Archive for February, 2009
AppleInsider has a story on an Apple Australia package in the AU store which supposedly is a wireless bundle with Unwired. Unwired is the wireless ISP offering the uConnect free wifi service across Sydney. Unwired is also one of the slowest ways to connect wirelessly, and only available in metro areas. I wonder why Apple would team up with them?
Unwired would also be in the process of rolling out Wimax on a national network. Will we see the introduction of a new Airport range and a national Wimax service?
Additionally, Unwired is owned (partially?) by the Seven tv network, which also owns the Australian rights for Tivo distribution. A fast national wireless network might help the rollout of new Tivo services.
Tonight’s free Wifi at Sydney Twestival (at 19:30, Australian Centre for Photography, 257 Oxford St, Paddington, NSW 2021) is brought to you by Unwired’s uConnect.
“Twestival participants can bring their laptop or mobile devices and continue to tweet through the night on the Unwired wireless connection.”
Enjoy, I’d say!
Chris Duran has set up a free wifi mapping project, just what we have been waiting for (and I was too lazy to do myself):
WiFi in Australia is a “user-generated and user-moderated maps of WiFi hotspots all over Australia”.
Any one can add any wifi (open, paid, restricted) they encounter, so start contributing!
Bruce Schneier in UK’s The Guardian on the the Mumbai attacks and the use of communication technology by the terrorists, and the subsequent call of the Indian gouvernment to ban Google Earth, as well as open wifi:
Open wifi networks are useful for many reasons, the large majority of them positive, and closing them down affects all those reasons. [...] I haven’t seen it talked about yet, but the Mumbai terrorists used boats as well. They also wore boots. They ate lunch at restaurants, drank bottled water, and breathed the air.