Roxbury MA VoIP

The pilot is one of the first phases in a push to install a WiFi network throughout the city. That network would be owned and overseen by an as-yet-unnamed nonprofit organization, which would provide wholesale access to a number of Internet service providers.
Pam Reeve, the former high-tech executive appointed by Menino to seek funding for the nonprofit, said the city is meeting with neighborhood groups to discuss how and when the wireless access in Roxbury will be rolled out. “My hope is we’ll be well under way by the end of the year,” she said.
Menino touted the test project as a way of bridging the “digital divide” between economic classes.
WiFi access will initially be available for free in the Roxbury neighborhoods and then, after a period of time, prices are expected to be between $10 and $15 a month.
The envisioned citywide wireless network would charge a similiar monthly rate for residents while providing free access in public areas.
Menino also formally lit two large-scale WiFi hotspots around Quincy Market and Columbus Park. Those areas are available for free and are meant to drive business and tourism.

WiFi Wireless Deployment Unit

The Company has long been ready for fulfillment of orders and this business unit will set the stage for the expected volume of orders now that legislation will require container security.
The components or "parts" are available and deliverable under contract with WiFi Wireless, Inc.
WiFi Systems Integration and Deployment, LLC will provide professional services for WiFi Wireless, Inc.'s delivery to client installations.
Each custom client solution will be assembled, fulfilled and delivered on a timely, dependable and reliable manner through this business unit.
"Fulfillment services are a vital component of deploying custom solutions for our clients. This arm is accountable to insure smooth delivery and quality assurance of all product fulfillment," said WiFi Chairman Gene L. Curcio.
WiFi Wireless has taken the concept of a cargo container ID tag and turned it into a remarkable ship board utility offering continuous cargo monitoring and management features such as: real-time container identification, security alerts (cargo tampering detection), temperature monitoring, and hazardous or explosive materials detection.

Zing Player

The Zing Player also uses WiFi to snatch access to internet and Sirius channels. It’s quite small as well, especially compared to the Sirius.
There’s also a dock and a click-wheel, which wasn’t touch-based but still pretty cool. No pricing and availability information just yet.

Zune WiFi

MICROSOFT has unveiled its wireless-enabled Zune digital music and video player, scheduled to go on sale this Christmas in competition with Apple's iPod.
Sharing: Microsoft Zune playerThe player offers a 30GB hard drive, comes in black, white and brown, and allows users to wirelessly share music with nearby devices.
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, is trying to take some of Apple's 77 per cent share of the $US4 billion ($5.3 billion) North American market for digital music players.
The company will have better luck taking share from its partners that make devices using Windows software, which account for about 20 per cent of the market, says Matt Rosoff, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft. "They won't make a dent in iPod immediately.The software is the big mystery.
"If it works like iTunes, that's great, but if it's broken, buggy or has a bad user interface, forget about it."
The company declined to discuss the price or say when the device will go on sale. The Zune Marketplace will sell individual songs or subscriptions to download an unlimited number for a flat fee. Apple's iTunes sells both music and video.
Microsoft is touting Zune's wireless connection as a way to let users discover new music and share songs. Customers will be able to send songs to nearby devices. Those songs will expire after three plays or three days, whichever comes first.

Silicon Valley WiFi

The project is the largest of a new breed of wireless networks being built across the country. They are taking advantage of the falling cost of providing high-speed Internet access over radio waves as opposed to cable or telephone lines.
The project will cover 1,500 square miles in 38 cities in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda and Santa Cruz Counties, an area of 2.4 million residents. Its builders, going by the name Silicon Valley Metro Connect, said the service would provide free basic wireless access at speeds up to 1 megabit a second — which is roughly comparable to broadband speeds by telephone — in outdoor areas. Special equipment, costing $80 to $120, will be needed to bolster the signal enough to bring it inside homes or offices.
The consortium will also offer a fee-based service, with higher speeds and technical support, and will allow other companies to sell premium services over the network as well.

GoogleWifi

Google is providing a free WiFi network under "GoogleWifi" (802.11b/g) in Mountain View, CA. Anyone can use it, including business, visitors and the 72,000+ residents. You must sign into the network with your Google Account, it is not fully public in that sense, but anyone can register for access. Ready to get started using GoogleWifi?

Boston WiFi

Boston will tap a nonprofit corporation to blanket the city with ``open access" wireless Internet connections, under a plan to be unveiled today by Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
The plan, which envisions raising $16 million to $20 million from local businesses and foundations, is a striking departure from the business models used by other cities, including Philadelphia and San Francisco, which have turned over responsibility for their wireless data networks to outside companies such as Earthlink Inc. and Google Inc.
By empowering an independent organization to own and operate the city's WiFi, or wireless fidelity, network, Boston is hoping to keep control of the technology deployment and use it to spur innovation, improve city services, and extend wireless Internet access into low-income neighborhoods across the so-called digital divide. WiFi allows laptops, handheld computers, cellphones, music players, and other devices to connect to the Internet at high speeds via radio waves.
``They want to create a wholesale network and open it up for entrepreneurs to build all kinds of applications on top of it," said Jim Daniell , a Boston venture capitalist who tracks wireless development around the country. ``If this model works, it will probably become the dominant pattern other municipalities adopt. It could be a blueprint."
Menino is scheduled to roll out the much-anticipated plan at a City Hall news conference this afternoon. It was crafted by the mayor's Wireless Task Force and cochaired by Joyce Plotkin , president of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council; Rick Burnes , cofounder of the venture capital firm Charles River Ventures; and retired Harvard Business School professor James Cash . The mayor created the task force in February to enable Boston to catch up to the dozens of other US cities working to spread wireless Internet access.