All the stories tagged with wi fi
Your Off The Shelf Wi-Fi Router Can Easily Be Hacked
04/17/2013, Most internet users don’t put much thought in to buying a Wi-Fi router, they go in the store and usually pick up of the most popular ones. It turns out that most of the best selling ones are actually not [...]
United Is The First U.S. Airline To Offer Satellite Wi-Fi Service To Its International Flights
01/15/2013, United Airlines, touted as the world’s largest airline in terms of destinations and passengers flown, is the first U.S. airline to offer onboard satellite-based Wi-Fi Internet connectivity to its international flights. It’s important to note that onboard Wi-Fi is already [...]
FCC Planning To Free Up Additional Wi-Fi Spectrum To Help Relieve Congestion
01/09/2013, [CES 2013] In case you couldn’t tell by the monster amount of content coming from us this week, CES is currently going on and if you’ve ever been to it, or any other kind of conference, you know Wi-Fi is [...]
FCC Eases Rules For Quicker In-Flight Internet Deployment
12/28/2012, As silly as it seems to use 20,000 pounds of potatoes to test wireless signals, there’s absolutely a good reason behind it and the FCC announced today new rules that will help get more potatoes into the seats of decommissioned [...]
Devicescape to provide seamless Wi-Fi data to Windows Phone 8 devices
11/06/2012, Devicescape, a California-based company that specializes in developing software for wireless networking, is announcing that it has licensed Wi-Fi data from its Curated Virtual Network (CVN) to Microsoft for its Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system. The company has over [...]
London Olympics committee deploys Wi-Fi Police to hunt unauthorized Wi-Fi hotspots
08/02/2012, We already know that wireless hotspots have been banned at the London Olympics. But it seems that the practical aspect of the rule has been tested as sports fans are secretly turning on their mobile hotspots to access the Internet. [...]
Wireless hotspots will be banned from London Olympics
07/25/2012, The 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London will officially commence this Friday, the 27th of July. If you’re planning to spend your weeks watching the games, you might want to leave that wireless router behind. That’s because the London Organising [...]
Super fast Wi-Fi coming your way?
06/25/2012, Just how fast is your current Wi-Fi connection? Well, it seems that scientists have managed to figure out a new method of transportation for wireless data, where they managed to eke out a theoretical figure of 2.5 terabits of information [...]
Scientists Make Wi-Fi Twenty Times Faster
05/16/2012, A group of scientists from Japan have been tinkering with something that is called the “T-ray” band. It is basically an unregulated part of the network spectrum that lies between 300GHz and 3THz or between microwaves and far infrared waves. [...]
Delta regional jets to receive Wi-Fi service
09/07/2011, Wi-Fi connectivity while you are flying used to be nothing but a pipe dream, but this dream has turned into reality for quite some time already. Delta Airlines is one of those companies who has made available their own Wi-Fi [...]
Wi-Fi technology change might double battery life in mobile devices
07/01/2011, Modern mobile devices tend to offer everything but the kitchen sink – unfortunately, that also means taking a huge chunk out of your device’s battery life in the process. Apart from using 3G/4G connectivity when required, while turning off GPS [...]
3DS Kills PictoChat, Will Get Wi-Fi Messaging Client In Next Update?
03/25/2011, A new report from CVG is going around that suggests the Nintendo 3DS will get its very own Wi-Fi messaging client in a new firmware update. Those who have imported a 3DS or received early access to 3DS review units [...]
Wi-Fi Alliance aims to improve public hotspots
03/22/2011, Don’t you just hate it when every time you go to a different shop or public area; you have to enter different logins just to connect to the public network? Well, the Wi-Fi Alliance has just announced a new certification [...]
