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Finding Affiliate Profits Online with
Site Build It, Part Two

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Free WiFi Hotspot Roundup, If One Site
Can Be a Roundup

Free WiFi Hotspot Roundup, If One Site
Can Be a Roundup 04/13/2004 07:23 AM
JOEL JOHNSON -- So as is typical, after a full day of responses to my request for some of your favorite chain restaurants that provide free WiFi, I get one big, fat link that trumps them all, and includes all of your Schlotzsky's, Apple Stores, It's a Grinds, and New...

Configuring Site Systems and Site to
Site Communications with Advanced
Security

Configuring Site Systems and Site to
Site Communications with Advanced
Security 08/16/2004 10:22 AM

How to Become a Hotspot Guide

How to Become a Hotspot Guide 04/23/2004 08:23 PM
Looking to become a hotspot? Jiwire has published an in-depth guide: There's no question we get more frequently at Wi-Fi Networking News than from individual venues or small chains of locations that want to install Wi-Fi service but don't know quite how to start or how to evaluate offerings. This Jiwire piece offers very specific advice and direction on making primary decisions--free or fee? on your own or in a network? turnkey or solutions provider?--and then who to turn to....

New UK Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder

New UK Wi-Fi Hotspot Finder 01/09/2004 09:52 PM
Firstly, i would like to say "Happy New Year".

Anyway, this posting is because i have made a new UK Hotspot finder site that finds the nearest Wi-Fi Hotspots (Commercial and Free) to your postcode.

At the moment, Wi-Fish.com (the name of the site) is UK-Only because of the search algorhythm...

SBC is Hotspot Hero?

SBC is Hotspot Hero? 07/26/2004 12:37 PM
They're late to the game, but they're ready to party: It's a funny thing. When SBC Communications first announced their FreedomLink plans last year with plans build 6,000 hotspots over a couple of years, it seemed like yet another announcement of large numbers with no track record. Cometa was still on its 20,000 hotspots prediction and had only a handful. McDonald's hadn't decided its partner and was in limited trials. Wayport seemed stuck on hotels. And T-Mobile stayed focused--as it still does--on a few ubiquitous chains. In the space of a few months, SBC has moved from last man in, to practically first mover. Let's review: The UPS Store. They will install Wi-Fi in thousands of UPS Store outlets, which are places that business people already congregate. This will probably also necessitate a change of thinking for that mailing and business operation so that they can make it easier for people to work for periods of time in their stores. Wayport managed services. They hired Wayport to build out their FreedomLink locations instead of creating a new division with no experience in house. Wayport's Wi-Fi World and McDonald's. They're the first telco to sign up to resell Wayport's McDonald's network, which will ultimately be several thousand stores over the next couple of years. Wayport/McDonald's supplier. They're also providing DSL and other connectivity to many of the McDonald's that Wayport is disconnected, which is part revenue, part branding for them as part of the Wi-Fi World co-marketing model Wayport is pursuing. Airports, airports, airports. They have roaming agreements now for their FreedomLink users onto Concourse, Wise, Wayport, and (reportedly) Sprint PCS's airport locations. There are only a handful of major airports not represented by those networks: SFO and Boston Logan are the two that come to mind. Pushing Wi-Fi into homes. SBC is selling 3,000 Wi-Fi routers a day to their home DSL users. This will drive adoption by their users of Wi-Fi. People without Wi-Fi will buy adapters or new systems because of the ease of sharing. Pushing hotspots subscriptions to their DSL subscribers. It's a coming, and it's going to be good--SBC keeps saying in its press releases that they will offer FreedomLink at a substantial discount to their DSL subscribers. $10 per month for unlimited use? $8? $15? Who knows. But it's an audience they've already got and they can offer them nationwide service with several thousand locations...

A Hotspot on Every Corner

A Hotspot on Every Corner 07/29/2004 08:25 PM
Details are sketchy, but New York City may allow six telecom firms to pay up to $25 million per year to install wireless transmitters on 18,000 lamp posts: The article is full of sturm und drang about health effects, but the real story is that the city is trying to counter its dead zones without tearing up the streets. It's unclear precisely what kind of transmitters these will be, but you can bet your boppy that the goal will be wireless backhaul for the majority of the points using mesh or simple point-to-point. This endeavor could bring massively improved voice, 2.5G/3G cell data, and Wi-Fi into a city without ripping up all the roads once again or putting giant cell antennas on every last building. The companies include well-known and never-heard-of-'em: the New York Post says they are two cellular providers, Nextel and T-Mobile, three non-cellular companies, ClearLinx Network Corp., Crown Castle Solutions, and Dianet Communications. The sixth, IDT Business Services, will provide telephone service via the Internet. [link via GigaOm]...

