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Surf The World For Free WiFi Radar & WiFi Tools

Surf The World For Free WiFi Radar & WiFi Hack Tools ( Snip The WiFi Sopt , Brake Its Security , And Surf The Universe ) Surf The InterNet Freely Charged.
download - comments - 29.3.2007

Surf The World For Free WiFi Radar & WiFi Tools

Surf The World For Free WiFi Radar & WiFi Hack Tools ( Snip The WiFi Sopt , Brake Its Security , And Surf The Universe ) Surf The InterNet Freely Charged.
download - comments - 29.3.2007

Microsoft: Some Free Vista (+SP1) to Go Along with the Free XP SP2 Downloads?

Free downloads of Microsoft's operating systems have been made available throughout 2007, and the Redmond company is ready to take it one step further.
windows - comments - 5.2.2008

ZoneAlarm Free 5.5

If you have DSL or a cable modem, your IP address is permanent. Although this has benefits, it also carries the serious shortcoming of rendering your PC vulnerable to attacks. A firewall, in this respect, becomes not just desirable but a necessity.
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WoW for Free!

Are you tired of paying $14.99 a month for a game you already bought? If so check out this great site for a list of the best FREE World of Warcraft servers and their current statuses.
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BurnAware Free 2.1

BurnAware is the ultimate disc burning software. BurnAware Free is ideal for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, video discs and burning disc images.
download - comments - 25.8.2008

BurnAware Free 2.1.1

The BurnAware Free application was designed for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, video discs and burning disc images.
download - comments - 3.9.2008

Get a Mac Mini for free!

With the popularity of Mac Mini's, people are snatching them up quickly before they are all gone. We've done this offer for a free one and so should you! The quickest way to get your free Mac Mini it to sign up to the Rhapsody service through the link below (it will only cost you 99 cents) and follow the directions.
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a-squared Free 3.1.0.20

Security must not be a privilege. Under this motto, Emsi Software provides the Malware scanner a-squared Free completely free of charge for private use.
download - comments - 11.1.2008

Free AVG 8.0 Download

Yesterday, Grisoft announced that a new version of AVG Antivirus Free would be released today, April 24, that was supposed to come with several new functions beside the ones already included in the application
download - comments - 24.4.2008

Free Nero 9 Available for Download

One year after the release of Nero 8, Nero has made available for download the next iteration of the integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite.
download - comments - 29.9.2008

Free file hosting service

Host your files with the fastest growing web-hosting service in the world at slashdot.co.za! No need to register for hosting your files. Our services are fast, easy, reliable and completely free.
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Microsoft makes OneCare free for some

Microsoft is preparing to roll out its Windows Live OneCare security product, it is offering some people the $49.95-a-year service for free
microsoft - comments - 26.4.2006

Free mp3's brought to you by: Zune

Artist Direct is offering 35 mp3 files (yeah I counted) to promote Zune usage.
microsoft - comments - 21.1.2007

Microsoft takes on the free world

Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports.
microsoft - comments - 14.5.2007

Any Video Converter Free 2.07

Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format!
download - comments - 1.8.2007

Free Create-Burn ISO 2.0

Free Create-Burn ISO is a professional data CD / DVD burning tool. With this software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW discs directly, or you can quickly create ISO image file from your computer, and burn ISO image file to your CD / DVD disc.
download - comments - 3.8.2007

ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.91.2

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge.
download - comments - 23.8.2007

AVG Free Edition 7.5.487a1130

AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product! Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high-level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers.
download - comments - 13.9.2007

China gets free music from Google

According to Reuters, Internet-users in China will be able to download for free approximately 350,000 licensed songs--soon to be more than a million--through Google.
common - comments - 30.3.2009

Free Windows 7 Demo Toolkit

While laboring to produce the first Release Candidate of the next iteration of Windows, Microsoft is making available for download the Windows Demo Toolkit, an offering with Windows 7 as its nucleolus.
windows - comments - 1.4.2009

Download Nero 9 Essentials for Free

Just found this on AskVG that the latest version of Nero – the famous CD/DVD burning utility on Windows can now be legally downloaded for free!
download - comments - 3.8.2009

Free Windows 7 Downloads Discontinued

The free Windows 7 ride is now truly and indisputably over! And, if you have failed to get on board this far, chances that you’ll be able to do so moving onward are very slim. On August 20th, 2009 Microsoft discontinued the free downloads of Windows 7 Release Candidate Build 7100.
windows - comments - 21.8.2009

Best Free Partition Manager for Windows 7

The built-in Disk Management tool in Windows 7 hasn’t changed much from the Vista days and is still missing some of the most important and basic features such as Disk Management in Windows 7the ability to re-partition an existing primary system partition without having to reinstall Windows.
download - comments - 13.9.2009

