Saturday, December 29, 2007

FON; Worth Watching!

FON has been named one of the "Top 10 Startups Worth Watching in 2008". We're sharing that space with some interesting company. Take a look and help us make 2008 a great year for Foneros!

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Saturday, December 15, 2007

New FON Community Tools Launched!

We've lauched our new community tools and redesigned our Maps

The new Maps allow you to send messages to Foneros anywhere in the world, search for bars, restaurants and other FON Spots in your favorite neighborhood, and personalize more of the information you wish to share with other Foneros. We've added filters to refine your searches and have significantly improved the download speed to make finding WiFi quicker and easier. Please give them a try and enjoy connecting (bad pun I know) with other Foneros!

The new and improved User Zone is now called now called “My FON". It's designed to give you access to the most popular FON features and make sharing WiFi a more interactive and community-based experience. Now you can use WiFi and your FON Spots to tell others about your neighbourhood and yourself, and learn about the best places to visit when on the go. I hope you enjoy communicating with and learning about other Foneros who are sharing bandwith too! To reach your My FON community tools simply log on at the top of our home page. From there you can check messange and manage your FON Spot.

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

iFON for the iPhone and iPod touch

If you're proud owner of an iPhone the FONLabs have an applet for you! It's available via AppTapp and allows you to automatically connect to FON Spots on the iPhone and iPod touch!

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Thursday, December 6, 2007

Travel Everywhere meets WiFi Everywhere

Find more than FON Spots everywhere when you travel with the help of the Everywhere travel magazine. Here at FON we not only love sharing with you news about FON, Foneros around the world, or fun WiFi widgets, but occasionally come across some other community powered idea that we get excited about and want to introduce you to. That's the case with 'Everywhere' magazine!

Everywhere is a new community-generated magazine for people who want to share stories about first-hand travel experiences. The heart of Everywhere is www.everywheremag.com, a site where anyone can submit and vote on their favorite places, photos and stories to be published in the magazine. The Everywhere community votes help decide what goes into each issue, and if your photo or story is published, you will receive $100 plus a free subscription to Everywhere magazine! The Everywhere community believes that travel is all around you - not just something you do once or twice a year - so members can submit photos and stories about places in their neighborhood, or from exotic vacations around the world. (Kind of reminds us of how we like WiFi around the world, but also next door.) So, next time you're taking your WiFi somewhere, check out www.everywheremag.com to find interesting new places, travel tips and more!

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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

HandyWi 1.0

The team at www.HandyWi.com have launched a new Wifi connector for Symbian S60, 3rd generation Nokia (E51, E60, E61, E61i, E65, E70, E90, N80, N81, N81, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95). Now it's easier then ever to connect to FON.
HandyWi features:
* Filtering of hotspots, separated view for public WLAN networks (FON/Zebra)
* HandyWi clearly shows which access point is secure and which is not
* Single internet access point (HandyWi APN) for all applications (mail, web browser, char etc.)
* Easy account management, several user accounts possible (scratch card, prepaid etc.)
* Access to the location based media information, loaded each time you connect (works on selected WLAN networks only)
* Automatic hotspot discovery and alert feature
* Automatic connection to the hotspot which has stronger signal
* Secure RSA encrypted communication with HandyWi server
* Automatic application startup after install and on boot