Sales to Double by 2011: ABI As Wi-Fi becomes an integral part of the smartphone success story, recent data shows the trend is snowballing. |
CFO
January 1, 2005
John Edwards |
Casting a Wider Net Forget hot spots. Mesh technology brings fast and cheap wireless Internet access to entire zip codes. But makers of mesh nets, including Tropos, MeshNetworks, Firetide, and BelAir Networks, continue to roll out different --- and usually incompatible --- products. |
InternetNews
May 16, 2006
Tim Scannell |
Cell a Hard Sell Wi-Fi may be the technology du jour right now, but cellular is fighting for the inside track. |
InternetNews
November 30, 2004
Michael Singer |
Wi-Fi Firms Look Ahead to RFID, VoIP As the Wi-Fi sector passes through another stage of development, industry leaders are converging in Silicon Valley this week to discuss the latest trends. |
PC Magazine
October 10, 2007
Erik Rhey |
Pinching Wi-Fi Poachers Police are arresting those who connect to unsecured wireless networks. But is it really a crime to surf for free? |
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
August 19, 2009 |
Smartphone Wi-Fi Use Quadruples, Sales Up 47% As smartphone sales and Wi-Fi use surge, a symbiotic relationship between the two is causing waves throughout the wireless industry. |
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. |
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 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. |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
T-Mobile Dials Up Wi-Fi The new wireless service HotSpot@Home is easy to use, but the handsets aren't great. Traditionally laborious to initiate, T-Mobil's new approach to Wi-Fi set up is completely automated. |
InternetNews
October 1, 2005
Eric Griffith |
Google Offers to Unwire San Francisco Google has responded to the City by the Bay's request for information on building a city-wide Wi-Fi network...and says it would do it for free. |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Which BlackBerry Is the Juiciest? The different ways T-Mobile and AT&T integrate Wi-Fi make all the difference. |
The Motley Fool
June 26, 2007
Anders Bylund |
EarthLink Rollas On in a Huff A look at EarthLink's new CEO, and thoughts about where the company is headed. |
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. |
