Microsoft's latest firmware update for its Surface Pro and Surface RT tablets have been released, which offer some WiFi improvements for the Pro version and speaker upgrades for the RT tablet. More...

German regulators have fined Google €145,000 ($189,230) over the company's previous practice of collecting data via the WiFi antennas for Google's Street View cars. More...

Today's planned software update for the Surface RT tablet from Microsoft will concentrate on fixing more WiFi related issues that have popped up with the Windows RT-based tablet. More...

Are you struggling to get a signal far away from your wireless router? Let Neowin help you out with this free Amped Wireless repeater! Read about the details on how to enter! More...

Some owners of the Surface Pro tablet from Microsoft are reporting they are still experiencing issues with its WiFi connectivity, despite an update earlier in March designed to fix the issue. More...

Microsoft has released a software update for the Windows RT version of the Surface tablet, which fixes some issues related to the WiFi connectivity and reliability features. More...

Eyetease Media announced today that it will launch CabWifi in 2013. The project will add free WiFi access to all of London's well known black cabs, in exchange for seeing a short ad every 15 minutes. More...

Windows Phone 8 users are in for a nice surprise. Microsoft is incorporating Devicescape software directly into its phones giving users access to millions of free Wi-Fi hotspots. More...

Microsoft and Google are currently in discussions with UK government and regulatory officials for the use of white space to create a free national WiFi service that could be used on mobile devices. More...

Microsoft has launched a Windows 8 promotion that offers residents in New York City and San Francisco free access to WiFi hotspots from provider Boingo from now until the end of 2012. More...

Google will offer Kansas City residents WiFi hotspots to connect to in 400 locations in Kansas City as part of the company's recently announced Google Fiber service. More...

NetGear has announced WiFi Booster for Mobile, a product that connects to a electrical socket and proceeds to boost the signal of an existing WiFi home network. It's due out in August for $39.99. More...

A new report claims Microsoft's upcoming Surface tablet will only include Wi-Fi variants at launch, eschewing a cellular option for the time being. More...

A new survey, sponsored by Broadcom, claims that three people out of 10 who responded say they cannot go without WiFi access for their devices for more than an hour. More...

Buffalo Technology has announced that its AirStation WZR-D1800H WiFi router and the WLI-H4-D1300 wireless media bridge, the first to support the new 802.11ac protocol, are now on sale for $179.99 each More...

After complaints from other countries that the new iPad could not connect at 4G LTE speeds, Apple has apparently rebranded the iPad on its store as Wi-Fi + Cellular. More...

French researchers have claimed that they have come up with an affordable wallpaper called Metapaper that blocks WiFi signals while allowing for cell phone signals to go through. More...

After disputes with Australia's competition watchdog, Apple and the ACCC have not reached an agreement over the iPad WiFi + 4G model, despite it being incompatible with Australian 4G networks. More...

The Federal Communications Commission has recommended that Google be fined just $25,000 for allegedly blocking the FCC's investigation of Google's WiFi data storing policies. More...

A hotel chain has now said it has stopped two of its hotels from putting in hidden ad code in its free WiFi services, claiming it did not know about the practice. More...

At least one hotel in New York City uses its free WiFi connection to place some hidden code inside the web sites that are visited by its guests who use the wireless network. More...

A newly leaked internal document from Apple seems to confirm that the company is looking into issue with the WiFi hardware on some models of the new third generation iPad. More...

A new study from Strategy Analytics claims that 25 percent of all household worldwide have some kind of WiFi connection, with South Korea leading the world with a whopping 80.3 percent. More...

A new marketing campaign has launched at the South by Southwest festival where homeless people in Austin, Texas are being turned into living WiFi hotspots. The men are paid donations for WiFi access. More...

Next week, Microsoft and Skype are offering residents of Spain free amounts of WiFi at over 24,000 hotspots next week as a part of Microsoft's World Mobile Congress marketing promotions. More...

A report from the Wireless Broadband Alliance says that the first trials have been successfully made for the next generation of WiFi hotspots that should make signing onto WiFi signals easier. More...

Wi-Fi is used by countless people worldwide, and is an integral part to a wireless lifestyle. In this Trivia Tuesday I look at the history of Wi-Fi as well as interesting Wi-Fi facts and tidbits More...

HTC admits it knew for months about an issue with some of its Android-based smartphones that caused its WiFi to leak out SSID and password details to other devices. It is finally fixing the flaw. More...

The Wi-Fi Alliance, the organization in charge of certifying Wi-Fi standards, wants to stop the use of the term "Super Wi-Fi" when used to describe the new white spaces wireless data technology. More...

New Hanover County in North Carolina has now become the first location in the US to launch a white spaces wireless data network that's designed to offer WiFi-like speeds over long distances. More...

Apple is expected to implement IEEE 802.11ac, the upcoming WiFi standard that can achieve data throughput three times faster than 802.11n, in AirPort base stations and other hardware this year. More...

Verizon Wireless is preparing to offer people who attend the Super Bowl in Indianapolis better ways to communicate via their smartphones and other wireless devices. More...

With Windows 8, Microsoft has made the wireless and mobile Internet experience just as good, if not better, than all of today's smartphones. Today's Building Windows 8 post has the juicy details. More...

Recently news broke about a flaw with WPS. A Neowin forum member took it up to explain what exactly the flaw is and how to protect your assets against this exploit. More...

A new warning from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team claims to have found an exploit in the WiFi Protected Setup that could cause cyber attacker to figure out WiFi passwords. More...

The FCC approved the first white spaces database and device this week and Microsoft thinks the white space market will be as big, if not bigger, than the current WiFi market. More...

A new study claims that men who use WiFi-enabled laptops near their reproductive organs could be risking the loss of their sperm due to the electromagnetic radiation generated by the WiFi signal. More...

A new report from wireless phone executive John Stanton claims that the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs discussed launching a wireless network that would have used WiFi's unlicensed spectrum. More...

It almost feels like Google is being cocky. The search giant today announced a method to opt-out of their location based service that uses your WiFi access point as an alternative to GPS. It's a joke. More...

A new study suggests that public WiFi hot spots will continue to grow worldwide by four times their current amount in four years, totaling 5.8 million by the year 2015. More...

Whenever you find yourself on a computer with internet access, yet there's no WiFi around, simply create a new WiFi hotspot using Connectify and share your internet connection with anything More...

Mobile users in Central London will be able to access free wi-fi hotspots provided for free by Nokia, in an initiative to improve city-wide coverage until at least the end of this year. More...

The in-flight WiFi Internet company Gogo announced this week that its new ATG-4, which will have downloads speeds up to four times their current rate, will launch in the first half of 2012. More...

A number of people who believe they suffer health issues due to WiFi and mobile phone signals have decided to move to the US Radio Quiet Zone of Green Bank, West Virginia. More...

In a victory for online privacy advocates, Google has announced it plans to let WiFi users opt out of being recognized by the company's location based services. More...

Toshiba recently announced plans to release FlashAir, a new 8 GB SD card that is the first to offer two way WiFi connections. It will be released in the first quarter of 2012. More...

The UK's national cable network confirms plans to deliver free Wi-Fi access across London - to customers and non-customers alike. More...

A Kickstarter project that aims to give you control over the outlets and light switches in your house. More...