Windows 7 Ultimate Free Giveaway

I am giving away my fully licensed Windows 7 Ultimate NFR copy which I got today from Windows 7 launch event for free with absolutely no strings attached!
windows - comments - 23.10.2009

Free Windows 7 copies for testers on the way

Testers who decided they wanted a physical version, instead of one for download, of their free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate will see it arrive in the next month or so.
windows - comments - 28.10.2009

Best Free Antivirus and Antispyware for Windows 7

Now that Windows 7 has been released for all the consumers worldwide, I thought this was the right time to list down our top recommended antivirus plus antispyware solutions which are compatible with this latest version of Windows.
download - comments - 1.11.2009

Pop-Up Stopper Free v3.1.1012

Very few of us have a warm place in our hearts for browser windows that pop up in front of the screen without permission. The free Pop-Up Stopper prevents them (and pop-under windows) from displaying. You can have sounds notify you when a pop-up has been blocked.
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Free Opera Hits 1 Million Downloads

Just 48 hours after Opera Software removed the ads and license fee from its popular Web browser, Opera 8.5 has been downloaded by over 1 million people, the company said Thursday. The number is double Opera's previous download record, which it achieved in April with version 8.0.
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A free $300 just for beta testing for Microsoft

Dear Beta tester:

At Microsoft?, we are committed to building software that helps our customers realize their potential. This commitment requires getting important feedback from our customers. We appreciate the input you gave us on Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 and would like to invite you to be part of a select group to test our next version of our software and give us your feedback. Qualified testers will receive a $300 gratuity and complimentary Microsoft software.
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WiFi access coming to BART trains

WiFi Rail has posted a press release, detailing the construction of a WiFi network that can be used by commuters on San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) trains. Although the network will not be fully complete until 2010, WiFi Rail states that "four downtown San Francisco stations and some segments of the tunnels are already fully functional, and have been providing premium service free to subscribers for the past year". The release indicates that "speeds in excess of 15Mbps on trains moving 81 miles-per-hour". WiFi Rail doesn't say whether or not they will expand their services to other trains, but it's a strong possibility, and maybe even being expanded to other means of transportation.

Read full story.....
neowin.net - 01.02.2009

Google Maps add radar-driven weather conditions

Want to know what the weather is like right now somewhere else? Today, you can just click around on a radar-enabled Google map to quickly get the lowdown on temperature, humidity, wind conditions, and a lot more...
betanews.com - 11.01.2008

Michigan man arrested for using cafe's free WiFi from car

Sam Peterson was arrested under a Michigan law barring access to anyone else's network without authorization; he is being prosecuted for using a cafe's free WiFi from his car. The cafe's WiFi network was reserved for customers - Peterson never came into the Union Street Café - and instead used its free WiFi from the comfort of his car, every single day. A police officer grew suspicious of Peterson and eventually questioned him as to what he was up to. " I knew that the Union Street had WiFi. I just went down and checked my e-mail and didn't see a problem with that ," Peterson told a reporter.

Under Michigan's "Fraudulent access to computers, computer systems, and computer networks" law, Peterson's actions could result in a five-year felony and a $10,000 fine. However, prosecutors do not plan to throw the book at him, as they don't believe that Peterson was aware he was even breaking the law. Instead, he will pay a $400 fine and do 40 hours of community service, and the arrest will not go on his record. Coincidentally, the cafe owner that Peterson was leeching WiFi off of didn't even realize that what Peterson was doing was a crime at the time. Neither did the police officer. " I had a feeling a law was being broken, but I didn't know exactly what ," said Sparta police chief Andrew Milanowski.


neowin.net - 22.05.2007

New WiFi distance record: 382 kilometers

Researcher Ermanno Pietrosemoli has set what appears to be a new record for the longest communication link with WiFi.

Pietrosemoli, president of the Escuela Latinoamerica de Redes (which means networking school of Latin America) established a WiFi link between two computers located in El Aguila and Platillon Mountain, Venezuela. That's a distance of 382 kilometers, or 238 miles. He used technology from Intel, which is concocting its own long-range WiFi equipment, and some off-the-shelf parts. Pietrosemoli gets about 3 megabits per second in each direction on his long range connections.