Hotspot Camera

Hotspot Camera 01/05/2005 06:47 PM
Did Kodak just build 802.1X into a camera? Kodak will release a camera in June that can upload photos via T-Mobile hotspots. The software to enable this uploading isn't due until fall, for some reason. The new Easyshare-One sounds like a combination of Apple iPod Photo, PDA functionality (for wireless and previewing), and digital camera. It comes with a trial for using T-Mobile's service. I'm guessing that this camera's fall software release will leverage the 802.1X authentication that T-Mobile has added to its North American venues. 802.1X is both simple and hard. If Kodak preloads unique accounts, or allows people to set this up through PC or camera back software, there's very little complexity. The 802.1X supplicant in the camera can manage the connection. The camera will retail for $600 plus $100 for the optional Wi-Fi card. Terms of the free trial service and monthly pricing are yet to be determined. It's a direct shot across the bow at cellular operators who are offering poor upload speeds on their high-speed network. Given that T-Mobile has articulated a long delay in their 3G rollout plans and don't want to clog their GPRS networks, this seems like a perfect symbiosis for Kodak and T-Mobile....

Hotspot Helper

Hotspot Helper 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
MediaTracker is offering a low-cost way for venues to manage their hotspots: The management software, ControlAP, costs $149 and can support several platforms and both external APs plugged into a computer or an internal wireless card. Because the software is Java based, it can be run from a handheld with a wireless card. "It's a do-it-yourself mechanism to control hotspots," said Dario Laverde, MediaTracker's founder. "The initial target is cafes and small store fronts." The software enables a captive portal Web page where end users can sign in or see a welcome page if the hot spot is free. For now, a cafe may decide to offer 30 minutes of free use, then require customers to approach the counter where they pay the barista for additional use. A cafe could also ask customers to buy another coffee in exchange for additional use rather than set a price based on time, Laverde suggested. An employee authorizes additional use from a computer behind the counter where the ControlAP software can be integrated with existing point-of-sale software. The next version of ControlAP will support credit card billing. The software logs traffic and allows a cafe to block URLs or users by MAC address. It can be used to manage wired connections, too, so a cafe that may have some wired computers available for customers can manage those together with users of the Wi-Fi network from the same tool. Laverde says that thousands of people have downloaded the free version of the software, which is meant to serve as a trial version because it limits simultaneous users to five and offers stripped-down features. The full version of the software was just introduced this week. MediaTracker isn't alone in the market chasing independent cafes that don't want to partner with any of the larger hotspot operators, but it does offer some unique differences from its competitors. Surf and Sip, for example, offers a hosted hotspot management solution that either costs $50 per month if the hotspot is free for users, or 25 percent of profits for a paid location. Sputnik offers a robust solution for managing hotspots but is designed for the small to medium-sized hotspot operator that has multiple locations. AirPath Wireless also offers a hotspot management solution but seems to be targeting larger hot spot operators--Sprint uses AirPath's solution. NoCatAuth is also an option but appropriate mostly for technical folks....

Coming Soon to a Wireless Hotspot Near
You: Ads

Coming Soon to a Wireless Hotspot Near
You: Ads 05/03/2004 12:26 PM

Hotspot Users Survey

Hotspot Users Survey 06/24/2005 10:01 PM
A group at the University of Virginia wants some answers from hotspot users: They're compiling a study in which they're recruiting folks who regularly use hotspots to fill out a very brief questionnaire....

North Pole Gets Wi-Fi Hotspot

North Pole Gets Wi-Fi Hotspot 04/15/2005 08:43 PM

Charter, Cisco Hotspot

Charter, Cisco Hotspot 06/09/2004 05:35 PM
Unstrung.com Jun 9 2004 9:42PM GMT

Put a Hotspot Search on Your Page

Put a Hotspot Search on Your Page 11/04/2003 12:52 AM
Like what you see at left? You can have it, too: The JIWIRE hotspot locator can be added in one of two dimensions to your page by following the link....

