Has public Wi-Fi outlived its usefulness?

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Network World Mobile & Wireless Alert May 02, 2016 Has public Wi-Fi outlived its usefulness? Good experiences are increasingly rare and LTE is a better option for many. So why bother with Wi-Fi? Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • School district repurposes buses as Wi-Fi hotspots • iPhone 7 may immediately be followed by the iPhone 8 • 10 Android apps developers will love • How Verizon finds IoT innovation outside its four walls • Samsung's Tizen 3.0 to take on Android and iOS starting in September • "The Good Wife" TV show could teach you a few things about modern technology • WiGig reaches for 60GHz • Intel ready to exit smartphone and tablet markets • Coming soon: The Internet of Pee-Powered Things White Paper: IBM Corporation Developing a Data Integration and Lifecycle Management Stratagy for a Hybrid Environment Cloud-based data presents a wealth of potential information for organizations seeking to build and maintain competitive advantage in their industries. Read More ▶ School district repurposes buses as Wi-Fi hotspots Eight school buses have so far been turned into mobile hotspots. They are driven to the poorest neighborhoods and parked overnight to provide internet access. Read More ▶ iPhone 7 may immediately be followed by the iPhone 8 Apple's iPhone 7 may not have an iPhone 7s successor Read More ▶ 10 Android apps developers will love From full-blown IDEs to essential resource utilities, these Android apps bring powerful programming features to smartphones and tablets Read More ▶ How Verizon finds IoT innovation outside its four walls Verizon Ventures says that while consumer Internet of Things startups were all the rage in 2014 and continue to be popular among investors, enterprise IoT newcomers have become even hotter properties among venture capitalists over the past two years, with enterprise IoT investment expected to double or triple that of consumer IoT in 2016. Read More ▶ Samsung's Tizen 3.0 to take on Android and iOS starting in September Many alternative mobile operating systems like Firefox have fallen by the wayside while Android and iOS continue to dominate, but Samsung's Tizen has survived. Read More ▶ "The Good Wife" TV show could teach you a few things about modern technology The CBS legal and political drama The Good Wife ends its 7-season run on May 8, and if you're not a regular viewer of the show it might surprise you to learn how clever the writers are at coming up with plots ripped from the day's top technology news headlines. Read More ▶ WiGig reaches for 60GHz The Wi-Fi Alliance's WiGig certification should be launched by the end of 2016, and indeed some products are already available. Whether it succeeds is the question. Read More ▶ Intel ready to exit smartphone and tablet markets Intel could be on the verge of exiting the market for smartphones and standalone tablets, wasting billions it spent trying to expand in those markets. Read More ▶ Coming soon: The Internet of Pee-Powered Things Researchers at the University of Bath have revealed a breakthrough -- cheekily dubbed "pee power" -- involving the use of urine to power electronic devices in remote locations. Read More ▶ White Paper: IBM Corporation Developing a Data Integration and Lifecycle Management Stratagy for a Hybrid Environment Cloud-based data presents a wealth of potential information for organizations seeking to build and maintain competitive advantage in their industries. Read More ▶ Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ SLIDESHOWS Send in the Microsoft Surface clones 10 whaling emails that could get by an unsuspecting CEO Read More ▶ Most-Read Stories 1. Meet the man behind Ubuntu MATE 2. Nvidia GPU-powered autonomous car teaches itself to see and steer 3. 19 free cloud storage options 4. I am the reason for Apple's falling iPhone sales 5. Man who hijacked HBO's satellite signal 30 years ago would face far different fate today 6. VMware cloud boss to leave 7. 7 free tools every network needs 8. OpenStack then and now 9. 7 free Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying tools for Windows and Mac 10. Almost two-thirds of software companies contributing to open source

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