Google has accepted a fine from the German data protection authority over its mistaken and unused collection of WiFi data using Google Street View cars. The €145,000 fine comes nearly three years after we first learned about the Street View WiFi...
Other benefits include the ability to see what flights are WiFi enabled. After a long delay, Google Flight Search, its airline flight comparison service that has been available in the U.S.since September 2011, has finally arrived in Europe.
Google has announced that it will start to offer free WiFi in some parts of the Manhattan area. The search giant will rollout free WiFi in the Southwest Chelsea part of Manhattan. Free WiFi will be available outdoors and in public spaces of the area.
For example, there were two versions of the spelling of the word WiFi in it. A press release posted to PRWeb announced Google's acquisition of a wireless Internet provider for $400 million. One giant problem: it was a hoax.
WiFi hotspot locations Governments everywhere are opening up their data to the public and third-party developers. Case in point? The New York City Open Data Project kicked off in 2010 and enshrined into law by Mayor Bloomberg in 2012, the effort...
District Court, and the ITC is due to make a decision on 24 August as to whether Apple infringes on a Motorola WiFi patent. Google's Motorola Mobility division has filed a patent infringement claim against Apple over the Siri voice control and...
For example, if you're travelling and want to meet someone for coffee, you can share a coffee search result with your friends, asking them which ones have the best WiFi or which is closest to their office.
Google has admitted it has discovered more WiFi data collected by its Street View cars that it has failed to delete. Google's WiFi data collection incidents gave the company a huge privacy black eye in numerous countries around the globe.
So, it would make sense that the iPad dominates revenue across the board as most of these devices are connected to WiFi and used mainly for browsing. Not only has Google come out and supported a mobile strategy, it comes with specific SEO friendly...
In terms of specifications, buyers will also find integrated NFC, WiFi, Bluetooth, battery life promising 9 hours of video playback, Google's Chrome web browser, and a 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera.
Google Offers is teaming up with Boingo Wireless to offer free WiFi in more than 200 locations in New York City, the companies have announced. The new WiFi service will be available in several MTA subway stations:
In 2006 an engineer working on an experimental WiFi project wrote a piece of code that sampled all categories of publicly broadcast WiFi data. A year later, when our mobile team started a project to collect basic WiFi network data like SSID...
Tablet usage is popular in locations where Wi-Fi access is available, be that a coffee shop or even at home, while mobile phones can be used wherever a cell or wifi signal is available. The super-speed growth in smartphone usage and the cultural...
The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project was a self-installed, ad-supported online service that was offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.
SEOmoz is also promising some prizes to a few lucky participants, including a 16GB Wifi iPad 3 and assorted gift certificates. Attention marketers: If your job includes SEO, social media, content, and organic/inbound marketing, then SEOmoz wants...
Google: WiFi Data Grab Didn't Violate Wiretap Law Google, which collected payload data (including emails, email addresses, user names and passwords, telephone numbers) from unsecured WiFi networks – triggering numerous government investigations and...
Tablets, on the other hand, are primarily being used in the home at this time, with 92 percent of tablet Internet access happening on WiFi networks. Having attended myriad web conferences over the years, we’ve heard most every prediction you can...
In March 2011, a French court fined Google €100,000 for collecting payload data from unencrypted WiFi networks while collecting Street View images for Google Maps. A commercial court in Paris has ordered Google France and parent company Google Inc...
Advertisers can now target mobile devices that are using WiFi, as well as target what type of OS the mobile phone has. WiFi Targeting This new feature will allow you to target mobile devices that have a WIFI connection.
Those categories would include Android features such as being able to set different behaviors for the phone when you're accessing 3G as opposed to WiFi; being able to see different details at different levels of zoom on Google Maps; pulling the...
