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Your Wi-Fi Router Might Be Easy to Hack

Robert Siciliano | Posted 05.16.2013 | Technology
Robert Siciliano

Recently I became aware that many if not most home Wi-Fi routers are very easy to hack by cyber criminals.Ā I thought, my mom has Wi-Fi, and so probab...

Off-grid Solar Powered Wi-Fi

Justin Guay | Posted 04.22.2013 | Green
Justin Guay

Ironically, jaldi is actually a Hindi word that means fast and according to company founders the name started almost as a joke. (As you can imagine Wi-Fi connections in rural India are mostly anything but.)

What Is the Future of Content Branding?

Laxmi Hariharan | Posted 05.12.2013 | Media
Laxmi Hariharan

Provide something that makes a real difference to your consumers' lives, and they will come. The days of just providing a simple tune-in message and expecting viewers to come are over; it has to be teamed with engagement tactics and add value to the viewers' lives.

Google Is Finally Paying Up For Street View Snafu

AP | By MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.12.2013 | Technology

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google will pay a $7 million fine to settle a multistate investigation into a snoopy software program that enabled the Internet...

Making Your House as Smart as Your Car and Even Your Phone

Kevin Price | Posted 05.05.2013 | Technology
Kevin Price

Once Steve Jobs put Wi-Fi in the laptop, all the other computer makers and gadget developers followed suit. Wi-Fi is now everywhere. Now, Cees Links and many of the same Dutch engineers are developing the next generation wireless home network - ZigBee.

Flying High, Wirelessly

Fly.com | Posted 11.07.2012 | Travel
Fly.com

Just because an airline says that it offers Wi-Fi does not mean that it will actually be available on your flight. While most major U.S. airlines have adopted some kind of wireless strategy, not all aircrafts have been Wi-Fi enabled. In fact only Virgin America, Alaska Airlines and Delta have deeply embraced the technology across most (if not all) of their fleets.

Subway Wi-Fi A Hit With Straphangers

AP | FAY ABUELGASIM | Posted 10.07.2012 | New York

NEW YORK (AP) — Emily Langmead was hesitant when she first heard of free Wi-Fi in the subway. Like many New Yorkers, she wondered what the catch was...

Using the Summer as a Break From the Internet

Christian Holub | Posted 09.04.2012 | College
Christian Holub

Sometimes the Internet really sucks. Sometimes you need to unplug. Thankfully, I was given an unintentional respite from it for a few weeks.

Lucas Kavner

Where Does The Internet Really Live?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 06.07.2012 | Home

Andrew Blum hadn't really thought about the subject for his new book, "Tubes," until a squirrel chewed through the wires at his Brooklyn apartment and...

Free WiFi If You Subscribe To One Of These Cable Companies

The Huffington Post | Sara Gates | Posted 05.20.2013 | Technology

Five major U.S. cable companies have joined forces to create a giant WiFi network with more than 50,000 hotspots across the nation. The joint effort h...

Study Says We Are About To Enter 'Golden Age Of Public Wi-Fi'

Posted 01.09.2012 | Technology

(Reuters) - The amount of public Internet hotspots (Wi-Fi) globally will grow more than fourfold to 5.8 million by 2015, boosted by consumers increa...

Amtrak Expands Wi-Fi Coverage, But With A Catch

Posted 12.31.2011 | Travel

Rail passengers in the Northeast will no longer have to book seats on Amtrak's pricey Acela to have access to Wi-Fi. Wireless internet access has been...

Wi-Fi Coming To New York City Subways

| Kareem Johnson | Posted 09.25.2011 | New York

CHELSEA -- Straphangers eager to stay in touch with the outside world while traveling underground will soon be able to surf the web at four Chelsea st...

Travel Site Lets You Find Which Flights Have Wi-Fi

Posted 09.19.2011 | Technology

Would you book a different flight if you were certain it had wireless Internet on it? That's what the web savvy folks at Hipmunk are betting on. T...

Since When Did My Free Wi-Fi Become a 'Hotspot?'

Gil Laroya | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Gil Laroya

At this point in the technology of wireless devices, we are all familiar with wi-fi; the service that shares an internet connection wirelessly amongst...

FTC Warns About Public Wi-Fi Hotspot Dangers

Larry Magid | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Larry Magid

The agency says users on public Wi-Fi hotspots should "only log in to sites that are fully encrypted." Encrypted sites have an https at the beginning of their address and typically have a lock in the lower right corner of the browser.

Why Innovation Isn't Just Another Buzz Word

Dean Garfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Dean Garfield

The nation's drive to continue to invest in R&D is stalling at a time when such investment is most needed to keep up with our global competitors. The message? R&D and innovation matter.

Wi-Fi To Come In Much Faster, Short-Range Version

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

NEW YORK — The industry group that supports Wi-Fi is adopting a new technology that should boost data speeds more than 10 times at short distanc...

Adam Black, KeyWifi: 27 Million And Counting

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Lauren Drell | Posted 07.30.2011 | Home

Starting your own business is a noble -- not to mention exciting, rewarding and often crazy -- undertaking. The experience is an adventure, to say the...

Nook 'Lite' Coming Out Soon From Barnes & Noble

Gizmodo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

We're told that Barnes & Noble will be revealing some new products later this year: Nook 2 ("Project Encore") and a Wi-Fi-only Nook Lite. Meanwhile, a...

Starbucks Free Wi-Fi: Coffee Giant To Offer Free Wireless At Most U.S. Locations Next Month

AP | ASHLEY M. HEHER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

CHICAGO — Starbucks Corp. will begin offering unlimited free wireless Internet access at all company-operated U.S. locations starting July 1, pa...

Three Good Reasons to Lock Down Your Wireless Network

Christopher Burgess | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Christopher Burgess

Remember, anyone driving or sitting in proximity to your business, home, or office may be within the exploitable footprint of Wi-Fi signal.

Line2 App Sidesteps AT&T For Better Service

Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

*See update and video below* UPDATE 12:51PM ET 3/26/2010: CSMonitor reports that the Line2 app was pulled from the app store by its creator after i...

Researchers Create Anti Wi-Fi Paint

Piers Fawkes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Piers Fawkes

Researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan have created a special paint which can block out wireless signals by absorbing and blocking the airborne data.

I Hate Airplane WiFi: The Last Bastion of Unreachable Tranquility Disappears Forever...

Marc Ruxin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Marc Ruxin

For me airplane trips, long and short, have always been an oasis of productivity and introspection, professional and personal. For as long as a plane was in the air you were theoretically unreachable.