Tag: FON
BT and Fon have finally confirmed their long-expected partnership, thus creating the largest Wi-Fi community in the world.
Rumors that BT and Fon were in talks about the deal have been circulating for months, but Thursday's announcement is the first official confirmation. Fon has signed similar deals with France’s Neuf Cegetel and the U.S.’ Time Warner.
Martin Varsavsky, Fon's founder and chief executive, said: "From the beginning, Fon users believed in the concept of sharing and in the people's ability to participate in building...
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WeFi launched a short while ago and provides its users with pinpointed WiFi locations, and connects users of that connection with one another. The tool is a downloadable client for Mac and PC users, having a similar feel to an IM application. When WeFi is launched users are presented with a map of all of the WiFi connections in the area. This includes open, locked, and restricted connections.
In the future, WeFi will be incorporating all sorts of tools that help users gauge the quality of signals including hot spot reviews.
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Martin Varsavsky, Founder and CEO of Fon, just send out the memo to all Fon employees:
As of today Fon will disengage from Microsoft and adopt Linux in the Ubuntu form as our operating system of choice.
I would like to ask all Foneros to pls migrate to Ubuntu at your earliest convenience. As of next week Fon will not buy any more Microsoft licenses, nor install, service any new Microsoft programs on any existing computers. All the software we use will be Open Source unless a certain package we need is not easily available in Open Source...
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