Hotspot Problems Universal

Hotspot Problems Universal 01/19/2004 01:59 PM
A Malaysian user of the state-run operator's Wi-Fi service has trouble getting on: Then he gets no help from customer service. It seems that getting technical help when trying to connect to a hotspot is problematic anywhere you go. Ultimately, the writer finds more luck using free hotspots....

MCI's Hotspot Network

MCI's Hotspot Network 03/23/2005 12:40 PM
The attention that MCI has gotten from its expanded hotspot network is bewildering to me: I cover the industry obsessively, and so I know that MCI is just reselling locations available from Boingo and Wayport. Still, there have been piles of articles trying to articulate how MCI's hotspot plan fits into their rest of their operations. There's a strategic goal there, of course, but the articles--not the one linked to, however--often confuse the private-label reseller relationship that Boingo has with MCI (and with Earthlink, Fiberlink, and other companies without -link in their names) and Wayport with, well, everyone, with MCI building out a hotspot network a la SBC or T-Mobile. Although the IDG story linked to says that the service costs $40 per month for unlimited Wi-Fi/broadband when added to a dial-up and VPN account, it's unclear exactly how that works as MCI's Remote Broadband Access FAQ states that wireless charges are in addition to dial-up charges. Just another way in which it's hard to figure out what, precisely, something costs....

free hotspot lambeth rd se1

free hotspot lambeth rd se1 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
as said before by others, bought 11g network card, plugged it in, free access. around junction of kennington rd & lambeth rd, lambeth se1

Oregon Gets Biggest Hotspot

Oregon Gets Biggest Hotspot 02/10/2004 02:40 AM
It's always worrisome to qualify networks as the "biggest" but in this case I'd bet that eastern Oregon really does have the biggest hotspot in the country: Yesterday, Boardman and Hermiston, Ore. turned on a 600-square-mile hotspot. The network came about through a public/private initiative and was built by EZ Wireless. The network will be used by the Morrow County Emergency Management and Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program, the police force, and citizens. Initially, it will cover 600 square miles which includes four counties and seven cities, some in Washington. The second phase, which should be complete this summer, will add another seven cities. The press release isn't online and any news organizations in the area either don't post the stories online or require subscriptions from visitors wanting to read the stories online....

T-mobile WiFi Hotspot

T-mobile WiFi Hotspot 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
I arrived here at Honolulu International a little earlier than I wanted to this morning as my wife had to...

Psst, need a Hotspot locator?

Psst, need a Hotspot locator? 07/19/2004 04:40 PM

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Need to be able to locate Wi-Fi Hotspots in a hurry, perhaps JiWire’s Portable Hotspot Locator is just the tool that you need. The Portable Hotspot Locator enables you to search for and find Hotspots quickly thanks to the ability to search by State, city and even Location Type….

Second Wi-Fi Advertising Hotspot Network

Second Wi-Fi Advertising Hotspot Network 05/02/2004 03:37 PM
FreeFi will overlay advertising on Wi-Fi free hotspots; The press release claims FreeFi is the first Wi-Fi ad network, but it's only narrowly the case: DotSpot launched in March and both builds out hotspots and then sells advertising on them. The FreeFi site makes it clear that FreeFi is a software gateway overlay. The FreeFi system uses a Web-based advertising bar that apparently a user must agree to open in order to gain access. It says it doesn't rely on spyware, popups, or other annoying tools. (The FreeFi logo cleverly incorporates the open Wi-Fi hotspot warchalking symbol.)...

City to become wireless hotspot

City to become wireless hotspot 05/19/2004 06:13 AM
Anyone in the centre of Cardiff will be able to surf the web or pick up e-mails on their laptop under a new broadband scheme.

Which Hotspot Networks Still Stand?

