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Definition: Wi-Fi network
See wireless LAN and 802.11.
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Exclusive: Google's free WiFi for Google+ promo doesn't work (yet?)
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Wi-Fi dead zones: Extending your home Wi-Fi network
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Light-paintings sketch WiFi signals in spectacular display
A team of designer researchers in Norway are investigating the material and spatial qualities of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs.
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Man-in-the-middle attacks demoed on 4 smartphones
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What to do when a business hotel doesn't have a WiFi network?
That's the question that I'm facing this morning. I'm in Wingate by Wyndam facility in Atlanta, GA, this morning. I'm presenting the findings of a research project to a KG client in a few hours....
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No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from Philly
EarthLink on Tuesday threw in the towel on its Philadelphia Wi-Fi project, which the ISP was trying to transfer to a non-profit or the city's operating group. Now EarthLink is trying to pull out...
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Why I run an open Wi-Fi network
Security expert Bruce Schneier wrote a column yesterday titled Steal This Wi-Fi explaining why he runs an open wireless network at home: To me, it's basic politeness. Providing internet access to...
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Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
A man in London was arrested for using an open Wi-Fi network from someone's unsecured broadband link from a nearby house. Similar arrests have happened in the US and this makes me wonder: Can...
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VoIP over wireless: ten things you should know
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Bill would prevent states from blocking local Wi-Fi networks
As the battle between open access and corporate control rages on in a number of contexts (net neutrality, long-distance spectrum) U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., has introduced a bill to keep...
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And the first iPhone reviews are in: "beautiful," "revolutionary," but flawed
Walt Mossberg of WSJ loves it: "beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer. " Doesn't mind lack of a physical keyboard: The iPhone's most controversial feature, the omission of a physical...
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Open Wi-Fi networks leave many places for criminals to hide
Efforts against child porn and solicitation are stymied by unsecured Wi-Fi networks where users can't be tracked.
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Photo: Wi-Fi giveaway
Spanish start-up FON plans to give away its La Fonera router to help build a citywide Wi-Fi network.
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Trouble in Wi-Fi
The first city-wide Wi-Fi network - St. Cloud, Fla.'s 15-square-mile installation - is frustrating users with spotty, often nonexistent service. Haven't these people ever heard of "beta?"
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MIT's Wi-Fi network knows where users are
Tracking Wi-Fi usage, with permission, gives users and planners unprecedented ways to understand where people are and where they want to be.
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Philly picks EarthLink for Wi-Fi network
Against all odds, a groundbreaking project moves forward as EarthLink beats out HP to unwire fifth largest city.
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Dear Hilton at CeBiT: "Nice view, but your Wi-Fi network stinks!"
Next to a decent night's sleep, the thing David Berlind wants most from his hotel room is connectivity. Although none of the New York Hilton's Ethernet-wired rooms were available, they suggested...
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