Free Wi-Fi

4 days ago - Mobile officials are considering providing free, wireless Internet services in the downtown district, joining the ranks of other cities with free wi-fi for roving laptop users on Main Street.

13 days ago - Visitors to the Indianapolis International Airport's new $1 billion terminal will find plenty of Hoosier touches in the terminal when it opens for business Tuesday.

183 days ago - Free municipal wireless networks may be going the way of the dot-com boom as Foster City recently joined a slew of other municipalities left disconnected by Wi-Fi providers.

271 days ago - A competitive broadband provider is breathing new life into plans to launch a service providing public wireless Internet access across Silicon Valley and the Peninsula.

324 days ago - A small startup wants to go big with its free wireless Internet technology and blanket The City in coverage by the end of 2008.

324 days ago - A Silicon Valley startup is promising to blanket San Francisco with free wireless Internet service, reviving a crusade that crumbled last year after two much larger companies, EarthLink Inc. and Google Inc., scrapped their plans to build a high-speed network for Web surfing.

338 days ago - There are many reasons — in these days of plummeting auto sales — why luxury car maker BMW AG enjoyed a comfortable 16.6 percent increase in overall sales from last November.

451 days ago - Mayor Gavin Newsom confirmed Wednesday that the deal he championed to create a free, citywide wireless Internet system is dead — but he said he’s not giving up on the dream of providing universal Wi-Fi to San Franciscans.

459 days ago - Alexandria’s and Arlington’s wireless Internet revolution has slowed to the speed of a dial-up modem.

459 days ago - Alexandria has closed the free wireless hot spot it operated on King Street near the waterfront since April 2005. After new federal legislation took effect in May, the city attorney recommended disconnecting the service, said Craig Fifer, the city’s E-government manager. The new legislation required Internet providers to give law enforcement officers a backdoor access to monitor users, similar to wiretap procedure. To comply would have required extra equipment and cost, Fifer said. That seemed shortsighted since Earthlink is contracted to take over and expand the city’s Wi-Fi network.

460 days ago - As City Hall trades volleys with private companies and a host of critics over the future of San Francisco’s citywide wireless Internet access, a tiny startup has been quietly spreading a Wi-Fi quilt over The City free of charge.

473 days ago - International visitors are getting one more reason to come to Baltimore.

476 days ago - San Franciscans will be asked this November to vote on funneling more money into Muni, funding a one-stop shop for small business, donating dollars to reopen Golden Gate Park Stables, as well as to weigh in on the debate over a free citywide wireless Internet network. Members of the Board of Supervisors added two propositions onto the Nov. 6 ballot, and Mayor Gavin Newsom added two — all on Friday, the final day to place measures on the ballot.