Wireless Networking Stories for 2013

Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School 294
Inside the Massive 2014 Winter Olympics WiFi Network 107
Graphene-based Nanoantennas Could Allow WLANs of Nanodevices 45
Swarm Mobile's Offer: Free Wi-Fi In Exchange For Some Privacy 121
Skydiving Accident Leaves Security Guru Cedric 'Sid' Blancher Dead At 37 332
Google Patenting Less Noble Use of Project Loon Tech 87
FCC App Lets Android Users Measure Mobile Broadband Speed 93
Seattle PD Mum On Tracking By Its New Wi-Fi Mesh Network 107
Duke Univ. Device Converts Stray Wireless Energy Into Electricity For Charging 216
High-Gain Patch Antennas Boost Wi-Fi Capacity In Crowded Lecture Halls 104
Apple Blocks Lawrence Lessig's Comment On iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch 326
New York City To Get Manhole Covers That Wirelessly Charge Electric Vehicles 112
Connecting To Unsecured Bluetooth Car Systems To Monitor Traffic Flow 161
German Scientists Achieve Record 100Gbps Via Wireless Data Link 67
Unifying Undersea Wireless Communication Using TCP/IP 68
D-Link Router Backdoor Vulnerability Allows Full Access To Settings 228
Mountain View To Partially Replace Google Wi-Fi 69
802.11ac 'Gigabit Wi-Fi' Starts To Show Potential, Limits 101
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Project For a Router/Wi-Fi Access Point? 193
New Zealand Converting Old Phone Booths Into National WiFi Network 72
Wi-Fi Sniffing Lets Researchers Build Graph of Offline Social Networks 38
Court Declares Google Must Face Wiretap Charges For Wi-Fi Snooping 214
Wireless Charging Start-Up Claims 30-Foot Radius 242
How Africa Will 'Leapfrog' Wired Networks 183
The Big Hangup At Burning Man Is Cell Phones 167
Sources Say Amazon Testing Its Own Wireless Networking Service 23
Ask Slashdot: 4G Networking Advice For Large Outdoor Festival? 140
A New Spate of Deaths In the Wireless Industry 247
Wireless Devices Go Battery-Free With New Communication Technique 111
Londoners Tracked By Advertising Firm's Trash Cans 189
Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network 144
MS: Windows Phone 8 Wi-Fi Vulnerable, Cannot Be Patched 146
Wi-Fi Pineapple Hacking Device Sells Out At DEF CON 132
Extraneous Network Services Leave Home Routers Unsecure 63
Aussie Wi-Fi Patent Nears Expiry In the United States 48
Congress Wants FCC To Auction TV White Spaces 127
Sprint May Have Unlimited Data Plans, But Not Unlimited Customers 207
Long Range RFID Hacking Tool To Be Released At Black Hat 73
What Wi-Fi Would Look Like If We Could See It 120
Comcast May Put Wi-Fi Transceivers On Cars, Buses, Humans 85
How To Compete With NSA By Hacking a Verizon Network Extender 56
Mount Everest Gets 4G Connectivity 125
MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay 177
MIT Researchers Can See Through Walls Using Wi-Fi 75
Black Hat Talks To Outline Attacks On Home Automation Systems 79
2013 U.S. Wireless Network Tests: AT&T Fastest, Verizon Most Reliable 131
Wi-Fi Light Bulbs Shipping Soon 401
Google Floats Balloons For Free Wi-Fi 115
802.11ac: Better Coverage, But Won't Hit Advertised Speeds 107
iPhone Apparently Open To Old Wi-Fi Attack 90
Private Networks For Public Safety 45
Wi-Fi Signals Allow Gesture Recognition All Through the Home 122
Google Plans Wireless Networks In Emerging Markets 43
German Researchers Hit 40 Gbps On Wireless Link 104
Google's Nexus Q Successor Hits the FCC 56
9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers 327
Amtrak Upgrades Wi-Fi 164
Congress Wants Federal Government To Sell 1755-1780 MHz Spectrum Band 88
Researchers Are Developing Ad Hoc Networks For Car-To-Car Data Exchange 126
Tool Reveals iPad and iPhone User Locations 36
Study: Limiting Bidding On Spectrum Could Cost Billions 140
President Obama To Nominate Cable and Wireless Lobbyist To Head FCC 304
New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices 194
Microsoft Ad Campaign Puts a Hotspot Inside a Magazine 194
No Porn From Public WiFi Hotspots In the UK Proposed 390
Why It's So Hard To Make a Phone Call In Emergency Situations 179
Boston Officials Did Not Shut Down Cell Network After Marathon Bombing 211
FCC Issues Forfeiture Notices to Two Business for Jamming Cellular Frequencies 350
OpenWLANMap: Free WLAN-Based GPS Replacement 39
Energy Use From Wireless Networks Will Dwarf Data Center Use By 2015 42
Google Tests White Space Spectrum For School Broadband In South Africa 33
T-Mobile Ends Contracts and Subsidies 404
3G and 4G USB Modems Are Security Threat, Black Hat Presenter Says 50
NASA Wants New Space Net To Sustain Big Data Dumps; Moon and Mars Trips 63
Google Will Cut 1,200 More Jobs At Motorola Mobility 112
FTC Goes After Scammers Who Blasted Millions of Text Messages 79
Carmakers Oppose Opening Up 5GHZ Spectrum Space For Unlicensed Wi-Fi 186
North Korea To Enable Mobile Internet Access — For Visitors Only 114
Got a Cell Phone Booster? FCC Says You Have To Turn It Off 245
FCC Moves To Boost Wireless Speeds 40
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? 884
First Bionic Eye Gets FDA Blessing 42
Britain Could Switch Off Airport Radar and Release 5G Spectrum 175
Connecting Android Phones Without Carrier Networks 102
Open Spectrum Does Not Mean Free Internet 60
Startup Uses Radiation Fear To Map Cellphone Coverage 81
FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi 299
As 4G Seeps In, Verizon Offers Cheap(er) No-Contract 3G Plans 67
AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. 798
US Wants Apple, Google, and Microsoft To Get a Grip On Mobile Privacy 103
Can Any Smartphone Platform Overcome the Android/iOS Duopoly? 404
Making Wireless Carriers Play Together 58
Free Wi-Fi: the Movement To Give Away Your Internet For the Good of Humanity 505
What the FCC's Wi-Fi Expansion Means For You 132
Have a Wi-Fi-Enabled Phone? Stores Are Tracking You 323
DARPA Wants To Seed the Ocean With Delayed-Action Robot Pods 67
Google Wiring New York City's Chelsea For Free Wi-Fi 67
Toyota To Show Off Autonomous Prototype Car At CES Show 126
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deploy Small Office Wi-Fi SSIDs? 172