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Google Makes Holiday Travel More Tolerable With Free WiFi
Here's one holiday stress relieved: Google recently announced they'd be sponsoring free WiFi in airports across the country this holiday season, from now through January 15. Google VP, search and user experience, Marissa Mayer says, "We're very happy to extend our Holiday WiFi gift to the millions of people who will spend time in airports over the next few months."
Which I translate to, "Happy Holidays, here is something to keep you sane when your flight is delayed for the third time.
Daily Tech: Microsoft Offers Free WiFi at Hotspots Nationwide
- Did you know that if you make one Bing search in many airports and hotels across the country, you can get free WiFi access? — Download Squad
- Canon's new semipro DSLR gets taken for a test drive — Gizmodo
- Here are some gift suggestions all the geeky dads out there — Wired
- Starting today, Yahoo and the Times Square Alliance have teamed up to provide free WiFi service to the public — The Silicon Alley Insider
- The popular website Elf Yourself is back for another year — TechCrunch
- Esquire's December issue, featuring augmented reality, hits newsstands today — Engadget
Daily Tech: BlackBerry Announces a TiVo App
- BlackBerry users with a TiVo box can now record their favorite shows remotely with the TiVo app — The Boy Genius Report
- Borders will be rolling out free WiFi in 500 store locations across the country — CrunchGear
- Wired chats with Felicia Day about the Guild and what it's like to be a geek in Hollywood — Wired
- A BlackBerry desktop manager for Macs is said to be coming out on Oct. 2 — Engadget
- Zipcar releases a pretty sweet iPhone app that will even unlock your car for you — USA Today
- The Motorola Cliq android handset is coming to stores on Nov. 2 and will cost $200 — Gizmodo
- It's giveaway and game time on GeekSugar!
New York Coffee Shops Begin Banning Laptop Users
Love to spend all day using the free WiFi in your local coffee shop? You might have to say sayonara to this, if your beanery is one of the many in New York that are starting to ban laptop users from hanging out.
The restrictions are for peak hours and only discourage those who aren't eating while typing or surfing; downing coffee won't save your seat, sadly.
Some Tech Freebies Worth Knowing About
Surprisingly, there are plenty of ways to enjoy modern technology and its many facets, without spending a single cent. OK, so you might need the laptop or cell phone to actually access the goods, but these goods are free, and there really just isn't anything that compares with that. From locating free WiFi, to finding free movies on iTunes, I'll hook you up with the tell-all freebie secrets.
Barnes & Noble to Provide Free AT&T WiFi
Just one week after unveiling a new eReader and eBooks Store, Barnes & Noble continues to impress by announcing today that they will offer complimentary WiFi access in stores across the country.
What this means is customers can easily download and preview any of the 700,000 eBook titles and opt in to receive personal Barnes & Noble messages, which include coupons to the in-store café, author book signing notifications or where to find a new books in the store. They had me at free.
iPhone App You Need: WiFi Finder
I've done the old, desperate WiFi hunt, and it is not cool. I appreciate and try to seek out any tips on finding free WiFi, so if an iPhone app can do it — for free, no less — then I am downloading that sucker immediately.
WiFi Finder is a free iPhone App that finds the nearest available WiFi, but it's not just limited to finding free connections, because sometimes you're in such need that you don't care if you have to pay.
Find Free WiFi Hotspots and Internet Cafes in Your Area
I know I have a tendency to go on about beautiful new devices and hot new Nintendo DSi colors, but at the end of the day, I know that we are all in this financial crisis together.
Yesterday I created a list of six websites to help you better manage your finances, and today I wanted to share some more useful tools and sites that will help job seekers search for employment opportunities.
If you don't have Internet access, but you do have a laptop or cell phone with WiFi connectivity, OpenWiFiSpots provides a directory of over 24,647 free WiFi hotspots in the US.
Daily Tech: The Helio 2 Is New and Improved
- After a thorough review, the Helio Ocean 2 gets two big thumbs up. You can now pick one up from Virgin Mobile for $149. — Crave
- TechCrunch's Michael Arrington chatted with 28-year-old Etsy founder Rober Kalin at the World Economic Forum at Davos.
Do You Still Rely on Free WiFi?
Ahh, I remember the good ol' days of searching for hot spots so I could log onto the Internet when I was away from home. Nowadays, I just use my 3G network on my iPhone to get me to where I need to go in cyberspace. But for those of you who don't have the wonderkid of cell phones (or a strong "legal" Internet connection at your house), you still may be left out in the cold.
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