Google announced today that the Wi-Fi snooping
Chevy Pickup Trucks Get More Internets Than Chevy Volt
Earlier this month GM announced "Chevrolet Wi-Fi" by Autonet Mobile as an option on seven Chevy vehicles including the Silverado pickup. Weirdly, despite the Chevy Volt
SF Gets Public Transit Hybrid Bus With Wi-Fi, Other Goods
San Francisco's public transit system is getting a bit of an upgrade as the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (MUNI) has teamed up with technology company, CISCO, for The Connected Bus—a public transportation bus that is a little more desirable than the traditional buses used in public transit systems. The…
Newspaper Launches WiFi Mobile NewsBlazer
In an effort to prove that print journalism is "with it" and "nifty," the Shelby Star of Cleveland County, North Carolina has launched a mobile newsroom. Called "The Star Car," this modified Chevy TrailBlazer features a GPS tracking system, cell-based wireless, a laptop and a dash-mounted camera so that people can watch news …
A Future of Wi-Fi Parking Tickets
The promise of wi-fi technology enabling an open transfer of data and ideas for the computer packing everyman is rapidly unraveling. Streetline Networks CEO Tod Dykstra wants cities to stuff their coffers with lost parking ticket revenue using his company's wireless parking monitoring technology. Streetline's vehicle…
Avis Putting WiFi in Rental Cars
The people who try harder are adding one more way to chew up your daily rental car allowance: for eleven smacks a day, our circuit-geek brothers at Gizmodo report, you'll soon be able to add a WiFi hotspot to your car. The service works via cell towers and offers up speeds somewhere between dialup and DSL. While our…
DaimlerChrysler Tests WLAN Car-to-Car Communication System
Car-to-car communication has nothing to do with gesturing after a close call on the highway. Futurists foresee a time when cars will use systems of GPS and WiFi tech to let them communicate with each other, relaying information about road conditions and traffic anomalies to prevent smash-ups. DaimlerChrysler is…
Wi-Fi! For Safety!
Dr. Raja Sengupta of Cal has come up with a novel imminent-collision-awareness idea. First, we kill all the lawyers. Then we equip each car with GPS and a Wi-Fi transmitter. Then, cars talk to each other and decide where they are in relation to each other. It's an interesting idea, and GM's throwing some money at it,…
