Health Scare Sparks Rush to Dump Wi-Fi
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A HEALTH scare over wireless internet systems has led to hundreds of Londoners disconnecting their systems.
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A new report warns that cities considering municipal Wi-Fi shouldn&#8217;t fool themselves into believing that the experience will be as routine as running water, gas and electricity systems.
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More than a thousand people who phoned in for assistance too often -- at least in the company's eyes -- find themselves suddenly cut off from wireless service.
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The Internet service provider is hoping to find a buyer for its drastically scaled back--and doomed?--municipal Wi-Fi business, the CEO announces.
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Your security consultants just gave your wireless networks a clean bill of health? Fine, but Jon Espenschied says you'd better enjoy the calm while you can.
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Backers of a Philadelphia Wi-Fi project are worried that a bill going through the state legislature would spike a plan to blanket the city with free or inexpensive wireless access. [Broadband Blog]
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An effort to create a nationwide wireless network for firefighters, police and other emergency responders has hit a stumbling block as the Federal Communications Commission's auction for airwaves dedicated for public-safety use has attracted paltry interest from bidders.
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After a warning from a government watchdog group, schools and families in Britain are scrambling to remove Wi-Fi systems.   In April, a chief health watchdog official called for a timely review of Wi-Fi technology and its possible radiation effects, the Independent on Sunday reported.
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Municipal Wi-Fi, full of promise and hype over the past two years, has hit the wall of reality in the U.S. because of economics, politics and even the technology.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In a perfect world, there'd be no wires. They clutter the view, get tangled behind desks and limit how far networks can reach. That's why the telegraph gave way to the radio. Cell phones unstrung telecommunications. Wi-Fi liberated computer data.
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Wireless security threats are overhyped and easily stopped. You have bigger things to worry about, says a Computerworld editor.
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Using the internet to manage a chronic illness can leave you in worse health than before you logged on, a review of recent studies has found.
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As more travelers carry BlackBerrys and hotels install Wi-Fi, the traditional business center is becoming obsolete.
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Microsoft research found that municipal Wi-Fi is plagued by end-user problems, but demand is still high.
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The company's wireless security technologies are flying off the shelves.
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The built-in Wi-Fi on Apple iPhones is overloading Duke University's hotspots; the cause of the problem is still unknown.
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HAT a liberating feeling it is to cut the cord and go wireless, taking a suddenly untethered laptop, for example, and heading for the couch or porch swing to work on the Internet.