Category Archives: HotSpots

Businesses Find Profit In Extending WiFi’s Reach

At the Panera Bread restaurant and bakery on Providence Highway in Dedham, Linda Daniel sat at a small table next to the fireplace one recent morning, nursing her coffee and tapping on a laptop computer. Via [boston.com]Continue Reading

New Mexico Village Gets Wi-Fi Coverage

The village of Los Lunas, New Mexico, is the latest municipality to deploy wide-area Wi-Fi coverage, and the community has ambitions to leverage the wireless technology to eventually provide VoIP service. Via [techweb.com]Continue Reading

Savvis, Panera Bread Team Up On Wi-Fi Services At Restaurants

Savvis Communications Corp. will provide networking services to Panera Bread Co. to support the chain’s wireless Internet access at more than 600 of its bakery-cafés, the company said Monday. Via [stlouis.bizjournals.com]Continue Reading

WiFi Hotspot In D.C. Will Channel Inaugural News

A free WiFi hotspot operating through Jan. 22 along Washington’s Pennsylvania Ave. will let observers send photos, e-mail and commentary about the presidential inaugural events. Via [gcn.com]Continue Reading

Wi-Fi Goes (West) Hollywood

The city of West Hollywood, home of the renowned Sunset Strip, wants to join the growing ranks of municipalities making free wireless broadband available to anyone. Via [news.com.com]Continue Reading

Cingular Expands Wi-Fi Reach

Cingular Wireless has expanded its Wi-Fi offering to seven international airports in the United States, with the addition of the Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina. Via [wirelessweek.com]Continue Reading

Charter Communications To Launch WiFi Service

Charter Communications Inc. will launch wireless Internet service for its high-speed Internet customers through a new agreement with RemotePipes Inc. of St. Paul, Minn., the companies said Monday. Via [stlouis.bizjournals.com]Continue Reading

Vegas Airport Offers Free Wi-Fi Access

For anyone with a laptop computer, what happens in Vegas needn’t stay in Vegas. Visitors waiting for flights out of town can share their exploits over a public wireless LAN in the airport—for free. Via [eweek.com]Continue Reading

Wi-Fi Networks Slated For Area Downtowns

The wireless fidelity revolution is about to take over downtown Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tempe. Via [msnbc.msn.com]Continue Reading

Guest Internet Access Just Got A Lot Easier

Open sesame. The magical command Ali Baba used to open the door of a robbers’ den has taken on a new meaning at a Canadian law firm. Via [theglobeandmail.com]Continue Reading

Kaohsiung Becomes A Wireless City

Claiming to be the nation’s first “real” mobile city, Kaohsiung City yesterday inaugurated wireless Internet connections in parts of the city to provide free access in the public. Via [taipeitimes.com]Continue Reading

FCC Aims To Boost Airborne Wireless, Internet

U.S. airline travelers may be able to use their mobile telephones as well as get high-speed Internet service while in the air under plans launched by U.S. communications regulators on Wednesday. Via [olympics.reuters.com]Continue Reading

Wi-Fi Network Could Become Nation’s Largest

Atlanta’s ambitious plan to create the nation’s biggest citywide Wi-Fi network is no longer up in the air. Via [msnbc.msn.com]Continue Reading

Vodafone To Offer In-flight Wi-Fi

Vodafone has agreed to allow its mobile data customers to use Boeing’s Connexion in-flight Wi-Fi service, the mobile phone network said last week. Via [theregister.co.uk]Continue Reading

Test Of Wi-Fi On Bremerton Ferry Dropped

Plans to test high-speed wireless Internet – Wi-Fi – service on the Seattle-Bremerton ferry run have been dropped because ferry officials have not been able to secure rights for an antenna in the Blake Island area. Via [seattletimes.nwsource.com]Continue Reading