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Wiki about wireless connectivity and how it is changing.

Wiki from first project about wireless connectivity. Excellent work from 2006 project.

Breaking news for wireless_connectivity

This story explains how Pinterest is being used by municipalities to apprehend criminals.

Wireless technology has evolved. At first, the goal was to expedite the communications between humans. Now, however, the new wave  of wireless technology focuses on machine-to-machine(M2M) interactions. "The M2M phenomenon is part of the larger drive to create an "Internet of Things" - a global network that not only links computers, tablets and phones but that connects everything from bikes to washing machines to thermostats. Machina Research, a British firm, believes there will be 12.5 billion "smart" connected devices, excluding  phones, PCs and tablets, in the world in 2020, up from 1.3 billion today."

North Korea has allowed a major telecommunications company to expand a 3G network into North Korea to allow mobile internet to foreign travels. North Korean citizens, however, are still prohibited from using the Internet.

"New York City Now Blanketed in Even More Free Wi-Fi"

Commotion Wireless offers a new interface for wireless connectivity that does not require and Internet Service Provider(ISP). This is useful to circumnavigate Internet restrictions and to enable mobile phones a greater degree of freedom. To work this technology only requires to WiFi capable devices. Thus, this technology can be readily used by a population that does not possess access to the Internet to share files, media, and other documents to collaborate.

Mobile technology in a learning environment - FCP "Mobile and Ubiquitous"

This site has a selection of papers from the 2010 IEEE 6th International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE)