Best WiFi Hotels 2007
It is time for one of our most popular features, HotelChatter’s annual look at hotel brands with the Best and Worst WiFi experiences.
This year, we are going to boldly say that hotel WiFi landscape has reached an impasse. When we first started doing this report, hotels made our best list for offering up free wireless [...]
Culver City, CA Adds Pornography and Copyright Filtering Technology to Public Wireless Network
CULVER CITY, CA – According to a press release from California-based technology company Audible Magic Corp (AMC), the “first Los Angeles-area municipality to offer the public a free all-access wireless Internet system” is now filtering that access to strain out “illegal and problematic content” on their network.
According to the AMC release, Culver City decided to [...]
Municipal WiFi is the new hope for Net Neutrality – thinker
Municipal WiFi networks could help beat US carriers and politicians in the battle over so-called “net neutrality,” according to one leading campaigner
Stanford University law professor Larry Lessig has argued the WiFi clouds popping up across cites from Philadelphia to San Francisco could provide broadband access over the “last mile” between the internet cloud and users’ [...]
Are You Liable If Someone Does Something Illegal On Your WiFi?
For years, whenever the press has written one of their fear-mongering stories about open WiFi, they almost always include some tidbit about how if someone uses your network to do something illegal, you can be arrested for it. It’s one of the popular open WiFi horror stories — but is it true?
Well, of course, [...]
