Tag: WI-FI

Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale (Sports Fan, Under $250) Self-improvement, body-opmtimization technology is coming at us fast and furious, and the Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale is one of the best implementations yet. It's a simple concept: Set up your online profile, and every time you weigh yourself on the scale, your weight and body mass is sent via your Wi-Fi connection to your online account. This ...

As iPhone users know, you're never too far away from a Starbucks and its sweet, free (to iPhone users) Wi-Fi when you need to get your data on. The rest of us can jump online for virtually free as well. Sign up for a free Starbucks Rewards card, put at least $5 on it, and you'll get 2 hours of free Wi-Fi every day, so long as you use your card for a transaction (from loading up more money to ...

Virgin has been offering in-flight Wi-Fi on all of its flights since May, but prices for the convenience of checking Twitter at 30,000 feet have probably stopped some passengers in their tracks. That is, of course, if they've been able to decipher the convoluted pricing scheme: $12.95 for flights longer than 3 hours; $9.95 for flights under 3 hours; $5.95 for red-eyes; and $7.95 if you want to ...

If you have more than one computer or a Wi-Fi phone at home, but no Wi-Fi router, you can still share your Internet connection wirelessly from the PC that's hooked to your modem. The gist is that the main PC broadcasts its Internet connection over its Wi-Fi card and thus acts like a router itself, allowing other devices to connect. For step-by-step instructions, click here for Windows Vista PCs, ...

If your home Wi-Fi network sometimes seems to drag at a snails pace, check if all the PCs on your network have the same speed wireless cards (Wi-Fi or 802.11 comes in three main speeds: in order of slower to faster, b, g and n). It turns out that Wi-Fi routers run only as fast as the slowest device on the network. So even if you have a new "n" router, a new desktop PC with a speedy 802.11n ...

Southwest got official with its Wi-Fi plans late last month, but avid travelers who favor the only airline worth flying anymore (okay, Virgin America and JetBlue aren't bad either) were left wondering about most of the details. Today, the company has fired up a single Row 44-equipped flight, and it has announced plans to equip three more airplanes with in-flight WiFi by early next month. ...

Scientists use computer simulations to model all sorts of things, from the spread of weather patterns to the spread of disease. But a quartet of researchers at the Indiana University School of Informatics are actually using a computer simulation to simulate other computers, attempting to determine how quickly a widespread attack on public Wi-Fi access points would spread across its user base. ...

Users of Google's Gmail service can now check their e-mail without an Internet connection, Gmail engineer Andy Palay announced yesterday afternoon via the Offical Gmail Blog. The feature, which doesn't seem to be showing up in our Gmail Labs yet for some reason, depends upon a program called Gears that downloads and regularly updates a cache of your Gmail messages. So, while your computer is ...

Next up on the list of "things going futuristic"? The soda machine. Samsung's touchscreen uVending machines are network and Wi-Fi enabled, meaning owners can monitor their stock before the machine runs dry, or even remotely update the information being displayed on its screen. Apparently, it even has an onboard sensor that will send out a warning if it detects physical shock, and a built-in ...

If you thought Eye-Fi was a great invention already, then boy, do we have a treat for you. Here at CES, the outfit made famous for pumping out delightfully simple Wi-Fi SD cards for wireless image uploading is taking the next logical step by embracing video. It's currently developing a system that will enable its Wi-Fi SD cards to upload videos directly to YouTube, and if you reckoned the first ...

As we've often lamented, there simply isn't enough free or open Wi-Fi access in public spaces anymore. It's rare that you'll find a hot-spot that either doesn't require a password or some kind of fee to access it, making the prevalent use of Wi-Fi-enabled laptops, MP3 players, smart phones, and other wireless devices somewhat difficult (we wouldn't care, except that certain gadgets, such as ...

They always knew it could be done; that a hacker with enough time and processing power could watch your WPA-protected wireless network and, eventually, decrypt your precious datas. In under 15 minutes, though? "Inconceivable!" those hypothetical security experts would say -- but they're about to get a lesson from Wi-Fi wizard Erik Tews. He'll be giving a presentation next week at the PacSec ...

We've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of in-flight Wi-Fi here in the U.S., and just when it was starting to get to the point where we could finally expect to get our surfing on at 30,000 feet, a whole new controversy springs up that has everyone wanting to shut the tech off again. The issue is people surfing questionable (a.k.a. porn) content while flying the friendly skies, and different ...

The vast majority of college students have been found -- in a recent survey -- to highly value Wi-Fi, according to an article we found on Propeller.com and TechnologyExpert. Conducted by Wakefield Research, the study found that 90-percent of college students characterize Wi-Fi access as indispensable to their education. Close to 60-percent of them claimed that the availability of free wireless ...

Good news for those of you spending this autumn in sunny Iraq: According to Aruba Networks, the company has installed a secure Wi-Fi network in Iraq to provide Internet access for U.S. soldiers. The service is being provided to 20,000 U.S. soldiers serving at Joint Base Balad (the largest U.S. military base in the region). For the first time since the start of the war, soldiers are now able to ...