Facebook is offering free Wi-Fi in exchange for their physical coordinates. The initiative began in May 2012, reports Wired, and now “Facebook Wi-Fi” has been deployed in cafes around Palo Alto and San Francisco, and even into a line of Meraki routers made by Cisco. Facebook Wi-Fi asks users to “check in” at the business [...]
The Wi-Fi Alliance this week kicked off its certification program for 802.11ac, the new 5 GHz beam forming standard. Products conforming to 802.11ac can deliver whole-home coverage at two or three times the speed of older Wi-Fi products and can handle 4K video. The 802.11ac standard, also known as 802.11 VHT (Very High Throughput), uses [...]
Kaplan’s TechStars-powered startup accelerator — the latest to launch for education entrepreneurs — is announcing the startups in its inaugural class, reports GigaOm. Kaplan is a leading international provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools, and businesses. The Kaplan EdTech Accelerator will select startups using technology to create products and services across the [...]
In a White House memorandum today, President Barack Obama laid out plans to promote spectrum sharing for federal agencies and proposed new spectrum in the unlicensed 5 GHz band. The NTIA identified 95 MHz in 1755-1850 MHz band for potential shared use. The President’s memorandum also mentioned three other swathes of spectrum below 6 GHz [...]
Ruckus Wireless and Globalstar today announced a successful test of Wi-Fi spectrum using Globalstar’s adjacent licensed Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) spectrum. Using the 2.4 GHz band, and carrier-grade Smart Wi-Fi equipment manufactured by Ruckus Wireless, existing smartphones were enabled to operate over the new channel via firmware upgrade. This new Terrestrial Low Power Service (TLPS), [...]
The annual cable show is going on in the U.S. capital this week. Hot topics include compression chips, TelcoTV, and getting rid of free public Wifi. On Monday, Comcast made two WiFi announcements that will expand their network, explains C/Net. The first is the launch of a new home-based, neighborhood hot-spot initiative, in which subscribers [...]
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