Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa outlined plans Tuesday to blanket Los Angeles with wireless Internet access in 2009, in what would be one of the nation’s largest urban Wi-Fi networks.
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Avis Rental Cars Are Wi-Fi Hotspots
By 2.3.07 — Updated: 9.8.16
According to an Avis press release, soon you will be able to turn your rental car into a portable wi-fi hot spot. Yay, internet while driving. We suppose this is more awesome than driving around searching for an open network or a Panera Bread….
Protect Yourself While Using Free Wi-Fi
By 2.1.07
Connecting to a hot spot can be an open invitation to danger. Hot spots are public, open networks that practically invite hacking and snooping. They use unencrypted, insecure connections, but most people treat them as if they are secure private networks.
T-Mobile’s Hotspot Refund System Encourages Breakage?
By 12.4.06
A crinkle appeared in our once happy story of how easy it was for us to get a refund from T-mobile hotspot.
Demand A T-Mobile Hotspot Refund And Get It
By 11.30.06
T-mobile’s hotspot this morning in the Charlotte airport didn’t let us on the internet, but were still charged $9.99. Visions of David Berlind’s similar battle dancing in our eyes, we called up T-Mobile, demanded a refund, and got it. Word.
Finally Found Nice WiFi Spot in Brooklyn
By 9.13.06
Maybe it was so hard to find the perfect Brooklyn blog spot because it didn’t exist. Barnes and Noble and their lack of electrical outlets certainly didn’t do it. In The Tea Lounge we ended up pulling the Pacman machine cord just to get the publicly breast-fed toddlers away. Then, moments before the razor penetrated our wrist flesh, Palo Santo opened.
UPDATE: T-Mobile Hotspot: Wham, Bam, But No Thanks
By 7.22.06
On Wednesday, ZDnet blogger David Berlind posted a call of his attempts to extract a refund from T-Mobile hotspot but it’s not until today that he found complete satisfaction.
T-Mobile Hotspot: Wham, Bam, But No Thanks
By 7.19.06
Much like beer and hotdogs at the ballpark, airports take advantage of your momentary entrapment to bend you over for the privilege of wi-fi surfing. Against his better judgment, ZDnet’s David Berlind tried to use the airport’s T-Mobile hotspot and access some important and time-sensitive documents from his office. T-Mobile was more than happy to give him a high signal as he completed the transaction, only for the wifi to completely cut out after they charged his credit card. David recorded his call trying to wrest his dollars back from T-Mobile, listen below.
WiFi or Die, Perhaps the Latter, Barnes & Noble & Starbucks
By 7.14.06
We’re crouching on the floor of a Barnes & Noble in Park Slope, an enfranchised enclave of Brooklyn. The walls of our apartment began to throb and press against our skull, so we escaped, in search of caffeine, wi-fi and a/c. In a perch between the archival scrapbooking section and the leather journals, the sun beats a low hum across our arm and slow cooks our laptop. We glance enviously at the Starbucks tables.
NJ Townsman Fights Verizon on Net Neutrality
By 4.21.06
In the town of Red Bank, NJ Verizon has applied to operate a cable TV service over their fiber optic network, but not everyone is thrilled.
Guides to Best & Worst WiFi Hotels
By 3.28.06
One day, glorious reams of interlocking, free and open wi-fi networks will seamlessly interlace across America. Until then, service remains a plane as broken as a pimpled and pockmarked skater video inhabitant, a matter of special concern for the road warrior.
Ma Bell To Shut Down New Orleans WiFi
By 3.24.06
One of the surprising acts of compassion and competency that came out of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was that the city began providing a free WiFi service to business owners and residents whose phone service had been wiped out. The 512 kbps service allowed many business owners to begin struggling back to their feet and corporate sponsors like Yahoo and Google were in discussion to expand the service in the coming months.
