AT&T has started to deliver on its promise to provide free Wi-Fi in New York City parks, with free connectivity now being offered in eleven parks.
Nokia, Gawdbless’em, have just flicked the switch on their free central London wi-fi network, with 26 hotspots now offering free net browsing.
Wirefresh’s favourite department store, the employee-owned John Lewis, is going to offer customers free in-store Wi-Fi so they can compare their prices with rivals as they peruse the aisles.
Keen to get it all working in time for the 2012 Olympics, TfL have invited telecoms companies to tender for wi-fi provision at up to 120 stations across the network by June 2012.
UK network has announced plans to roll out ‘O2 Wi-fi’, a system of Wi-Fi hotspots located in retailers and public spaces around the UK – and they’ll be free for everyone. Huzzah!
Thanks to a new freebie app, Apple iPad-owning BT customers can hook up to any one of 2 million Wi-Fi UK hotspots for free by logging in with their BT home broadband details.
Disappointingly not as kinky as our filthy minds first thought, UK network Three will be letting people get jiggy with ‘Human Hotspots’ in major cities across the UK.
Sporting a name that manages to be less snappy than the elastic on Billy Bunter’s ten year old Y Fronts, Orange has announced the Novatel Wireless 3352 Wi-Fi modem.
One of our favourite London websites, The Londonist, has just launched their own iPhone app displaying cafes, bars, restaurants and other places offering free Wi-Fi.
BT today has announced a new freebie mobile app to make it easier for their customers to connect to its network of 1.6 million Wi-Fi hotspots.
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A suitably contrite Alan Eustace, Senior VP, Engineering & Research at Google, has posted up an ‘umble apology after it was discovered that Google’s Street View cars had been collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) Wi-Fi networks.
Blaming it on a ‘mistake,’ Google have now started to delete the collected data and have decided to stop their Street View cars collecting WiFi network data entirely.
The hot news from Google is that the next version of their Android OS is going top offer full Flash support and, crucially, USB tethering.
If you’re an iPhone-toting o2 customer on the look out for free hotspots, Wi-Fi provider The Cloud has made the job a lot easier with the launch of their new app.
Majestic Swindon – birthplace of 70s prog rockers Supertramp, the handsomely proportioned Diana Dors and ace 80s post punksters XTC – will soon have another accolade to add to its rather slim list of achievements as it becomes the first town in the UK to offer free public wireless internet access to its entire population.
Swindon Borough Council has pledged that its 186,000 citizens will enjoy blanket coverage via a “Wi-Fi mesh” at no cost to users.
Set to be installed by April 2010, there’ll be no line rental or connection charges to pay, letting freeloaders access the internet and download emails for nowt, but usage will be limited.
Eye-Fi’s range of wireless SD memory cards will finally be washing up on UK shores.
Scheduled to shuffle on to shop shelves on 19 October, the Eye-Fi cards cunningly let you upload photos and videos to your PC without faffing about with USB cables or having to yank out the card.
They may look like regular SD cards to you, dear unsuspecting reader, but deep within the Eye-Fi card lurks a Wi-Fi transmitter, letting you upload photos and videos directly to your PC or the web as soon as you amble into the range of a wi-fi zone.
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