Ina Fried in Mobile on May 23 at 9:31 am PT
The company is shifting bandwidth away from its older 2G network and toward its newer networks. Ma Bell is aiming to convince customers on the older network to upgrade their phones.
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Shalini Ramachandran, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 21 at 11:39 am PT
Five large cable operators said Monday they will join forces to give customers access to each other’s wireless Internet hot spots in the most sweeping Wi-Fi roaming agreement struck by the industry to date.
Liz Gannes in Product News on May 16 at 10:00 am PT
A new start-up called Electric Imp promises to turn almost any product into a connected device with the addition of a tiny card in a slot.
Bonnie Cha in Product News on May 8 at 11:15 am PT
Fujifilm’s latest rugged digital camera will capture all your thrills and spills, and let you easily share them on your social networks.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 7 at 10:00 pm PT
The Wi-Fi provider is expanding its software to connect automatically to more than 70,000 free hotspots, in addition to Boingo’s own network of paid locations.
Liz Gannes in News on May 1 at 3:00 am PT
New York Times reporters appear to have identified the Google engineer who designed a program that had the company’s Street View cars collecting personal info from Wi-Fi networks.
Liz Gannes in News on April 19 at 1:37 pm PT
In Jon Stewart’s words, this week the FCC fined Google “less than you would get for a particularly flashy NFL touchdown dance.”
John Paczkowski in News on April 18 at 3:03 pm PT
The outcry over Google’s Wi-Spy debacle continues.
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Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 15 at 1:18 am PT
The Federal Communications Commission proposed a $25,000 fine on Google Inc., accusing the search giant of deliberately obstructing an investigation into whether the company violated federal rules when its street-mapping service collected and stored data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in 2010.
