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Are UK Businesses Failing To Realise The Potential Of Workplace Wi-Fi?

Just a few short years ago, working life heavily revolved around the office as the hub of all activity.

BT Offers SMEs 4G Mobile Tariffs Including Unlimited Wi-Fi

The new plans cater for a wide range of business needs, including SIM-only and data-only tariffs, and are on EE’s network.

Case Study: ForeScout Supports Long Road Sixth Form College BYOD Policy

Long Road Sixth Form College is based in Cambridge. With 2200 students, it is one of the largest in East Anglia. The organisation’s IT estate comprises of 50 servers - half virtual, half physical - 1200 PCs, 300 laptops and 150 Macs. Its main aim is to make learning as easy and effective as possible for students while maintaining high levels of examination success.

Case Study: Orleans Park Accelerates Learning With Fastest Wi-Fi Available

Before 2013, Orleans Park School had no wireless Internet access at all. With the help of ICT solutions provider Stone Group, the organisation has gone from nothing to both internal and external wi-fi access that has enabled the school to adopt a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy.

Case Study: Stone Group Helps Bring Tibshelf Community School To 21st Century

Tibshelf Community School is a Derbyshire-based organisation serving 787 students across nine villages in North East Derbyshire and Bolsover.

Cyber Criminals Using Hotel Wi-Fi To Compromise High Level Executives

Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a highly sophisticated scam which has been slurping sensitive data from top-level execs in luxury hotels for at least four years.

Debate Over Wireless Standard Uptake In Schools

ICT solutions provider Stone Group has claimed its customers in the education sector are adopting the new 802.11ac wireless standard, despite claims that general uptake in is slow.

EE Introduces Wi-Fi Calling Service

EE has just announced that its Wi-Fi Calling service is now live in the UK.

Forget Self-Driving Cars: Are You Ready For Self-Driving Lorries?

A DfT proposal has been drafted that could see computerised “road trains” of lorry convoys on British roads as early as 2015.

Friendly WiFi Accreditation Scheme Launched In UK

Any premises that is committed to protecting those using its services from inappropriate content can now display a logo that proves that.

Germany To Promote Wi-Fi Via New Bill

If you’ve ever been to Germany, you know it’s more likely you’ll stumble upon the World Cup trophy somewhere along the way, than to find a Wi-Fi internet connection in a cafe or a hotel somewhere.

Global Wi-Fi Hotspot Numbers To Dramatically Increase Over Next Four Years

According to a new study, the number of public Wi-Fi hotspots is set to increase from 47.7 million currently to more than 340 million in 2018, driven by the growth of community hotspots.

Gloucestershire Hospitals Deploys Wi-Fi To Support Digital Projects

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected a wi-fi provider to support its new clinical SmartCare project and patient services.

Google Set To Take Over NYC With Free Wi-FI

Google revealed Sidewalk Labs, an independent, fully owned company earlier this year, but gave no information on the project.

Google Unveils New Router For Fast Wi-Fi

Google has added a new string to its bow with the introduction of a router which it claims is not only secure, but dead easy to use with some clever ‘smart’ software.

Home Wi-Fi Beats Work Connection

People in the UK experience better wireless Internet connections at home rather than their workplace, according to a recent survey.

Hospitality Wi-Fi Shortcomings Losing Business

A study by global networking company NETGEAR has found that a third of small and medium-sized hospitality and leisure venues have struggled to introduce an effective wireless network due to reliability and security concerns.

Hundreds Of Tesco Stores Get Superfast Wi-fi

Tesco has turned up the heat on its technology aspirations by rolling out free Wi-Fi to almost a thousand of its largest supermarkets in the UK and Ireland.

Is The UK Ready For Digital Revolution Outlined In Party Manifestos?

Technology and investment in the UK’s digital future has been at the forefront of each of the three main parties’ manifestos this time around.

Japan Set To Tempt Tourists To Mount Fuji With Wi-Fi

Travelling to peaceful locations normally means removing yourself from technology, but Japan is embracing the new desire to use mobiles and laptops everywhere by adding free public WiFi on Mount Fuji.