Tag: HOTSPOT

There's no fury like a blogger unable to access a working Wi-Fi connection. But a new personal device could make it easier to get connected. According to The New York Times, Virgin Mobile USA released the MiFi 2200 wireless Internet hub on Monday. Personal hot spots are nothing new, but Virgin here has taken a different approach to how users pay for said technology. Rather than purchase an extra ...

(WARNING! Explicit lyrics in the above video.) Crunch Gear is running a contest, and a fun one at that. All you have to do is send in a video, via e-mail, YouTube or any other video-sharing service of you going medieval on your land line phone. Take a bat, a crowbar, a 20 pound sledge -- it doesn't matter -- and destroy that vestige of land line-based communication. The best entry wins a prize ...

Our pals over at Engadget got their tech-greedy mitts on T-Mobile's new Hot Spot @ Home service and have some early impressions. Hot Spot @ Home uses a phone with Wi-Fi to switch between the standard cellular GSM network and Wi-Fi connections for unlimited voice over IP minutes. This basically means that you can potentially save mega money and minutes by using WiFi instead of your cell phone ...

Think twice before you connect to that public Wi-Fi hotspot, because you could fall victim to a new and growing menace called an evil twin attack. It goes a little something like this: A ne'er-do-well uses a laptop to set up a clone of the login site you'd see at a place like Starbucks. You're there, sipping some ridiculously named cup of coffee and decide to get online. What you think is the ...

If you have a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop or device, chances are you occasionally get online through hotspots at airports and hotels. Chances are also good that you've seen some pretty high prices. A company called FON hopes to change that by bringing cheap public Wi-Fi to everyone. Thanks to a new deal with Time Warner, it just may succeed. With FON, the idea is simple: Basically, you buy a FON wireless ...