Most WiFi signals only go a few meters before petering out. Conventional WiFi transmitters, however, transmit signals in all directions. By directing the signal to a specific point, range can be increased. ..
winbeta.org - 18.06.2007

Another Muni-WiFi Deal Ends as AT&T, St. Louis Part Ways

AT&T has called off its ambitious plans to roll out free municipal WiFi service over a 62-square-mile area covering St. Louis County. While the company had been wrestling with the problem of how to build a business model around this lucrative service, what may have ended up scuttling the deal was an unforeseen technical difficulty...
betanews.com - 29.10.2007

Microsoft releases MSN Sideguide to fund free wifi

Recently Microsoft silently launched MSN Sideguide, a new sidebar that "enhances your browsing experience with useful and relevant information as you surf". The sidebar can be docked at either side of the screen (multi-monitor users are out of luck - it is always on primary screen - at least for now) and displays content of the MSN channels, the latest headlines from MSN/MSNBC, and enables easy access to Live Search.



Codenamed Shadow, the main purpose of MSN Sideguide is to fund the free wifi networks that Microsoft is currently testing in Oakland and Portland with its ISP partner, MetroFi - the wifi connection will be dropped if Sideguide is not running. MSN Sideguide is an "always on top sidebar" taking away space of your desktop but it offers the option that it only does so when browsing. If you enable this option Word, etc will still use the full desktop. In this mode MSN Sideguide recognizes IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari as browsing apps and shows up - Netscape will still use the full desktop space.



Microsoft only recently announced its partnership with Jiwire to monetize free wifi, and Shadow seems to be another step on this journey.




winbeta.org - 20.09.2007

The ethics of "stealing" a WiFi connection

Network security firm Sophos recently published a study on what it terms WiFi "piggybacking," or logging on to someone's open 802.11b/g/n network without their knowledge or permission. According to the company's study, which was carried out on behalf of The Times , 54 percent of the respondents have gone WiFi freeloading, or as Sophos put it, "admitted breaking the law ."



Amazingly, accessing an unsecured, wide-open WiFi network without permission is illegal in some places, and not just in the UK. An Illinois man was arrested and fined $250 in 2006 for using an open network without permission, while a Michigan man who parked his car in front of a café and snarfed its free WiFi was charged this past May with "Fraudulent access to computers, computer systems, and computer networks." On top of that, it's common to read stories about WiFi "stealing" in the mainstream media.



It's time to put an end to this silliness. Using an open WiFi network is no more "stealing" than is listening to the radio or watching TV using the old rabbit ears...




winbeta.org - 04.01.2008

Steve Jobs keen on a world where people share WiFi

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is reportedly "very interested" in a world where people share their WiFi connections in return for free access to other wireless hotspots in their communities, and recently met with the founder of upstart provider FON, whose business aims might just dovetail with the iPhone maker.



Jobs had previously read about FON, the latest venture of Argentinean new media entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, which launched in November 2005 under mantra "WiFi for everyone." It sells routers that have been designed to enable subscribers to share their home WiFi access in a more secure manner by splitting a traditional WiFi signal into two separate channels -- one for broadband internet access and another to share with fellow subscribers.




winbeta.org - 30.10.2007

WiFi is no longer a viable secure connection

WiFi is no longer secure enough to protect wireless data.

Global Secure Systems has said that a Russian's firm's use of the latest NVidia graphics cards to accelerate WiFi ‘password recovery' times by up to an astonishing 10,000 per cent proves that WiFi's WPA and WPA2 encryption systems are no longer enough to protect wireless data.

David Hobson, managing director of GSS, claimed that companies can no longer view standards-based WiFi transmission as sufficiently secure against eavesdropping to be used with impunity. He also said that the use of VPNs is arguably now mandatory for companies wanting to comply with the Data Protection Act.

He said: “This breakthrough in brute force decryption of WiFi signals by Elcomsoft confirms our observations that firms can no longer rely on standards-based security to protect their data. As a result, we now advise clients using WiFi in their offices to move on up to a VPN encryption system as well.

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neowin.net - 10.10.2008

Windows 7 adds native Virtual WiFi technology from Microsoft Research

WiFi is an incredible technology that has transformed how and where people used computers, however besides advancements in speed, range and security, very little has changed how we use wireless networks. Since 2002, Microsoft Research has been exploring a fascinating idea to virtualize the WiFi adapter, turning a single piece of hardware and radio into virtually (pun) unlimited adapters. Years after the project was seemingly abandoned, it is now uncovered Virtual WiFi technology has been baked in the Windows 7 networking foundations...




winbeta.org - 16.05.2009

Philadelphia's citywide WiFi close to shutting down

It'd be absolutely spectacular to actually see one of these admittedly ambitious municipal WiFi projects actually work out every now and then, but instead, we're seeing the nails start to sink into yet another citywide WiFi coffin.

