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Boingo roams on FON network May 25, 2007


Boingo and FON seem to have come to an agreement whereby Boingo is allowed to use FON's WiFi network for their customers. This will add 130.000 hotspots to be used by their users. Boingo users pay $7.95 per month for unlimited access to hotspots worldwide with their Boingo Mobile Unlimited plan. It seems, though, this can only be used on mobile devices that support WiFi - not with laptop computers! 

 [via businesswire.com]

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Is FON your favorite webware? May 24, 2007

You can vote for FON to become your favorite webware. Fon has been chosen to be amongst the top 100 Webware finalists on Webware.com, an initiative by CNET. There are 10 categories with 25 candidates each, 10 of which will be choosen by you - the audience. You can vote for FON here.

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FON innovates tinyurl May 7, 2007

Probably because Martin Varsavsky and his team always need to send these awful long URLs (e.g. for FON maps) they used tinyurl a lot. But tinyurl comes up with rather hard to memorize abbreviations so FON's new approach fon.gs is to mesh up tagging with URL shortening. Only drawback: easy to remember tags are often used already and can therefore not be chosen. Well, there is an option to leave the tag input field blank and fon.gs creates a random link. Just as tinyurl… 

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