Category: Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi clouds over the UK
According to a report on The Register, Nine UK city centres are to get blanket wireless broadband coverage as part of a deal between Wi-Fi operator The Cloud and BT. About 500 BT payphones in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham,…
Find your nearest Wi-Fi hotspot easily
If you want to get some work done on the road, it might help if you could locate your nearest wireless hotspot. Now you can with the ZyXEL AG225H, a small wireless hotspot detector and USB adapter which allows…
Nintendo takes major step in wireless gaming
All credit to the Japanese granddaddy of gaming for never doing anything by halves. November 25th will be a day to remember for anyone who placed their trust in the Nintendo DS to go above and beyond gaming expectations, even…
Wi-Fi airship
There's nothing quite as beautiful as an airship floating across the north London sky, and hopefully we'll be seeing a lot more of them now that boffins at the Chubu University in Japan have come up with a really…
London (almost) tops Euro poll for free Wi-Fi
The guys at free-hotspot.com have taken it upon themselves to track down free wireless internet hotspot across Europe and document it all on the site. London is placed second only to Paris and for the moment the number of these…
Is the end nigh for DAB?
So Wi-Fi internet radio ain't the newest kid on the block, but Acoustic Energy reckons that it may have got the edge over DAB with this device. Compatible with Real, MP3 and WMA format audio, this wireless internet radio…
Torian Infusion drawing closer
This fancy little device is seen as the hottest gadget to emerge from down-under this year. We first feasted out eyes on it at the unveiling at CES 2005 and now Torian has confirmed that it will be hitting…
The multifaceted Pepper Pad
The Pepper Pad is Pepper Computer's offering to the portable wireless market. The really tricky part is defining what it actually does. So it has a 20GB hard drive, is Wi-Fi enabled, an 8.4" display capable of 800 x 600…
Trust releases budget WiFi network locator
If you want to find a WiFi network on the cheap (I'm still not convinced that that Pringle tin things works, dammit!) then you could do worse than the Trust WiFi hotspot finder (you may remember Trust as those enterprising…
M1NT member's bar to offer free WiFi
Okay, in our WiFi watch we've come up with some pretty exotic places that offer the internet. The north pole for one. Little Chef for another. And the m1nt bar in London looks like its set to join the ranks…