Wireless Networking Stories for 2014

Glowing Hobbit Sword Helps You Find Unsecured Wi-Fi 67
Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi 293
Goodbye, Alek's Internet-Controlled Christmas Lights for Celiac Research 21
BT To Buy UK 4G Leader EE For £12.5 Billion 39
Bluetooth Gains Direct Internet Access, Security Enhancements 47
A Case Against Further Government Spectrum Auctions 66
How the Rollout of 5G Will Change Everything 216
Bidding In Government Auction of Airwaves Reaches $34 Billion 85
Google's Project Loon Can Now Launch Up To 20 Balloons Per Day, Fly 10x Longer 116
NYC To Replace Most of Its Payphones With Free Gigabit WiFi In 2015 106
SatNOGS Wins the 2014 Hackaday Prize For Satellite Networked Open Ground Station 21
Informational Wi-Fi Traffic As a Covert Communication Channel For Malware 16
Study: There's a Wi-Fi Hotspot For Every 150 People In the World 63
Ask Slashdot: Unlimited Data Plan For Seniors? 170
LAX To London Flight Delayed Over "Al-Quida" Wi-Fi Name 339
FCC Postpones Spectrum Auction Until 2016 31
Verizon Injects Unique IDs Into HTTP Traffic 206
Ask Slashdot: LTE Hotspot As Sole Cellular Connection? 107
Gigabit Cellular Networks Could Happen, With 24GHz Spectrum 52
An Air Traffic Control System For Drones 77
Internet Companies Want Wireless Net Neutrality Too 38
Samsung Achieves Outdoor 5G Mobile Broadband Speed of 7.5Gbps 36
Tiny Wireless Device Offers Tor Anonymity 68
Samsung's Wi-Fi Upgrades Promise Speeds Up to 4.6Gbps 92
BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer 429
Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots 278
Ask Slashdot: Is It Worth Being Grandfathered On Verizon's Unlimited Data Plan? 209
Boeing Told To Replace Cockpit Screens Affected By Wi-Fi 142
LTE Upgrade Will Let Phones Connect To Nearby Devices Without Towers 153
BT and Coke To Offer Free Rural Wi-Fi In South Africa Through Vending Machines 71
Facebook To Start Testing Internet-Beaming Drones In 2015 42
Popular Wi-Fi Thermostat Full of Security Holes 103
New Long-Range RFID Technology Helps Robots Find Household Objects 38
Scientists Twist Radio Beams To Send Data At 32 Gigabits Per Second 122
L.A. TV Stations Free Up Some Spectrum For Wireless Broadband 80
Device Boots Drones, Google Glass Off Wi-Fi 184
Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots 230
Wi-Fi Router Attack Only Requires a Single PIN Guess 84
Ryan Lackey, Marc Rogers Reveal Inexpensive Tor Router Project At Def Con 38
T-Mobile To Throttle Customers Who Use Unlimited LTE Data For Torrents/P2P 147
Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? 427
Russia Cracks Down On Public Wi-Fi; Oracle Blocks Java Downloads In Russia 254
The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router 224
Expensive Hotels Really Do Have Faster Wi-Fi 72
Harvesting Wi-Fi Backscatter To Power Internet of Things Sensors 138
Planes Can Be Hacked Via Inflight Wi-fi, Says Researcher 151
Verizon Now Throttling Top 'Unlimited' Subscribers On 4G LTE 274
How the Internet of Things Could Aid Disaster Response 60
'Optical Fiber' Made Out of Thin Air 115
EFF Releases Wireless Router Firmware For Open Access Points 56
AirMagnet Wi-Fi Security Tool Takes Aim At Drones 52
FCC Approves Plan To Spend $5B Over Next Five Years On School Wi-Fi 54
Wireless Contraception 302
Free Wi-Fi Supplier, Gowex, Files For Bankruptcy 39
Android Leaks Location Data Via Wi-Fi 112
Funding for iFind Kickstarter Suspended 104
Florida Man Faces $48k Fine For Jamming Drivers' Cellphones 358
$500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now 448
EFF To Unveil Open Wireless Router For Open Wireless Movement 184
Chinese Vendor Could Pay $34.9M FCC Fine In Signal-Jammer Sting 188
Wireless Industry Lobbying Hard to Keep Net Neutrality Out 85
Huawei, Vodafone Test Out Hybrid System That Combines LTE and GSM 46
EU, South Korea Collaborate On Superfast 5G Standards 78
Can Google Connect the Unconnected 2/3 To the Internet? 99
Comcast Converting 50,000 Houston Home Routers Into Public WiFi Hotspots 474
Replicating the NSA's Gadgets Using Open Source 47
Free Wi-Fi Coming To Atlanta's Airport 135
Huawei Successfully Tests New 802.11ax WiFi Standard At 10.53Gbps 116
Tiniest Linux COM Yet? 76
How MIT and Caltech's Coding Breakthrough Could Accelerate Mobile Network Speeds 129
US Wireless Carriers Shifting To Voice Over LTE 126
Silicon Valley To Get a Cellular Network Just For Things 42
Ericsson Trial 10Gbps 5G Mobile Broadband Network in Japan 53
Samsung 'Smart' Camera Easily Hackable 62
Google Mulling Wi-Fi For Cities With Google Fiber 39
Ask Slashdot: Which Router Firmware For Bandwidth Management? 104
In-Flight Wi-Fi Provider Going Above and Beyond To Help Feds Spy 78
New MU-MIMO Standard Could Allow For Gigabit WiFi Throughput 32
WSJ: Prepare To Hang Up the Phone — Forever 449
Ubuntu Phone Isn't Important Enough To Demand an Open Source Baseband 137
WPA2 Wireless Security Crackable WIth "Relative Ease" 150
Wireless Carriers In Huge Washington Lobby Fight Over Spectrum Auction 51
Harsh Wireless Conditions? Send In the Drone Hot Spot 20
Stanford Team Tries For Better Wi-Fi In Crowded Buildings 43
Comcast Turning Chicago Homes Into Xfinity Hotspots 253
Crowded US Airwaves Desperately In Search of Spectrum Breathing Room 105
Scientists Demonstrate Virus That Spreads Across Wi-Fi Access Points 68
New 'pCell' Technology Could Bring Next Generation Speeds To 4G Networks 120
Routers Pose Biggest Security Threat To Home Networks 264
Linksys Routers Exploited By "TheMoon" 134
11-Year UK Study Reports No Health Danger From Mobile Phone Transmissions 180
The Standards Wars and the Sausage Factory 234
Canadian Spy Agency Snooped Travelers With Airport Wi-Fi 159
Old-school Wi-Fi Is Slowing Down Networks, Cisco Says 254
Sniffing and Decoding NRF24L01+ and Bluetooth LE Packets For Under $30 46
Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points 113
Linksys Resurrects WRT54G In a New Router 310