Which Hotspot Networks Still Stand? 05/19/2004 01:26 PM
With the slow rundown of Cometa's clock starting today, which companies remain standing?: I do have a little ego, and my article in Feb. 2001 in The New York Times was the first comprehensive piece written in a major publication about the nascent Wi-Fi hotspot industry. Several companies were striving to raise funds into the mouth of the dotcom collapse, which claimed bloated business plans or too early attempts to capitalize on a technology that only a small number of laptop users had access to. While researching the story in Dec. 2000, I spoke to the chief marketing officer of the Aerzone division of Softnet. Three days after I spoke to him, Softnet pulled the plug because they couldn't raise the funds to perform the build out that they'd contracted with airlines and airports to handle. The firms I interviewed for the article were Wayport, Surf and Sip, Global Digital Media, AirWave, SkyLink (not quoted), and MobileStar. Let's start in reverse order. What's clear from examining each of these firms is that execution and timing mattered as much in 2001 as they do today: controlling costs and building out a robust network in the right place can only go so far: users who pay are still required. MobileStar: While initially well funded, MobileStar had extremely high run rates. I's technical standards were top notch, but expensive, and expenses ran far ahead of any potential revenue. They went bankrupt late in 2001 and had their assets purchased by T-Mobile HotSpot. The company reportedly went through as much as $90 million in investment income while producing no more than a couple million in revenue. T-Mobile has continued to use its brand name and high-level partnerships to run what is generally considered to be an excellent network that's overprice for day use, but not far out of scale on their unlimited monthly plans with one-year commitment. Sky.Link Internet Plus: A promising Canadian firm with hotel and airports service, the company disappeared abruptly a few months after my article came out. It resurfaced briefly with fewer locations before taking a final plunge. Its history and disappearance are a mystery. AirWave: AirWave was a small San Francisco Bay Area set of hotspots in restaurants and coffeeshops that decided that the software they'd written to manage access points was a better product than the hotspot business. In 2002, they exited hotspots, spinning off their locations to...

Frozen polar waste gets Wi-Fi hotspot

Frozen polar waste gets Wi-Fi hotspot 04/14/2005 01:42 PM
Santa and elves said to be pleased

.Mac members get T-Mobile HotSpot trial

.Mac members get T-Mobile HotSpot trial 04/07/2005 10:13 AM
Apple has added a new offer for members of its .Mac services -- a free 30–day trial of the T–Mobile HotSpot Wi–Fi service, which provides access to more than 5,400 wireless broadband locations in the U.S...

Nomadix patents Wi-Fi hotspot log-in
tech

Nomadix patents Wi-Fi hotspot log-in
tech 01/27/2004 08:59 AM
The Register Jan 27 2004 12:34PM GMT

Stupid hotspot connection processes

Stupid hotspot connection processes 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
I tried to check my email during a stopover in Frankfurt from the Luftansa lounge.  Good news -- they have a Vodaphone WiFi hotspot.  But there's one problem.  Signing up to connect to the Hotspot requires that you receive a password on your mobile phone via SMS.  My Sprint PCS phone doesn't work in Europe.  Adding insult to injury, none of the landline phones here in the lounge allow outgoing toll-free calls.  So I can't even reach the Vodaphone help line to see if there's another way to log in.

I can understand the convenience of SMS, but why should connecting your laptop to a WiFi hotspot need to involve a text message to your mobile phone?  Doing the security over the Net via SSL seems perfectly acceptable, as it is for virtually all online purchases.  It's as though a catalog retailer told me to go respond to an email in order to accept my credit card over the phone.

Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait until I get to Helsinki to connect (and to upload this post!).

Netopia Offers Hotspot Solution

Netopia Offers Hotspot Solution 06/28/2004 12:59 PM
Netopia joins a handful of other companies offering a hotspot-in-a-box solution: Netopia's hotspot solution costs $300 for customers that already have a DSL modem and an additional $40 a month for support. Users, which could be a cafe or retail location, are given cards with log on numbers that they can sell or give to end users. Netopia will also sell customers Web site design and maintenance service. Sure and Sip and AirPath are just two of a handful of other companies that offer hotspot services to venues. These services are aimed at venues that don't want to deal with supporting a network themselves. It's unclear yet if the pricing structures set up by these providers will fly in the market....

