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 any wifi-enabled device. Well, maybe almost anywhere.

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 lounge at Logan. Got that? Continental is providing…

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 grenade launcher, point and shoot, and out…

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 some time now. However, a proposal by the…

With the 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 us remind you to be very careful when booking your travel arrangements online, and be wary of search engine advertisements for cheap airline ticket sites which are actually phishing sites.

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.

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 the lobbyists took it to a…

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 citizens of these cities, from having access to municipal…

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, not drugs. While the number of customers who…

Company Continues to Expand Municipal Broadband Solutions Business LOUISVILLE, May 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — U.S. Wireless Online, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: UWRL) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Verge Wireless Networks, Inc. have “lit up” Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles with Wi-Fi broadband coverage. Verge Wireless, which was selected by the Community…

Several major airlines are now offering high speed Internet access to their passengers. Scandinavian airlines has just announced their offering on all long-haul routes, and Lufthansa’s in-air high speed Internet access has been in place for the better part of a year. In fact, all told, there are at least…

Are you worried about your neighbors tapping in to and using your home wireless computer network? Or, worse, about wardrivers hijacking your wifi and using it to send a run of spam? Well, a Sunnyvale, California company has a suggestion for you: paint your house. “But,” you whine, “my problem…

The Federal Communications Commission today gave the nod of approval to allow wireless networking on airplanes. The intent is to allow the wireless access to piggy-back on existing air-to-ground radio transmissions which already exist in the cabin of the airplane. This would obviously be a boon for business travelers, Internet…