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 [...]
Google earned more than half of the $8.8 billion advertisers worldwide spent on mobile ads last year, reports E-Marketer. The company accounted for nearly one-third of all digital ad dollars spent globally, according to eMarketer’s first-ever figures on worldwide digital and mobile advertising revenues. eMarketer estimates that Google made $4.61 billion in mobile internet ad [...]
Top law enforcement officials from New York and San Francisco will ask for help on Thursday from the companies that make those devices. They want smartphone makers to be smarter about security. In the U.S., one-third of robberies involve the theft of a mobile device, the FCC reported last year. More than half of all [...]
Apple’s annual developer conference, which begins today, is expected to show an overhauled mobile operating system for iPhones and iPads, reports the WSJ, as well as new laptops and a streaming music service. Live coverage of the event is available from C/Net, TechCrunch, PC Pro, AnandTech, GigOm, The Verge, and Engadget. Apple is streaming the [...]
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