If you live in New York City, or are just coming in for a visit, finding free Wi-Fi just got a whole lot easier. Gowex, a company specializing in setting up what it calls Wireless Smart Cities, has announced that it has deployed 1,953 Wi-Fi smart zones through out New York City. The new access points are spred out between Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn and the Bronx and...
Free Wi-Fi is becoming so common place that you can go just about anywhere these days and find a connection. However, this raises a serious security question about whether or not the connection you’re seeing is legitimate or not. Are you sure you aren’t logging into a hacker filled connection that is going to try to steal information off your computer as you check your e-mail? As you...
Free Wi-Fi is becoming so ubiquitous in coffee shops that there has been an actual backlash by some to offer “Wi-Fi Free Zones” so that you don’t have worry about every table being dominated by people with laptops and iPads. Despite some rebelling against the trend, just about every business seems to be getting into the game even to the point that Sam’s Club, the wholesale club arm of...
With the switch being thrown on July 1st at Starbucks corporate stores to give free Wi-Fi to its customers, you almost have to wonder if this going to become an obligation of all service type businesses so that they can make sure to keep their customers. Over the past few years we have seen free Wi-Fi creeping into all types of businesses, and while it was originally an added perk of...