Posted on April 25th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Launch follows move from T-Mobile to AT&T service
AT&T Inc. and Starbucks Corp. today announced the start of a nationwide rollout of Wi-Fi service at some Starbucks coffee shops, starting with locations in San Antonio.
The nationwide rollout will continue throughout 2008, the companies said in a statement. The deal was first announced Feb. 11, when Starbucks [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
The city of Corpus Christi, Texas, has taken back ownership of the wireless mesh network it sold last year to EarthLink.
On April 16, city officials inked the deal with EarthLink, which is trying to unload network properties it bought or built during the past three years. The company pulled the plug on its municipal wireless [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Free Wi-Fi will be offered at more than 10,000 locations, such as airports, McDonald’s restaurants, Barnes & Noble bookstores, coffee shops, and sporting venues.
AT&T on Wednesday said it will start offering its broadband subscribers free unlimited access to the company’s Wi-Fi network.
With the growing popularity of Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices, AT&T wanted to give its subscribers [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
In this overview of in-flight Internet capabilities, we take a look at what various airlines say they’ll be offering to their customers, which companies are building networks, and when we can expect to get full Web connections on planes.
With the announcement Friday morning that JetBlue will be teaming up with Research in Motion and Yahoo [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Microsoft on Thursday introduced Linksys, D-Link, and Niveus Media products that would distribute high-definition video from a Windows Media Center PC to any home TV with a wired or wireless network connection.
In addition, Microsoft said that on Friday it expects to distribute an automatic upgrade to Media Center in Windows Vista Home Premium Edition and [...]
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Posted on August 16th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Faced with weak user demand, AT&T and other telecoms are stepping up pressure on cities to foot more of the bill for muni Wi-Fi projects
The static crackling around municipal wireless networks is getting worse.
San Francisco Wi-Fi, perhaps the highest-profile project among the hundreds announced over the past few years, is in limbo. Milwaukee is delaying [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Google, the internet search and online advertising giant, is to provide fee web search, interactive communications and social networking tools to subscribers who sign up for Sprint Nextel’s next generation WiMax wireless network currently under construction.
The two companies said they will jointly offer the search and other tools through a new mobile portal they plan [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
Coming soon could be a wireless broadband world in which consumers get to pick any smartphone or other device and load any software on it — not have to take what the wireless carrier wants to sell.
That’s the goal of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin, who will propose sweeping new rules for wireless airwaves [...]
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Posted on June 5th, 2007 by ElectroGeek
New Ignition feature will focus on promoting up-and-coming acts through free music and video downloads.
Today’s wired/wireless world offers us a fascinating array of entertainment choices, and has made it so that radio is no longer the primary means with which we discover new music, as it was 30, 20, or even just 10 years ago. [...]
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