Wayport wins McDonald's hotspot gig

Wayport wins McDonald's hotspot gig 04/22/2004 06:33 AM
WLAN, burger and fries

Another Small Pa. Town Marks First
Hotspot

Another Small Pa. Town Marks First
Hotspot 02/10/2004 02:40 AM
A restaurant in Bradford, Pa. believes it's the first in the area to offer a hotspot: Customers, who include executives from Zippo and KOA, can use the network for free. The restaurant owners decided to offer the network when it ordered a high speed access line to speed up credit card payments. They hope the network will encourage more business people to visit. Earlier this week we wrote about a KFC in another small Pennsylvania town that was the first in its area to offer Wi-Fi. It appears that Wi-Fi continues to spread even to the small towns....

India Wi-Fi Hotspot Market Blooming

India Wi-Fi Hotspot Market Blooming 04/03/2005 11:52 PM
The number of hotspots in India is expected to grow tenfold with 3,000 active by December: for a country with many times the U.S. and with a vast technically trained population--and extremes of poverty as well--hotspot growth is a given. The government only recently legalized the use of 2.4 GHz and 5.1 GHz devices for this purpose. Dishnet announced a 6,000-hot spot network this week with 2,000 planned to be active by December; Microsense has 200 now with 1,000 expected by December; other networks have hundreds of locations targeted, too. Prices have plummeted as growth has expanded--but probably not fallen "100 percent" as the article indicates....

Boingo Bolsters Hotspot Security

Boingo Bolsters Hotspot Security 09/08/2004 04:08 PM

ISN WiFi Hotspot on Kent Street

ISN WiFi Hotspot on Kent Street 12/29/2003 11:54 PM
"Island Services Network has turned on an open Wifi hotspot in their third-floor offices above the old Home Hardware location on Kent Street between Queen and University, next door to Tim Hortons. You can see evidence of this if you sit near the front of Timothy's down the street -- SSID ISN1 will..." (65 words - posted by peter) 1 reply

WiFi for God: New Hotspot on Prince
Street

WiFi for God: New Hotspot on Prince
Street 12/29/2003 11:54 PM
"I'm happy to announce the reintroduction of open WiFi into my neighbourhood. Emanating from Reinvented World Headquarters here at 100 Prince St. is a WiFi beam stretching out onto Prince Street and right into St. Paul's Anglican Church. The usefulness of the WiFi for religious purposes remains to..." (370 words - posted by peter) 4 replies

Penn. Town Gets Second Wi-Fi Hotspot:
the Library

Penn. Town Gets Second Wi-Fi Hotspot:
the Library 05/12/2004 11:11 AM
Newtown, Pa., renovates library and installs Wi-Fi, doubling town's Wi-Fi hotspot count: The small town of Newtown has a Starbucks with fee Wi-Fi access as its sole reported public Wi-Fi. This library isn't public; it's supported by membership dues since 1760. The library isn't sure whether they will open the Wi-Fi access to all, or just to members....

Telus snaps up hotspot provider

Telus snaps up hotspot provider 08/03/2004 02:14 PM
Business in Vancouver Aug 3 2004 6:39PM GMT

Google Wireless Hotspot Finder

Google Wireless Hotspot Finder 12/31/2004 04:44 AM
I4U Dec 31 2004 8:40AM GMT

Boingo wins Linksys hotspot kit promo

Boingo wins Linksys hotspot kit promo 04/15/2004 06:33 AM
Venues lured with $300-400 a month profit claim

Thinking Aloud: Hotspot Machine
Translation

Thinking Aloud: Hotspot Machine
Translation 01/28/2004 02:17 AM

Reading Tim Oren's The State of Machine Translation post made me think about practical ways to use machine translation technology on the web despite all of its problems.  Since I was wrestling with Hotspot JIT compiler just before, I naturally mixed the two to get: Hotspot Machine Translation.

Hmm.  What could that mean?

Documents have hotspots.  Title is a hotspot.  Phrase “sign here“ is a hotspot.

User interfaces have hotspots.  Buttons are hotter than menus, window titles, etc.  Words that results in action are hotter than other types of words.

Web pages have hotspots.  Hyperlinks are obvious hotspots, but buttons are hotter because they are often used to commit or submit.

I see now.  Hotspot Machine Translation is realtime translation of words in hotspots.  How are hotspots different?

• Hotspots contain incomplete sentences, typically just a few words.
• Number of words and phrases used in hotspots are potentially much smaller.

What can one do with it though beyond being able to more easily navigate foreign porn sites?

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