BROWSING: McDonald's

AUSTIN, Texas-Wireless and wired broadband service provider Wayport Inc. said it has become the nation's largest Wi-Fi hot-spot provider with more than 6,300 locations available in the United States. The provider said it is adding up to 150 new hot-spot locations per week. Wayport...

ATLANTA-Highlighting its growing presence in the enterprise market, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has closed deals with more than 135 business and government customers in the first 45 days since its acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. was approved Oct. 26. The carrier noted...

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming partnership with Paris-based Meteor Networks that will add more than 400 Wi-Fi hot spots throughout part of France to Boingo's roaming network. Boingo said its network currently includes 11,000 Wi-Fi hot...

Wireless and wired neutral host broadband service provider Wayport Inc. said it has reached a preliminary agreement with Hertz Corp. to provide high-speed Internet access to Hertz customers at more than 50 airport locations across the country beginning early next year. Hertz and Wayport...

SAN FRANCISCO-Mobile-music provider Faith West Inc. will team with McDonald's to offer ring tones as prizes for the fast-food chain's Monopoly game.The ring tones will be available through a new online component of the game, available at playatmcd.com. Customers who land on Community Chest...

Fresh on the heels of Cometa Networks Inc. shutting down its Wi-Fi service because investors couldn't find a way to make money from it, Wi-Fi provider Wayport said it would start selling monthly subscriptions to partners offering Wi-Fi service at McDonald's. In addition, Wayport...

I was just out of college in 1993 when "Demolition Man" was released. Remember that movie? Set 40 years in the future, all personal freedoms had been removed in the interest of perfect order, and the world had become so passive that swearing was...

Wi-Fi, the much-hyped sibling of the wireless industry, might have lost a little of its luster with the closure of one of its more ambitious players and troublesome security warnings from governmental agencies.The once-hailed Wi-Fi company Cometa Networks Inc., originally backed by power players...

LONDON-British Telecommunications plc said it will expand its Wi-Fi network to 500 U.K. McDonald's restaurants during the next few months. Plans call for BT Openzone access points to be installed in McDonald's flagship and drive-through restaurants by the end of March.The deals takes the...

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-High-speed wireless Internet service provider Boingo Wireless Inc. announced its roaming system will include more than 2,600 hot-spot locations within the next three months. A new agreement with STSN Inc., which provides wired and wireless high-speed Internet access at hotels and conference...

Interest in Wi-Fi technology surged again last week as Sprint PCS announced it will begin offering a Wi-Fi solution later this summer that initially will provide its customers with access to high-speed Internet services in more than 800 locations across the country and plans...

TOKYO—Softbank and McDonald's Company (Japan) announced they will jointly launch wireless local area network (WLAN) services at McDonald's outlets. Starting in the latter half of May, they will launch an experimental service at 20 outlets in Tokyo.Users of the service will enjoy up to...

TOKYO-Wireless local area network (WLAN) service targeting the retail and travel industries is set to expand quickly in Japan. Some market watchers said that once the WLAN business takes off, it might be a rival for cellular phone service and may rob the cellular...

NEW YORK-Once upon a time in the United Kingdom, cellular service was so difficult to obtain that carrier marketing was unnecessary because each customer could resell his service connection to another consumer for $10,000 in the gray market, said Keith Mallinson, executive vice...

TORONTO-Mist Inc., which provides wireless technologies applications and other information management technologies, is conducting a test of its MIST Freedom II Wireless point-of-sale terminal with McDonald's Corp., in the Vivencia Restaurant franchise at the Stouffville, Ontario, location.The terminal is an interactive, portable wireless device...

As the calendar turned over from the '90s to the '00s, the wireless industry has seen a surge in companies targeting the wireless enterprise enablement space.While outsourced solution providers such as wireless application service providers have made a name for themselves earlier in the...

NEW YORK-At the suggestion of a franchise owner-operator, McDonald's Corp., Oak Brook, Ill., has decided to add wireless electronic payment to its menu at several restaurant drive-up windows in Southern California.The trial should be encouraging to wireless industry observers and participants who believe mobile...

When Congress passed Section 309(j) of the Communications Act and the government developed rules to implement this law, the goal was to increase diversity in telecommunications by providing opportunities for small businesses, women and minorities.Diversity in telecommunications is beneficial because it provides opportunities for...

BEIJING-Six wireless operators with 11 networks is the daunting choice offered to Hong Kong's techno-savvy consumers.The mobile phone scene here is a lot brighter than one would have expected just one-and-a-half years ago, with the territory's hand-over to the People's Republic of China on...

The storage area in my condo building has been vandalized and robbed twice during the past two weeks. The first time, kids from outside our complex but who have friends in our building were invited into the basement via a renter with a key....

Metawave Communications Corp. appointed Kathryn Surace-Smith general counsel for the company. She will provide legal support for Metawave's business development activities including customer contracts, licensing agreements, strategic partnerships and financial, operational and corporate matters. Previously, Surace-Smith was international counsel for Alcatel Telecom.Glenayre Technologies Inc....