Lifehacker:
Google offered up everything but a finished Chrome OS today, releasing its source code and explaining how it's different than other operating systems. Here are the features, functions, and screenshots you'll want to know abou (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
If you thought “huh?” when network supremo Cisco bought out Pure Digital - the maker of the Flip camera - earlier this year, then we at last have some reason for the purchase. A spokesman from Cisco has confirmed that a new F (Read More)
Lifehacker:
iPhone/Windows Mobile/Android/Symbian: Fring, the app that means to let anyone make free Skype, Google Talk, MSN, or SIP calls from any phone, has hit Android. It works just as expected, over EDGE, 3G, or Wi-Fi. Making free S (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
Cisco has confirmed that the next version of the Flip Video camera, everyones favorite tiny video camera, is getting Wi-Fi. The model is described as having “a large screen that slides to reveal the record and menu buttons un (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
As the self-proclaimed “biggest fan of the WD TV Live” ’round these parts, I figured I owed it to my fellow enthusiasts to share some good news about this lovely HD media player. Western Digital has released the first new fir (Read More)
Network World NetFlash:
A new report from a mobile security vendor details how the most popular smartphones, including the iPhone, are very vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, carried out via public Wi-Fi connections. (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Banner ads are common on free iPhone apps: Mobile ad network AdMob -- acquired by Google for $750 million this month -- took requests for 2.6 billion of them in September. Now AdMob is going to start rolling out interactive v (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Adam thinks XBMC is the best media center around, but I roll with Boxee for its awesome content apps. Here's how I turned a relatively cheap, yet surprisingly powerful home theater PC into a DIY Boxee Box for my HDTV. Why go (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
It’s a good time to be an airport Wi-Fi advertiser. According to a study just released by JiWire, the folks behind a lot of airport Wi-Fi, most people that use airport W-iFi are loaded and spend a good amount of time online w (Read More)
BBC:
A major Wiltshire town is to become the first in the UK to offer free public wireless internet access to its entire population, it was claimed. (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
It’s getting harder and harder to be surprised about the MPAA’s silly tactics. So, surprise! The MPAA has successfully shut down an Ohio town’s municipal Wi-Fi network because one person was caught illegally downloading a mov (Read More)
BBC:
Three years ago, I filed a series of reports from South Korea, intended to give a glimpse of our high-tech future - and it seemed clear that one phenomenon - mobile television - would be heading our way... presently.In Seoul, (Read More)
Network World NetFlash:
The approval of the 802.11n wireless standard marks not the end but the start of a wave of Wi-Fi innovation. Here are eight ways it will change in the next three to five years. (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
Eye-Fi has added a small, nerdy, but significant new feature to its Wi-Fi-enabled SD memory cards: FTP transfers. While beaming your photos straight to a sharing site such as Flickr is a very sweet trick, not everyone wants t (Read More)
Boing Boing:
The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town's municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie. Rather than being embarrassed by this gross example of collective punishment (a practi (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Enticed by Google's free airport Wi-Fi to lug along a laptop this holiday season? PC World reminds us that taking a few precautions in how you connect is a very wise move. Photo by Mr.Thomas. Google's Wi-Fi hotspots will prob (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale already stands out in your bathroom: sleek, smooth and fully functional, the very opposite of the sagging meat sack you drag into the shower every morning. Now it can beam your insecurities to your p (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
Well, the spirit of giving arrived a little early this year! For my birthday last month, Google announced it was partnering to offer free Wi-Fi on all Virgin America flights until January 15th. Great, thanks Google, now I hav (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Google is sponsoring free wireless Internet in a select group of 47 airports from now through mid-January. (In addition to sponsoring free wi-fi on Virgin America flights.)Read the rest of this story »See Also:Google Offers M (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Delayed flights and hold-overs won't tempt you with $10-a-day Wi-Fi this holiday season. That's because Google has bought out web service at 47 airports through Jan. 15, 2010, and offers it free, assuming you don't mind a lit (Read More)