If you are among the legion of annoyed laptop toters who felt that the price to use T-mobile wi-fi at Starbucks was outrageous - particularly when there are so many coffee shops offering free w-ifi (and better coffee) these days - well, apparently Starbucks agrees with you. Because Starbucks and AT&T have just announced that Starbucks has jumped ship from Tmobile, and is now going to be offering AT&T wifi in its 7000 locations. And just one drink a month at Starbucks turns it into free wi-fi!
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If you are among the legion of annoyed laptop toters who felt that the price to use T-mobile wi-fi at Starbucks was outrageous - particularly when there are so many coffee shops offering free w-ifi (and better coffee) these days - well, apparently Starbucks agrees with you. Because Starbucks and AT&T have just announced that Starbucks has jumped ship from Tmobile, and is now going to be offering AT&T wifi in its 7000 locations. And just one drink a month at Starbucks turns it into free wi-fi! If your Blackberry isn't working, you're not alone. Neither is anybody else's. In fact, Research in Motion (RIM) is experiencing what may be their largest network outage ever, affecting users of their (overly)popular Blackberry device around the world. Reports from the U.S., Canada, and the UK abound. Quite a few people have by now read about AOL's new Skyhook "Near Me" buddys plug-in. That's the plugin for the service which lets you know if any of your buddies are geographically near to you, and puts them in a "Near Me" buddies group. But what far fewer people realize is exactly how it works. How does it know when you are near one of your buddies? The answer may surprise - and concern - you. Does your computer suffer from embarassing data seepage? Does data seep from your wifi-enabled laptop, telling the world a bit more than you'd intended? The folks at Errata Security say "yes", and are offering the code for their Ferret program for free. Ferret tells you just exactly what data is seeping from your computer. Network neutrality, laws requiring dating sites to perform background checks and ISPs to rat out their users, laws banning anonymous posting, and cyber bullying legislation. Is it all part of a move towards a nanny Internet? Brian Tanner was parked outside his local public library in Palmer, Alaska, using their free wifi, when police confiscated his laptop. It's true that he was using it to check in on his Internet-based game, Conquer Club (similar to Risk) - but it's also true that Brian Tanner, who is 21, is a moderator for the Conquer Club portal, and so it's not a case of some teenager with an Internet game addiction. Ever had the situation where you are sitting in a Starbucks, or some other Tmobile Hotspot, and you want to use the hotspot network - and your computer can't find the T-Mobile Hotspot server? I mean, the URL simply doesn't work and you get an error message from your browser? Well, here's the work-around. Avis, the car rental company known for their "We Try Harder" slogan, may want to change that slogan to "We Drive Wired". You see, Avis is offering wifi in their rental cars. The new Nintendo Wii may have a funny and hard to remember name (is it the Nintendo Wii? Nintendo Wie? Nintendo Wee? Whee? Oui?), but it has managed to do what no other gamebox has done before - revolutionize game box gaming by incorporating genuine real-gesture remote control. It's also got built in Internet wi-fi access, and Bluetooth. T-Mobile has announced the debut of their unlimited wifi phone (think VOIP) service, called "Hotspot @Home". For only $20.00 per month, you can make unlimited Hotspot@Home calls from, well, your Hotspot at home, as well as from any Tmobile Hotspot location. T-Mobile is also selling two new handsets designed to work seamlessly with the service through their The Only Phone You Need website. Nokia has launched a new wireless protocol called "Wibree". Wibree is similar to Bluetooth in that it allows wireless communication (not "wifi", which specifically refers to wireless internet communications) between two devices. However unlike Bluetooth, Wibree is designed for and aimed at smaller applications which require low power, such as watches, and chips in sports monitors such as pedometers. In fact, despite a lot of media coverage comparing Wibree to Bluetooth, Wibree is not only not intended to replace or compete with Bluetooth, Wibree is intended as an adjunct to Bluetooth. The new Nikon CoolPix S7c has built in wifi, and if you purchase it and sign up before September 2007, you can get twelve free months of T-Mobile hotspot service for your wifi camera. Remember when we told you about Alexander Erik Smith, the man charged with theft of services for repeatedly using the free wifi offered by the Brewed Awakenings coffee shop in Orchard, Washington? Well, Alexander Erik Smith has pleaded guilty to trespass