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• Copyright warning issued for public Wi-Fi network operators

  The Communications Alliance has released a guide for public Wi-Fi network operators which warns that operators could be subject to litigation by copyright holders if there is evidence network users have illegally downloaded material. The guide also highlights operators’ responsibilities to keep users secure.

• Big cable companies pooling Wi-Fi hotspot resources

  The big cable companies know that if they want to stay relevant in the wireless market, they can't do it on their own.

• 10 top reasons for integrating Wi-Fi radios in small cellular cells

  With the growing demand for mobile data, cellular service operators are increasingly turning to small cells -- picocells, microcells, metrocells and femtocells -- to deal with the capacity crunch in dense urban areas and to add coverage in areas with low or zero cellular signal levels, such as indoors and in remote rural locations.

• Wi-Fi Alliance's Passpoint program on track for June certifications

  NEW ORLEANS -- The Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint Program, which aims to make Wi-Fi hotspots work more like cellular and LTE networks, is on track to start issuing certifications this summer.

• Intel buys $75 million worth of patents from Aware Inc.

  Aware Inc., a Massachusetts-based DSL signal processing specialist, announced this morning that it had agreed to sell $75 million in Wi-Fi, LTE and wireless home networking patents to semiconductor giant Intel.

• How to hack your own Wi-Fi network

  Attempting to "hack" into your own wireless network can help you spot potential Wi-Fi security vulnerabilities and figure out ways to protect against them.

• Rush Limbaugh, Siri, and the wrath of the technocrati

  On his Tuesday radio broadcast, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh described a technical problem with his iPhone and Apple's Siri voice assistant, encountered on his drive to work that morning.

• Some new devices to mess around with Wi-Fi

  The scoop: iZON Remote Room Monitor, by Stem Innovation, about $130

• Xirrus unveils rugged Wi-Fi 'super access point'

  WLAN vendor Xirrus announced its first outdoor Wi-Fi products, a hardened access point and two sealed enclosures that can encase its indoor product line.

• At 100 years old, Fenway Park brims with new technology

  Fenway Park may be 100 years old this season but that doesn't mean the Boston Red Sox baseball stadium is stuck with antiquated technology.

• Cisco Linksys routers bring the cloud home

  Cisco has rolled out a new line of home Wi-Fi routers that embed application intelligence for managing devices connected to the home network.

• Wi-Fi complaints prompt Apple to replace some 3rd-gen iPads

  Apple is replacing third-generation iPads whose users report Wi-Fi connectivity problems, apparently as part of a full-scale investigation of this problem, according to the 9to5Mac Website.

• IETF attendees reengineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network

  What happens when a bunch of IETF super nerds show up in Paris for a major conference and discover their hotel's Wi-Fi network has imploded?

• Linksys Powerline connections: Wired without wires

  Last week here in Gearhead I discussed my ongoing saga of trying to get decent IP DSL service from AT&T U-Verse.

• Apple's Bonjour protocol tamed, managed for enterprise Wi-Fi

  How can iPads and iPhones discover and use projectors, Apple TVs, printers and the like without flooding the enterprise Wi-Fi network with multicast discovery messages? Aruba Networks says it has a way.