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Wi-Fi Alliance announces Passpoint program to start in June

(Phys.org) -- The Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry group bent on making Wi-Fi access more available more easily, has announced that it will begin certifying devices and hot-spot providers (using the Hotspot 2 definition) starting next month ...

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created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure

(AP) -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.

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NY tech fest heralds Silicon Valley of the East

The Big Apple may not have California's weather, but tech fans at New York Internet Week say that in every other way the city is on course to become Silicon Valley 2.0.

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created May 16, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The Sun's crowning glory

(Phys.org) -- Those who experience a total solar eclipse are overwhelmed as they look at the circle of light that surrounds our Sun. Laypeople may find it enchanting, but researchers have been racking their ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Google boss lays out future vision at world's top tech fair

Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt cast a science-fiction vision of the future as the world's top tech fair opened Monday, with the German IT sector predicting record sales in 2012.

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created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

Dropbox co-founder aims to build his own Google, not sell to them

Four years ago, Drew Houston was just another super-smart hacker with ambitions of starting his own company.

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created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Google searchers craved Rebecca Black in 2011

Teen singing sensation Rebecca Black topped a Google Zeitgeist list of hot search subjects marking the spirit of 2011.

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created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Public Wi-Fi convenient, but risky

It seems you can surf the Internet and check your email from virtually anywhere these days - in coffee shops, hotel lobbies, airport terminals and airplane cabins.

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created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

USA Network taps Yap.TV for viewer chats

Cable television's USA Network said it has enlisted Internet startup Yap.TV to tap into the hot trend of people "chatting" online while viewing shows.

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created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hacker drone launches airborne cyber attacks

Computer security specialists showed off a homemade drone aircraft Friday capable of launching airborne cyber attacks, hijacking mobile phone calls, or even delivering a dirty bomb.

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created Aug 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 3

SKorea fines Apple over iPhone data collection

(AP) -- South Korea's communications regulator fined Apple's local operation 3 million won ($2,830) for what it says is the illegal collection of iPhone user location information.

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created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What social media can teach us about ourselves

Today's online experience is really the experience of being part of a gigantic crowd of people, said Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science at Cornell, in a lecture about what social ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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