Was EarthLink’s failed citywide Wi-Fi a blessing in disguise, asks C/Net’s Marguerite Reardon. “The new network owners are supposed to have a much more sustainable business model,” said Karen Perry, director of the Connected Communities team for the Knight Center of Digital Excellence.

Dell’s new netbook, the Inspiron Mini 9 ($399), will be sold with built-in mobile broadband by Vodafone for HSPA access in the UK, the companies announced on Thursday. For now its “in key European markets”. Vodafone is a part owner in Verizon. No announcement of a partnership with U.S.

Is your scooter just not geeky enough for you? How about turning that bad boy into a mobile hotspot? This how-to shows building instructions for putting together a scooter that doubles as a roving wireless hotspot, GPS device, pirate radio station, and even has enough juice to amplify an electric guitar in order to play songs over the web.

Children have their heads in the cloud because that is where what they are tasked to learn by education is now. In the image above, Dell illustrates its new Inspiron Mini 9 with a child viewing a pagoda. That pagoda is not on the hard drive of the device displaying it. The pagoda is in the internet content cloud.

If there’s one municipal wireless application I am going to push, it’s wireless digital parking meters. I have been stuck so many times without enough coins to feed into those ancient meters that I think this is the one thing all cities need to implement now. It’s time to stop using Roman technology (i.e.

Build Your Own Wi-Fi Hotspot Scooter For Great Safety Posted by Jason Chen at 10:34 AM on September 5, 2008 Not that there's anything inherently wrong with riding a scooter, but only one of us at Gizmodo proudly admits to owning one.

Build Your Own Wi-Fi Hotspot Scooter For Great Safety Not that there's anything inherently wrong with riding a scooter, but only one of us at Gizmodo proudly admits to owning one. Maybe if Jenny Silverwoman had one of these roving Wi-Fi hotspots capable of "long distance war driving, GPS navigation,

EU/AU: VC Friday (September 05, 2008) Posted in Virtual Console, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, Games, Wii by Andrew Macarthy on September 5th, 2008 at 0:47 It’s a bumper Virtual Console week in Europe and Australia this Friday with - count ‘em - four new-old releases hitting the download service for your delectation.

Sony today unveiled the wireless VAIO® CP1 Wi-Fi photo frame, making it easier than ever to share digital images as well as receive news and stream Internet radio in real-time. Utilizing built-in Wi-Fi technology, the CP1 model lets you stream photos from a VAIO PC directly to the device.

The company's Optimum customers will be able to access the Internet using the wi-fi network in parts of Nassau and Suffolk, including commuter rail platforms and station parking lots, beginning this Thursday. The service won't be available to non-Optimum customers-...