Starting in September, the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will offer free WiFi access using AT&T’s Wi-Fi hotspot network, but they’ll have to watch a 30-second video ad for every 40 minutes of web surfing they do, says Kevin Fitchard in GigaOm. So far the trial is confined solely to DFW and required special permission from [...]
PC World has a very interesting article entitled, Ten Ways Your Smartphone Knows Where You Are There are at least 10 different systems in use or being developed that a phone could use to identify its location. In most cases, several are used in combination, with one stepping in where another becomes less effective. Seth [...]
Yapp, a New York startup founded in 2011, today announced a beta product that “lets you create a mobile app invites” that can be downloaded by friends. Apps can be created for iPhones and Android, and is available in limited beta. Here’s how it works. Visit Yapp.us and select a template or theme for your [...]
Early feedback from British Telecom’s White Space trial (IEEE 802.22) on the Isle of Bute, left some unimpressed with its speed and performance. The pilot programme on the Isle of Bute involves a transmitter at a tiny exchange near the community of Kilchattan Bay, from which a broadband signal is transmitted to 10 homes participating [...]
The city of San Jose is planning a new, free WiFi network, just a few years after such networks were declared all but dead, reports Network World. San Jose’s new municipal wireless network will replace the city’s MetroFi network, built in 2004, and similar to one MetroFi partially built for Portland, before the company crashed [...]
The 2012 iPad has a massive 42.5 Whr battery. You can use the iPad as a mobile hotspot for about 25 hours, according to AnandTech. That’s with the display off. With the display turned on you might get 8 hours of shared WiFi. Could the iPad be ruggedized with gesture recognition to make an effective [...]
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