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2005
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November 25, 2005
There are few things quite as nice as opening your laptop at a coffee shop, connecting wirelessly to a network, and enjoying a cup of coffee. |
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November 9, 2005
Internet travel site Expedia has turned to JiWire to provide its customers with the whereabouts of Wi-Fi hot spots at their intended destinations. |
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November 9, 2005
JiWire, the leading provider of information and services to help people connect to the Internet without wires, today announced that Expedia, Inc., one of the world's leading travel service companies, has chosen to include information from the company's WiFi Hotspot Finder in its online travel booking service. |
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November 8, 2005
There are few things quite as nice as opening your laptop at a coffee shop, connecting wirelessly to a network, and enjoying a cup of coffee. |
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November 3, 2005
This subscription-based VPN service provides robust wireless security and serves as an SMTP relay. If you use hot spots frequently and don't have access to a corporate VPN, this product is for you. |
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November 2, 2005
All around the country there are thousands of freely accessible hot spots just waiting to get you hooked on the convenience of using Wi-Fi for your Internet access. The problem is that most of them operate without any form of security. |
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October 14, 2005
"[Higher-end] hotels have always nickel-and-dimed guests. I just don't see that going away," said David Blumenfeld, vice president of marketing at JiWire Inc., a San Francisco company that offers a Web-based directory of Wi-Fi hot spots. |
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October 5, 2005
If you do not have a corporate information technology person at your disposal but want a VPN of your own, you might want to try JiWire's SpotLock. When you use SpotLock ($50 a year), your data stays encrypted from its origin inside your computer all the way through the public wireless network and onto the Internet. Once it hits JiWire's servers, it is decrypted and directed wherever it needs to go, safely out of range of coffee-shop bandits. |
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September 28, 2005
FOR LAPTOP users who want to plan their travels around WiFi access, JiWire Inc. has an answer: install its toolbar on your browser for quick access to a directory of all 72,000 WiFi hot spots across the globe. |
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September 27, 2005
With Google joining the Wi-Fi hotspot hosted VPN game, JiWire ? which has such a service itself, called SpotLock ? isn't resting on its laurels. The hotspot directory provider today announced the WiFi Toolbar, a browser add-on that includes all the stuff you get in the separate SpotLock utility: access to the directory of 70,000 hotspot locations, connection status, and the ability to turn on the secure SpotLock VPN tunnel. |
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September 27, 2005
JiWire released a free Firefox toolbar that promotes their SpotLock VPN service, but also provides a large variety of useful information, including network status and signal strength as well as the security of Web sites. |
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August 31, 2005
Wi-Fi hotspots can now be found in 100 countries around the world, according to recent data released by JiWire. The United States tops JiWire's list of Wi-Fi friendly countries for having the greatest number of hotspot locations, followed by the United Kingdom, Germany and France. |
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August 9, 2005
Security tunnels lock the connection from the access point to the Krystal network operations center. Like most free hotspots, however, there's no security built in for the end users. Connections are free to anyone who seeks out the SSID "KrystalHotspot." Customers can bring their own security, though, if they use services like JiWire's SpotLock. |
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July 25, 2005
A small two-year-old company called JiWire is building a business by licensing its global wireless hot-spot locator, first to Web sites and now to mobile content providers. 4Info, a mobile search service, has signed a licensing agreement with JiWire where users send a text message to 4-INFO (44634) from their mobile phones to find hot spots anywhere in the United States. The service will be available starting Aug. 1. |
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July 4, 2005
WiFi hotspots can now be found in 100 countries around the world, according to JiWire. The United States tops JiWire's list of WiFi friendly countries for having the greatest number of hotspot locations, followed by the United Kingdom, Germany and France. |
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June 30, 2005
What do you consider essential carry-alongs? A good book? How about a laptop? Better yet, a laptop with wireless networking so you can plug into the Internet whenever you hit a WiFi hotspot in your travels. But you'd better be careful. You never know who may be tuning in to your surfing habits while you're sipping a morning latte in your hotel's coffee shop or dining al fresco at a busy cafe. That's why a company called JiWire, which publishes what it says is the world's largest directory of WiFi hotspots, has started marketing SpotLock. |
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June 26, 2005
Anyone planning a genuine combo of work and play will likely tote along a notebook computer. If that's your plan, you may want wireless Internet
access to connect to the office. A popular WiFi hotspot locator, JiWire (www.jiwire.com), will help
you seek out high-speed wireless links around the world. |
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June 19, 2005
"SpotLock is a combination of free software and a $4.95-a-month service that allows wireless jocks to jack into cyberspace from any hot
spot without getting burned by broadcast bandits." |
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May 20, 2005
"As Wi-Fi goes more mainstream, more people are trying to take advantage of users," said Craig Lurey, chief technology officer at JiWire
Inc., a Wi-Fi directory publisher based in San Francisco. "Now, if you get a Wi-Fi connection, it is up to you to determine if it is good or bad." |
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May 4, 2005
Despite having 63,000+ hotspots worldwide to show in its online directory, JiWire is ready to provide even more for those who use public
access Wi-Fi all the time. JiWire is offering for download a beta software utility called SpotLock that provides a simple graphical interface to connect users to
hotspots (or home or corporate networks, for that matter). What's more, the software?currently only for Windows 2000 and XP? will offer VPN secured connections. |
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May 3, 2005
San Francisco-based JiWire on Tuesday introduced a $5-a-month service to enhance the security of Internet connections
at any of the thousands of Wi-Fi hot spots identified in its Global Hotspot Directory. |
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April 29, 2005
JiWire's WiFi Hotspot Finder has expanded its reach by adding access for Mac OS X version 10.4 users. The directory
can be access via a Dashboard widget. |
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April 26, 2005
JiWire is the largest and best one I've found and claims to have more than 63,500 Wi-Fi Hotspots in 99 countries listed in its directory.