This go 'round, the network blanketing most of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is on the verge of sending out its last signals unless the city can devise a plan in short order to take it over from EarthLink, who unsurprisingly wants out on the double. Unfortunately, we don't have a great feeling about the system's future -- history has a way of forecasting, you know?


neowin.net - 12.05.2008

Blackberry Storm 2 With WiFi in September?

According to a trustworthy source of SlashGear's, Verizon has given the go-ahead for RIM to release the 2nd rendition of the infamous Blackberry Storm. This time, with WiFi!

Addressing peoples' criticisms of the first generation Storms, Verizon aims to give the iPhone another go, making the Storm an even better pro-concumer device. The onyl specific update to the device is the WiFi feature. However, SlashGear and their un-named source believe that Verizon has a few more tricks up their sleeve, perhaps centered around improving the touch screen even more?

After being really the only worthwhile competitor to the iPhone, Verizon's ago was boosted with the incredible success of the first Storm. I'm sure we can rest easy, knowing that they won't dissapoint with the second version...
jcxp.net - 07.04.2009

Qualcomm's WiFi Joins with Airgo to Battle Intel's WiMAX

Qualcomm is acquiring leading WiFi engineering firm Airgo Networks, and will be marketing Airgo's upcoming "802.11n Draft 2.0-compliant" chipset. Airgo was striking out on its own; now it has a huge backer behind it, in what promises to be a fierce battle with Intel for the mobile wireless broadband platform turf...
betanews.com - 05.12.2006

More than 100 times faster than WiFi?

Radio scientists at IBM Research and MediaTek are teaming up to develop a wireless transmission protocol that will deliver files more than 100 times faster than WiFi.



The idea is to take advantage of the 60GHz spectrum, according to Mehmet Soyuer, the lead researcher on the project, whose based in IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. These chips will be able to transfer files at around 2.5 gigabits per second, compared to the 11 to 54 megabits of WiFi. Hence the 100x faster calculation, Soyuer said.



Put another way, these chips could transfer at 10 gigabyte file wirelessly in five seconds or so, something that would take several minutes on a WiFi network.





winbeta.org - 22.10.2007

T-Mobile Rolls Out UMA Phone Nationwide, Blending WiFi with EDGE

After an apparently successful initial test run in parts of Washington State, T-Mobile USA today is ready to roll out its first hybrid WiFi/EDGE phone service: its UMA-based Hot Spot @ Home. The idea is to enable customers to drop their land lines altogether, without picking up someone else's bundled service that would usurp those savings...
betanews.com - 27.06.2007

Intel Answers Back: Centrino Duo to Incorporate WiFi, WiMAX

Responding to last weekend's challenge from Qualcomm, which is seeking to up the ante in high-speed wireless networking with its acquisition of True MIMO producer Airgo Networks, Intel today announced that for its Centrino Duo platform, it's preparing a system-on-a-chip (SoC) that will incorporate the WiMAX technology it champions (802.16e) along with 802.11n WiFi and HSDPA...
betanews.com - 07.12.2006

What comes after the information age

Most people reading this blog occupy some place in the "information economy," and many worry whether they can maintain that place during a period of dizzying change. I've been dealing with information-economy stress by looking at the differences between the professional books I'm used to editing and the wide range of free documentation one finds online; we're coming up on the fourth anniversary of my first article on the topic.



Two distinct types of learning have emerged from my observations of how people use documentation. If you already know a utility or language and simply want to add a function, you can usually find the essential information online. A short example with some explanation of context usually suffices.



On the other hand, if you want to learn a new tool or language from scratch, you need a more comprehensive guide that's probably more professionally written. You can no longer tuck a new feature into your existing ways of thinking; you need to make a paradigm shift.




winbeta.org - 05.09.2007

Track Santa's Path With Technology

Vonage Web phone users can call for progress; NORAD activates its Santa radar...
pcworld.com - 24.12.2005

Data Center Power Efficiency

Jesse Robbins: James Hamilton is one of the smartest and most accomplished engineers I know. He now leads Microsoft's Data Center Futures Team, and has been pushing the opportunities in data center efficiency and internet scale services both inside & outside Microsoft. His most recent post explores misconceptions about the Cost of Power in Large-Scale Data Centers...




winbeta.org - 30.11.2008

London takes international WiFi crown

More people use WiFi hotspots at non-business locations in London than any other city in the world, according to research released today. The capital notched up over 11,000 access sessions at locations including cafes and bookshops during a six month period, double the rate of the second most popular city, Singapore, says WiFi provider iPass.

Its WiFi hotspot index, which tracks usage data from hotspots within iPass' virtual global network, says throughout the UK access sessions have increased 75 per cent between July and December 2006 and London venues are the most popular with Heathrow airport taking the top spot and Gatwick airport second.


neowin.net - 06.03.2007