AT&T Shuffles Resources in New York in Push for Faster Data, Fewer Dropped Calls

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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Five Cable Firms to Share Wi-Fi Hot Spots

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.

iPhone Engineer and Gmail Designer Team Up on Electric Imp to Connect Devices

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.
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Fujifilm’s Rugged XP170 Camera Goes Wireless

Fujifilm’s latest rugged digital camera will capture all your thrills and spills, and let you easily share them on your social networks.
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Boingo Adds VPN and Crowdsource Hotspot Data to Its Wi-Fi Software

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.
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Google’s “Rogue” Wi-Fi Engineer Seems to Be a Longtime “Wardriving” Developer

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.
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Jon Stewart Finds the Humor in the FCC Fining Google (Video)

In Jon Stewart’s words, this week the FCC fined Google “less than you would get for a particularly flashy NFL touchdown dance.”
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Markey, EPIC Won’t Let Google Wi-Spy Die

The outcry over Google’s Wi-Spy debacle continues.
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FCC Proposes $25,000 Fine on Google

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.