Spend a few days hanging around Black Hat and DEF CON, and you’ll see some creepy hacks. If you wanna lose a little sleep, dwell on the fact it’s much easier to replicate the work or even to buy data-capturing devices.
It is remarkable to see Wi-Fi, a technology so core to our modern existence, brought alive by color and illustrations. These five gorgeous visualizations show us how Wi-Fi networks propagate and work in the real world.
Spotty connections, no more: Starbucks will finally get faster and more stable Wi-Fi in all of its company-owned stores, thanks to Google.
Eight years after it floated the idea of blanketing San Francisco with free wireless Internet access, Google is ready to launch WiFi in 31 of city’s parks. If you use a smartphone, you gotta be happy about it. I know I am.
Change is coming to airports where bored travelers must often confront slow and expensive WiFi.
Researchers think the low-cost, portable technology could be used for personal safety and to locate survivors in collapsed buildings.
If you live and work on the Internet like I do, and happen to travel all the time, then you need a good connection to the Internet. Unfortunately, hotels – both big and small fail to deliver, doesn’t matter at what price.
Wi-Fi has moved from an at-home convenience to a public service as mobile devices continue to take over. Here’s a look at the new opportunities to connect with consumers, and how businesses can easily screw it all up.
News brands like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are turning to free Wi-Fi as a way to promote their content. In the lates example, Times readers can get 15 free stories a day while sitting in Starbucks.
Just one month after announcing free voice calls over Wi-Fi in BlackBerry Messenger, Research In Motion delivers the feature to all handsets running BB 6 OS or better. A video demo shows the added functionality, which could save money for some, easy to use.
