The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has served Google notice that it must delete any WiFi data it collected through its Street View operations within 35 days, but did not find enough evidence to levy a fine.
The free WiFi offer comes in a partnership with the Chelsea Improvement Company, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and New York Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication. Google has announced that it will start to offer free WiFi...
For example, there were two versions of the spelling of the word WiFi in it. The story was reported on by the Associated Press and numerous technology publications, including TechCrunch. A press release posted to PRWeb announced Google's...
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.
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. Avoid Flash: iPads make up more than 90 percent of all tablet traffic and they don’t render Flash...
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...
Google's defense was that this language applies to open WiFi networks. According to Wired, "the [Street View] cars also secretly gathered snippets of Americans’ data," and Ware ruled that "the packets were not readable by the general public without...
France Fines Google for Street View WiFi Data Grab by Danny Goodwin Baidu to introduce anti-piracy technology for books product - Reuters The Slippery Slope of SEO by Josh McCoy Recent algorithmic updates didn't just hurt the bad guys and clean up...
Google begins to delete last of UK wifi data - The Telegraph Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen believes that most of the Silicon Valley tech giants have built their businesses around technology that he owns the patents on.
Google Chrome Giving Free Inflight WiFi Becoming Holiday Tradition by Frank Watson Google Chrome announced it will be giving holiday travelers the gift of free inflight WiFi again this year. Google launches first African voice recognition...
Owners/users of the iPhone 4 can make the free calls to friends using the iPhone, Android and Nokia devices over 3G and Wifi.fring is notably also providing technology to GoogleTalk and Twitter but Skype "is refusing to allow fring to restore...
Or, if you prefer, you can go to Times Square and use your Wifi-enabled device to access TimesSquare.com (provided you can grab a Wifi signal) and be completely ironic with yourself. Mogulus will provide the streaming technology.
Today we are adding WiFi signals to the Geolocation API so that laptop users can benefit from location enabled web sites for the first time. A supporting technology for this scenario has started to gain steam over the past few months.
Google's My Location Now with WiFi Posted by Nathania Johnson Oct 22, 2008 Google's My Location technology is cool. Now, Google is outfitting My Location with the ability to use WiFi access . Building a Data-Driven Organization BY THE NUMBERS...
Now, Google is outfitting My Location with the ability to use WiFi access points in determining location. Google's My Location technology is cool. When I'm using my iPhone, I just hit a button and it gets a pretty close assessment of where I am...
As Wifi expands, local and mobile search continue to emerge Expected to be available for iPhones in Japan as early as June, the technology makes cameras an integral part of the mobile search process. Evolution Robotics is preparing to introduce a...
Expanding Wifi will have major implications for mobile search. If the FCC goes along with the request, and if Google wins airwaves, then devices supporting the technology will be out as early as next year.
Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Bidding Against Google For WiFi AccessAllen heads an investment company called Vulcan Capital and is a majority shareholder in U.S.cable operator Charter Communications.
