Neowin News Feed for: Hotspot

The FCC just made your upcoming wearables, WiFi, and other gadgets better

Karthik Mudaliar — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 05:34:02 +0000

The FCC has opened up the entire 6 GHz band for very low-power (VLP) devices and here's how it will affect your next gadget. Read more...

Get 3 years of HotSpot Shield VPN Premium for just $89.99

Neowin Deals — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:00:04 +0000

The "World's Fastest VPN" that provides military-grade encryption while giving you access to sites and streaming content over 115+ locations all around the world can be yours at 80% off. Read more...

Google announces Fi 5G coverage expansion and better iPhone support

Paul Hill — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:34:01 +0000

Google has announced that 5G support on Fi is available in several more countries. It's also improving iPhone compatibility so that calls can be made over Wi-Fi, and hotspot can be enabled abroad. Read more...

Save 80% off HotSpot Shield VPN Premium: 3-Yr Subscription

Neowin Deals — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:00:01 +0000

The "World's Fastest VPN" that provides military-grade encryption while giving you access to sites and streaming content over 115+ locations all around the world Read more...

Verizon is launching a 5G hotspot next year courtesy of Inseego

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:48:01 +0000

In addition to smartphones, Verizon will also be releasing a 5G hotspot to consumers sometime in 2019. The device is being demonstrated this week at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Technology Summit. Read more...

Skype WiFi will be dead next month; it's unclear if Microsoft WiFi will survive

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:42:01 +0000

The Skype service that allowed users to rent data connections from hotspots around the world will be killed off this month. However, it's unclear if Microsoft is fully getting out of the Wi-Fi game. Read more...

Virgin America flights disrupted as 'Galaxy Note7' Wi-Fi hotspot sparks safety scare

Andy Weir — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 12:06:01 +0000

A passenger who changed the name of the Wi-Fi hotspot on their device to 'Samsung Galaxy Note7_1097' sparked a mid-air safety scare, during which the captain threatened to make an emergency landing. Read more...

European Court backs demand by copyright holders to require passwords for open Wi-Fi hotspots

Paul Hill — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 20:34:01 +0000

The European Court of Justice has set a precedent by ordering a public Wi-Fi provider to restrict access by requiring guest users to register with a password to prevent copyright infringement. Read more...

NeoBytes :) 'Mobile Detonation Device' Wi-Fi hotspot sparks security scare on Qantas flight

Andy Weir — Wed, 04 May 2016 17:20:01 +0000

40 scared passengers refused to fly on a Qantas airliner that had been temporarily grounded, after a Wi-Fi hotspot was discovered with the name 'Mobile Detonation Device', sparking a security scare. Read more...

Activists lure government and industry officials with free open Wi-Fi at security conference

Andy Weir — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:28:01 +0000

Activists from the youth wing of Sweden's Pirate Party provided free Wi-Fi at a major security conference, and viewed the web usage of top government and industry figures via the unencrypted hotspot. Read more...

Microsoft and Google fight against hotels blocking personal WiFi

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:04:01 +0000

The two tech giants are just some of the big names fighting against an initiative by hotel companies, which are lobbying the FCC to be allowed to block their guests' personal WiFi hotspots. Read more...

Hotspot Shield 2.63

Razvan Serea — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:51:37 +0000

Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop and the wireless router. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers and hackers from viewing your email, instant messages Read more...

Homeless men being used as living WiFi hotspots in Austin

John Callaham — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:09:13 +0000

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. Read more...

Need an instant WiFi hotspot? Here's how

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:58:17 +0000

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 Read more...

Sprint does away with 4G unlimited mobile broadband plans

John Callaham — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:52:54 +0000

Sprint has announced that starting in November its mobile broadband users will no longer have access to unlimited 4G data plans. Mobile hotspot plans will also no longer have 4G unlimited data. Read more...

Sprint to cap hotspot data use for smartphones

John Callaham — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:14:44 +0000

Sprint has announced that starting on October 2 it will place a 5 GB cap on data generated by mobile hotspot features on smartphones with users getting overage charges if they go over the cap. Read more...

AT&T announces Hotspot, new tethering plan similar to Verizon's

Michael Collado — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:10:38 +0000

AT&T announced today that it will be launching a mobile hotspot feature, allowing mobile phones to share Internet through Wi-Fi with multiple devices, and changed its current tethering plans, making them more competitive with Verizon's. The... Read more...

Sprint turns iPod Touch into a bulkier iPhone

Benjamin Rubenstein — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:19:39 +0000

Apple's iPod Touch is arguably the best MP3 and media player on the market. However, what it does lack are the features of it's older brother, the iPhone. Sprint's ZTE PEEL aims to close that... Read more...

AT&T powering up free WiFi hotspot in Times Square

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:25:32 +0000

AT&T will give New Yorkers fumbling around for decent 3G coverage in the crowded city a nice gift today. Engadget reports that AT&T is expected to announce their first free outdoor WiFi hotspot later today.... Read more...

Toronto Readies Massive Downtown Hotspot

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:22:57 +0000

Toronto Hydro Telecom's recently installed a six-square kilometer Wi-Fi hotspot in downtown Toronto that will deliver Internet upload and download rates at a consistent 5 Mbps. The Wi-Fi deployment called OneZone is the largest in... Read more...