Google flips the switch on SSL encryption for Gmail

Google announced Wednesday that it will start encrypting all its Gmail traffic when using a remote wireless server.

This comes within days of Google’s announcement that it might pull its offices from China after discovering concerted attempts to break into Gmail accounts of human rights activists.

Wi-Fi Coming to Amtrak Acela Trains

You have some airlines that are already offering in-flight Wi-Fi access, but these new security measures could make air travel a little less appealing that it has been in the past. What if you want to take the train instead? Well, it seems that Amtrak is coming to your web-connected rescue.

Detecting Wi-Fi Hotspots with Your Head

So, you’ve invested in one of those shiny new netbook computers, but you’ve found that it can be a pain to find an available Wi-Fi hotspot. You could certainly leave the netbook on to search for signals, but that’s a battery drain that you simply cannot afford. Leave it up to the team at ThinkGeek [...]

Every Future Sprint Smartphone Will Have Wi-Fi

When it came to choosing my next smartphone, I had a few basic criteria in mind. I really wanted to keep a physical QWERTY keyboard, I wanted a relatively decent camera, and I absolutely had to have Wi-Fi. It seems that Sprint customers feel much the same way, because that CDMA carrier has made a [...]

Going Even Faster with Bluetooth 3.0 + High Speed (24Mbps)

In chatting with one of my friends online the other day, he decried the lack of wireless sync for his iPhone. I told him about Google Sync for contacts and calendar, but he was more interested in a wireless way to sync his iTunes library. I thought there might have been some sort of Bluetooth [...]