in the case. Alex Eric Smith parked his truck outside the Brewed Awakenings coffee shop regularly for months, using Brewed Awakenings' free wifi without buying anything. Now he has been charged with theft of services. Massachusetts start-up MicroCHIPS has announced that they have developed a technology using "off-the shelf electronic components and a handheld wireless communication device." The way that it works is that they implant a small chip, about the size of a postage stamp, under your ... President Bush has proposed taxing the use of wifi (wireless), and is proposing a "user fee" for use of the spectrum which includes wifi! Free wifi for Sunnyvale! Hurrah! MetroFi has brought free wifi for Sunnyvale online this week! Google free wifi is coming to Mountain View, California. While no date has yet been announced, Mountain View mayor Matt Neely says that the free Google wifi will come to Mountain View "in the very near future." A law being proposed in New York would mandate wireless network security by making it illegal to maintain an unsecured wireless network. Wifi digital cameras are here, with offerings from Canon, as well as Nikon and Kodak. Nintendo DS games can be played over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection at McDonalds around the country. Would you like free wifi with that? American Airlines, along with Continental Airlines and Delta Airlines, have been ordered to stop operating free wireless hotspot locations by Logan Airport. The wireless hotspot locations compete with Logan's Internet access service, for which they charge $8.00 a day. Google Wifi, or Goog-Fi, has been quietly launched, along with Google Secure Access, a free piece of software you can use with Google Wifi to help make the connection more secure. The city of Seattle is testing out wireless Internet access on public transportation, namely buses. The wifi-enabled buses are currently servicing two routes, with plans to expand the test to others. Nikon has introduced a new wifi camera, with built-in wireless LAN support. The new CoolPix P1 and CoolPix P2 wifi cameras sport full wifi capabilities, and are on sale now. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which so far has taken the lives of 68 people in a ferocious howling storm the likes of which had not been seen since Hurricane Camille in 1969, T-Mobile in an act of largesse opens up their wifi wireless Internet Hotspots to the citizens of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Is Google Wifi around the corner? Rumours are flying that Google is secretly setting up a unbiquitous free wifi service (which Aunty now officially christens "Goog-fi") which would allow users anywhere to access the Internet (and Google, of course) for free from ... Greedy, greedy, greedy. That's the only way to describe Boston's Logan Airport and the Massachusetts Port Authority, who are demanding that Continental Airlines cease and desist in offering free wifi wireless Internet access to Continental passengers in the Continental Airlines Presidents Club ... It seems that "Firefly" is a popular name for small, portable devices this month. First we had the Firefly cell phone for children, and now we have the Firefly "145 g unguided projectile" ballistic camera. Yep, you load this little baby into a ... Ever since the FCC approved wireless Internet access on U.S. flights, the promise of fly-fi on domestic flights has titillated U.S. passengers. Up until then, fly-fi had eluded domestic U.S. flights, although fly-fi has been available on European and Asian flights for ... With the summer travel season upon us, here's how to find out whether an airport offers free wireless Internet access ("wifi"), so that you can use your laptop to find a place to sleep if you're stuck at the airport. But first, let Aunty ... Florida, the state known for not being able to keep pants on their spammers, has become what is believed to be the first state in the nation to prosecute someone for using someone else's open wifi. Mind you, there is no evidence that Benjamin ... It seems like just yesterday that Aunty told you about how ISP and broadband providers are lobbying to prevent municipal wifi, which would keep you from being able to have city-wide free wifi such as some cities are now offering. Well, apparently some of ... You may have heard about the cities which are coming online and offering free wifi on a city-wide (municipal) basis. What you probably haven't heard about is the fights which often go on behind the scenes to keep you, the good ... Some coffee shops are starting to tell their customers to "drop in, turn off, and tune in". Only unlike Timothy Leary, who uttered the original and infamous "turn on, tune in, and drop out", the coffee shops are talking about free wifi, ... Several major airlines are now offering high speed Internet access to their passengers. 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