The advanced search page lets you search by address, business, location type (such as hotel or airport), service provider and cost. |
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March 28, 2005
What business travelers want is to be able to open their notebooks and have them automatically recognize available hotspots and connect to
them, said Doug Cooper, the Canada country manager at Intel of Canada in Toronto?But hotspots are catching on, he said. There are currently some 60,217 hotspots
worldwide, and 1,078 in Canada, according to jiwire.com. |
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March 18, 2005
The number of WiFi hot spots -- more than 60,000 in 98 countries --is increasing rapidly, according to JiWire, a company that
monitors WiFi locations. |
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March 3, 2005
Connecting wirelessly: Whether you're looking for a wireless hotspot around the corner or across the globe, a good place
to start your search is JiWire.com. The JiWire database contains locations and details for more than 57,000 hotspots in 95 countries. |
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March 1, 2005
About half of the USA's 30 busiest airports provide Wi-Fi in public areas, according to a USA TODAY survey. All offer it in airline
clubs. David Blumenfeld, vice president at JiWire.com, an online hot-spot directory, says the number of hot spots in public places tripled last year. It's
expected to double again this year. |
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February 10, 2005
Last month, Las Vegas' McCarran International became the largest U.S. airport to offer free wireless Internet access. It joins a growing
roster of smaller, regional airports from Ontario, Calif., to Fort Myers, Fla., to do so. (For a directory, check out
JiWire.com or
WiFiFreespot.com.) |
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February 9, 2005
"Wi-fi hot spots have sprouted here for a variety of reasons, including that Atlanta draws legions of business travelers, and many of its
800-plus hotels cater to customers' high-tech needs by offering wi-fi. Hotels are a leading provider of wi-fi hot spots worldwide, said David Blumenfeld, JiWire's
vice president of marketing. "It's such a natural place for the traveler to set up as a home base," Blumenfeld said. "And, obviously, with hotels already offering
high-speed wired access, it was just the next step." |
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January 23, 2005
"For those interested in finding Wi-Fi hot spots, check out
www.jiwire.com before traveling. The site, which underwent an overhaul in July, maps the locations of more than 20,000
public hot spots in the United States and allows users to search by state or by the type of place (like cafes, hotels or airports) where they would like to
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January 17, 2005
"The site (JiWire.com) also allows users to refine searches to find
only free hotspots, find sites that have 802.11g or 802.11b hotspots or only those in hotels. The site also offers downloadable hotspot locators for the PC or
Mac, handheld computers and cell phones. And when those devices are connected to the Internet, the site will automatically download updates to reflect new sites." |
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January 16, 2005
"Those interested in finding WiFi HotSpots should consider checking
www.jiwire.com before traveling. The site, which underwent an overhaul in July, maps the
locations of more than 20,000 publicly available hot spots in the United States, and allows users to search by state, or by the type of place (like cafes, hotels
or airports) where they would like to connect." |
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January 10, 2005
"There?s a need to honor the best and finest mobile computing and wireless data communications products and services." |
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January 4, 2005
"The new funding for JiWire Inc. illustrates the growing clout of WiFi, the technology that lets electronic devices such as notebook
computers connect wirelessly to the Internet. And it suggests that investors are warming to funding dot-com companies, which fell out of favor during the tech
meltdown of 2000." |
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January 4, 2005
"JiWire Inc.has received an investment from early-stage venture capital group DFJ Frontier?Lenet praised founder and CEO Kevin McKenzie for
his "entrepreneurial hustle" and ability to deliver results with limited capital. Lenet said Monday that the decision to fund JiWire was based on the company's
strong market position and strong management, lead by McKenzie, who came from the online shopping side of CNET." |
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