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...
Additionally, this version allows users to target WiFi traffic by using the device targeting tool while the Edit Settings section is ready to help advertisers to customize different exclusion and targeting methods.
Samsung 5 WiFi: $349 Acer AC-700 WiFi: $299 Additionally, Samsung is now offering a black version of their WiFi-only model (previously available only in pearl). Then, earlier this month, Google partnered with Virgin yet again to offer free in...
The location of WiFi access points, both in residential and commercial areas, are stored in a Google database that gives the approximate location of each router. The primary use of the location database is to allow smartphone users to find their...
The European Commission is still determining Google’s degree of dominance, Google is providing an WiFi location opt-out service; Google has announced that it will delete 3.6 million Dutch WiFi SSIDs, and Google Analytics has been un-banned in...
Google's defense was that this language applies to open WiFi networks. Lawsuits have flown freely since, and a recent ruling has opened the field to charges of wiretapping. Google is now appealing that ruling.
Google has worked with Virgin America before, giving free WiFi access on their flights during the year-end holiday season. Guess they are returning the favor of the extra business they must have gotten during the holiday season due to the free WiFi...
The study looks at (according to the official comScore release) "share of smartphone and feature phone usage by OS"; "carrier share of smartphone traffic"; "OS share of carrier traffic"; "traffic to site content categories by carrier, OS, and...
Cost: $349 for the WiFi only version, $429 for the built-in 3G version. Cost: $429 for WiFi only version, $499 for built-in 3G Google's Chromebook is finally a real, live, (metaphorically) breathing thing.
The problems in the US started with the leaking of information about Buzz users, while the Canadian issues stem from the collection of information during Google's WiFi gathering of information for Google Maps and Places.
Officials in Seoul investigated Google in January, concluding Google's Street View cars had also illegally obtained information about WiFi networks and other personal data from over 600,000 South Korean wireless users.
The food wasn't organic, the wifi was spotty at best, absolutely no cell coverage, (yelp reviews were so wrong on that one) and no one spoke English. Less than 48 hours after news of the killing of Osama bin Laden, related searches are still...
