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…and PNC Bank is also on my list of financial institutions that could care less about the average Joe.
Apparently when you travel to a foreign country INCLUDING CANADA VIA turns off your ATM card. My wife is currently traveling in Toronto and has NO ACCESS TO HER ACCOUNTS.
When I called my BANK, PNC Bank based in Maryland, and D.C. all they could do was tell me to call a VISA 800 number.
This has been going on for TWO DAYS and she has yet to be able to access an ATM there.
This was NEVER a problem beofre and now it apparently is a VERY BIG problem.
I am POISED to take all of my accounts out of my current bank PnC Bank for their INABILITY and UNWILLINGNESS to help my wife access her funds a few hundred miles outside of the USA.
When you travel to Canada be SURE to call VISA AND TAKE AMERICAN EXPRESS. I am calling American Express Gold Card people next!
I am SO TIRED of being treated like SCUM by so-called American businesses. Damn tired.
Hopes for Wireless Cities Are Fading By IAN URBINA PHILADELPHIA — It was hailed as Internet for the masses when Philadelphia officials announced plans in 2005 to erect the largest municipal Wi-Fi grid in the country, stretching wireless access over 135 square miles with the hope of bringing free or low-cost service to all residents
Wi-Fi networking range is like money, candy, and free time. You can never have too much of it. Getting more range out of your wireless networking gear can be a challenge, but it isn’t impossible. (Visit this link at Yahoo Tech to learn more.)
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The Eye-Fi 2GB SD Card that can wirelessly transfer pics to your computer just got FCC approval. There’s an 802.11b/g Wi-Fi chip on board, allowing you to upload shots that you’ve taken without plugging in your camera.
CBS Networks offers free wifi access in Manhattan. And my office is right in the midst. Thanks CBS!
(PopWireless: CBS in partnership with MTA. Click read more for the details.)
Rail operators are scrambling to cash in on their early adoption of Wi-Fi and steal passengers from the air. David Binning reports.
An announcement from Britain’s favourite security pundit, Graham Cluley of Sophos, “reveals” that “Over 50% of people polled admit they have stolen WiFi internet access.” But, no doubt, they didn’t inhale.
(PopWireless: In Britain they arrest and prosecute people stealing wifi. Go to DIGG.COM and search using the words “steal wifi.” A couple of articles appear about a London resident sitting on a garden wall using his neighbor’s wifi. A $1000 fine and what amounts to twelve months probation.)
The United States …found Buffalo to infringe the ‘069 patent and enjoined the importation and sale of Buffalo’s IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g compliant products. This could be catastrophic for the Wi-Fi industry and not just for Buffalo! Click read more to visit their site and read the details. Our thanks to Evert Bopp’s Wireless News for alerting us to this story. Evert’s site is listed in the News section of our Blogroll.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is reportedly “very interested” in a world where people share their WiFi connections in return for free access to other wireless hotspots in their communities, and recently met with the founder of upstart provider FON, whose business aims might just dovetail with the iPhone maker.
(PopWireless: Get the scoop at Appleinsider.com. Click read more.)
Due to California Wildfires AT&T has stated it will be offering Free T-Mobile Hot Spot Wi-Fi services to San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Orange and Ventura counties. There will be about 600 locations to get AT&T hot spot wi-fi at no charge.
The offering began on October 27th, 2007 and will last a few weeks.
The SMC WSKP100 Skype Wi-Fi phone extends the convenience of wireless connection and the voice quality of Skype into one portable device. The WSKP100 is intended to help users make Skype calls at home, workplace and campus without the hassle of turning on computers.
Yet, for many living in the inland empire’s capital city, the free service isn’t a bonus, it’s a burden. The new network adds even more sources of interference to the already crowded wireless spectrum. (PopWireless: Wired Magazine’s article on wi-fi over crowding and interference. Amateur Radio is affected by this as well since wi-fi channels 1 through 4 are allocated to the Amateur Service a fact I think the article missed. DIGG this. It’s an important topic.)
Netstumbler thinks that current 802.11N wifi products should be avoided since there is no guarantee the products will be backward compatible when the N standard is finally approved. Read the story at the original link for more information. Caveat emptor.
Click to Read this Fox News Story: A Michigan man was arrested and charged with a felony by local police after officers responded to a complaint of a strange man parked in front of a coffee shop every day for a week at lunch time. This article should be read by everyone that uses wireless Internet on a regular basis. Had this man gone in the coffee shop the owner would have allowed him to use the free Wi-Fi access. Local law enforcement made the decision to charge the man with a Michigan law that forbids illegal access to networks including free ones.
