Wi-Fi Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Hands on with AnyPlay: Live Comcast video on your iPad

by Erica Sadun (Feb 4th, 2012)

Haven't heard of AnyPlay? That's not surprising. It's a small initiative slowly being introduced by Comcast into select cable markets. With it, you can watch live television over your home network on your iPad. So if your spouse is hogging the HDTV during your CW night, you can watch Supernatural ...

Daily Update for January 23, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 23rd, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

Grand Central Terminal Apple Store previewed for media, opens Friday

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 7th, 2011)

Apple previewed its latest retail development for the press today. The Grand Central Terminal store in New York City, opening Friday, will be among the largest Apple stores in the world; it overlooks the Main Concourse from the East and North East balconies of Grand Central Terminal. Check ...

Hotspot Shield adds iOS connection protection with inexpensive VPN

by Michael Rose (Nov 13th, 2011)

If you're a security-conscious web surfer -- or an international traveler who likes to maintain access to US-based video streaming or voice services -- you may already be one of the millions of users of AnchorFree's Hotspot Shield, one of the leading consumer virtual private network (VPN) ...

Daily Update for October 26, 2011

by Steven Sande (Oct 26th, 2011)

Apple devices dominate airport Wi-Fi

by Steven Sande (Sep 21st, 2011)

Anyone who has spent time around an airport recently has probably noticed that Apple devices -- particularly the iPhone and iPad -- seem to be everywhere. Ina Fried at the Wall Street Journal reports that Wi-Fi hotspot provider Boingo has the stats to prove that Apple devices are now dominating ...

Stem Innovation's iZON Remote Room Monitor is Apple friendly, easy to set up

by Steven Sande (Aug 29th, 2011)

Stem Innovation, the same company that brought iOS device owners the TimeCommand alarm dock and accompanying Stem:Command software, now has a new product out that looks like a winner. The iZON Remote Room Monitor (US$129.95) is a Wi-Fi connected, app-based video camera that can be used to keep an ...

Skype Wi-Fi iOS app lets you access the Internet on a per-minute basis

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 17th, 2011)

Skype has just released Skype Wi-Fi, a free iOS app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch that allows users to access more than one million paid Wi-Fi hotspots around the world, and pay for them via Skype Access. Here's how it works: Let's say you're in Budapest, Hungary and you've got your ...

How to auto-join hotspots in Lion

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 15th, 2011)

Lion makes it easy to join free Wi-Fi hotspots with landing pages, like those at Starbucks and McDonald's (often offered by AT&T in the US and BT OpenZone in the UK). Technology baked into OS X Lion eliminates the need to use a browser to pass a landing page that stands between you and the ...

Lion: Join captive networks without a web browser

by Michael Rose (Jul 23rd, 2011)

It's a relatively minor feature on Lion's 250+ list, but certainly a helpful one for frequent travelers or coffee shop denizens: browserless login to captive Wi-Fi networks. If you've ever used one of these institutional wireless offerings, you know how they work: first you connect to the ...

Apple appears to be dropping AirPort branding for Wi-Fi

by Steven Sande (Jun 14th, 2011)

Since 1999, when Steve Jobs introduced the iBook as the first portable computer with Wi-Fi capabilities, Apple has used the term AirPort to refer to 802.11 wireless connectivity. The rest of the world knows this technology by the name Wi-Fi, and it appears that with the upcoming release of Mac ...

Upcoming Time Capsule tied to iCloud, caches software updates?

by Chris Rawson (Jun 2nd, 2011)

We recently reported that many Apple retail stores are running low on stocks of AirPort devices, and this is usually a strong indicator of an upcoming product refresh. 9to5 Mac has followed up on that and says its sources claim a refresh is indeed imminent. A new version of the Time Capsule, ...

AirPort devices out of stock in many Apple Stores, refresh imminent?

by Chris Rawson (Jun 1st, 2011)

We've received reports from several Apple Stores across the US stating that some AirPort devices are either low in stock or out of stock altogether. A reader let us know that all of the Apple Stores in his area are out of AirPort Express models, and one of our sources confirmed the Apple Store ...

New iMac, MacBook Pro support 450 Mbit/sec Wi-Fi

by Michael Grothaus (May 6th, 2011)

HardMac is reporting that the newest iMacs released this week support up to 450 Mbit/sec Wi-Fi, following in the footsteps of the latest MacBook Pros. To accomplish this, Apple added a third antenna to the machines. Each antenna is capable of a data rate of 150 Mbit/sec. Combined, the three ...

Verizon launches 4G mobile hotspot

by Dana Franklin (Mar 30th, 2011)

Customers can now order the new Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot online or in Verizon Stores, Samsung and Verizon announced on Tuesday. The new mobile hotspot, which allows up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices to connect to Verizon's 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network at the same time, will begin ...