Wi-Fi

Daily Tech Deal: Quidco offers cashback on BT Total Broadband

Today's tech deal brings you word of a deal being run by Quidco - apparently the UK's leading cashback website - and BT - the telecommunications behemoth.

Quidco is offering cashback over a wide range of BT's home products, with BT's broadband, phone and BT...

Roberts launches two new Stream internet radios

Roberts has announced new internet radios into its range that will go on sale in the UK in time for the Christmas present buying frenzy.

The Wi-Fi range sees the addition of the new Last.fm-enabled Stream 83i Wi-Fi/DAB/FM RDS digital stereo radio offering...

Next-gen Flip camcorder to boast Wi-Fi

Cisco will launch a new Wi-Fi-enabled Flip digital camcorder to go on sale in the early half of 2010, Pocket-lint has learnt.

The new model will be the first to leverage Cisco's networking technology since it bought Pure Digital in a multi-million dollar...

BT Openzone adds 11,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the globe

BT has announced its Openzone customers now have an extra 11,000 Wi-Fi locations to choose from with the addition of a host of new providers to the service across the globe.

Beeline WiFi, ChungHwa, eService Bar, Monzoon, Wireless G and WAYPORT EMEA have all...

Swindon announces free Wi-Fi for all

Swindon has just become a property hotspot - quite literally - as it's been announced it will be the first town in the UK to offer free public Wi-Fi access to its entire population.

The forward thinking members of Swindon Borough Council have revealed plans...

Phones4U stores to offer free Wi-Fi

Technically the Wi-Fi roll-out across Phones4U stores in the UK is meant for staff and customers to be able to test the handsets on sale online, but unofficially there's a new place in town to head if you need a cheeky online fix.

Phones4U has become Freerunner's...

Google to provide free Wi-Fi in US airports this Christmas

Google has announced it will offer US airport frequenters one of the most precious gifts of all this holiday season - free Wi-Fi.

Bringing joy to all men (and women, and teenagers) Google is working with airports across the country to offer the service until...

Xbox Wireless-n adaptor on sale now?

Remember the 802.11n Wi-Fi adaptor for the Xbox 360, which appeared in an FCC filing in the States back in September? Well, it appears that it's real and it's on shelves in Asda, if the above picture from Engadget is accurate.

The pic puts the price at £50, slightly...

Motorola launches digi-frames with dual displays and Wi-Fi

Motorola has launched a new range of digital photo frames, including dual display frames and a Wi-Fi model that allows images to be sent directly to the frame by email.

The LS1000W offers a 10.4-inch display, boasts 512 MB built-in memory, MP3 player and speakers,...

Pure Siesta Flow will hit shops in time for Christmas

Pure has announced that its new Siesta Flow will hit shop shelves in the UK in time for Christmas.

The company's first internet connected bedside radio, it boasts an alarm tone for every day of the year via Pure's online portal, including sleigh bells,...

TalkTalk takes aim at three-strikes proposals

ISP TalkTalk has performed a Wi-Fi hacking stunt in a street in Middlesex to prove how innocent people could lose their web access under proposals set out by Lord Mandelson and supported by the major record labels.

One of TalkTalk's security experts set up a laptop...

Bluetooth-rivalling Wi-Fi Direct announced

Your Wi-Fi-enabled gadgetry is about to get a whole lot more connected thanks to a new specification just announced by the Wi-Fi Alliance.

We say new, technically it was previously known as Wi-Fi peer-to-peer, however, it is now due with the shiny new moniker...

Mobile Wi-Fi from 3 available on 18-month tariffs

3 has announced that its "mobile Wi-Fi" is now available on two new 18-month plans.

Those signing up to the mobile Wi-Fi 1GB plan will see a cost £10 a month for those happy to pay £39.99 for the modem, or £12 a month for those that aren't.

The 5GB...

VIDEO: London gets WorkSnug iPhone app

A company called WorkSnug has announced an iPhone application that uses augmented reality to help you find quiet places where you can log on to a Wi-Fi signal and work in London.

The app overlays locations onto the world around you using the iPhone 3GS's internal...

Starbucks offers free Wi-Fi for card holders

Starbucks has announced that every registered Starbucks Card holder will get free BT Openzone Wi-Fi at Wi-Fi-enabled coffee houses.

There are more than 650 BT Openzone Wi-Fi enabled Starbucks coffee houses throughout the UK and Ireland.

The...

Carphone Warehouse details MiFi products

Carphone Warehouse has detailed the mobile Wi-Fi, or MiFi range it is now offering.

Creating portable Wi-Fi hotspots, the devices can connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices to the Internet at any place, any time and without any need for dongles or other software...

Xbox 360 getting 802.11n Wi-Fi adaptor

The Xbox 360 will shortly be getting an upgrade to its plug-in Wi-Fi adaptor, if an FCC filing is to be believed. The £60 module is being pumped up to 802.11n-standard wireless networking capability.

What that means is more range, more power, and more antennas...

802.11n approved, loses the "draft" tag

You've probably been using the technology for months if not years, but 802.11n, the wireless standard, has finally been approved by the body that approves these things 7 years after its first conception.

More than 2 years after the first 802.11n draft routers...

Apple knocks $100 off the price of Apple TV

In the States, Apple's "Apple TV" home cinema product has seen a dramatic price cut.

Apple has discontinued the 40GB model from the line-up, leaving only the 160GB option, but cut the price by $100 down to $229.

Apple TV, once famously described...

iPod touch tear-down reveals space for camera

iFixit has revealed the results of its tear-down of the new iPod touch, and for those in a speculative state of mind, they make interesting reading.

Perhaps supporting the rumour that the iPod touch's camera was dropped at the last minute due to technical faults,...

Freerunner free Wi-Fi fund opens for applications

Freerunner, the free public Wi-Fi network launched in the UK in May, has announced a fund to invest in free Wi-Fi hotpots to serve local communities in "deprived or remote areas".

The fund is enough for Freerunner to set-up 50 free-to-use hotspots in local...

Vodafone "Mobile Broadband Hotspot" announced

Vodafone has announced the launch of the Vodafone "Mobile Broadband Hotspot", which will let users share their laptop's mobile broadband connection with up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices.

Vodafone says the credit-card sized device "enables customers to connect...

Logitech's got a Squeezebox, daddy never sleeps at night

Logitech is looking to simplify internet radio with the introduction of the Sqeezebox family of products for your ears. The choice is between the smaller Squeezebox Radio and the Squeezebox Touch Wi-Fi music players as to how you want to do things.

The radio...

3 MiFi mobile Wi-Fi service priced and dated

3, has confirmed the pricing and availability of its new Mobile Wi-Fi service it announced at the beginning of August as it hopes to entice users away from home broadband.

The new Mobile Wi-Fi, the service allows you to create your own mobile Wi-Fi connection...

BT now operating 500,000 public Wi-Fi hotspots

BT has announced that it's half-way towards its target of putting together a network of 1,000,000 public Wi-Fi hotspots in 2009. 500,000 hotspots are now available at homes, offices and city centres in the UK and Ireland.

That total includes hotspots from the...