Nintendo Gives Hot Spots

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[GadgetSpy] The hotspots will be in locations such as toy stores and department stores, enabling retailers to demo WiFi games. Nintendo also plans to roll out hotspots in other markets as well, though no timetable has been set.

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[Computer Alchemy] Nintendo to set up WiFi hotspots for DS users: Nintendo plans to set up as many as 1,000 WiFi hotspots in Japan, to encourage users of the DS to play games viaWiFi. The hotspots will be in locations such as toy stores and department stores, enabling retailers to demo WiFigames. Nintendo also plans to roll out hotspots in other markets as well, though no timetable has been set. No word onwhether the hotspots will require any kind of authentication to keep non-DS users out, but it’s a safe bet that if yousee groups of laptop-wielding salarymen squatting on the floor in Hakuhinkan’s game department, the network is wideopen.

[Engadget - www.engadget.com] Nintendo to set up WiFi hotspots for DS users >: Nintendo plans to set up as many as 1,000 WiFi hotspots in Japan, to encourage users of the DS to play games via WiFi. The hotspots will be in locations such as toy stores and department stores, enabling retailers to demo WiFi games. Nintendo also plans to roll out hotspots in other markets as well, though no timetable has been set. No word on whether the hotspots will require any kind of authentication to keep non-DS users out, but it’s a safe bet that if you see groups of laptop-wielding salarymen squatting on the floor in Hakuhinkan’s game department, the network is wide open.

[Wireless - wireless.engadget.com] Nintendo to set up WiFi hotspots for DS users >: Nintendo plans to set up as many as 1,000 WiFi hotspots in Japan, to encourage users of the DS to play games via WiFi. The hotspots will be in locations such as toy stores and department stores, enabling retailers to demo WiFi games. Nintendo also plans to roll out hotspots in other markets as well, though no timetable has been set. No word on whether the hotspots will require any kind of authentication to keep non-DS users out, but it’s a safe bet that if you see groups of laptop-wielding salarymen squatting on the floor in Hakuhinkan’s game department, the network is wide open.

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[Joystiq.com] Gamespy and Nintendo sitting in a tree WIRELESSLY - Joystiq - www ...: It's kind of beside the point, in that the only hotspots that either the ds or the psp will work with are the free ones right. It doesn't have any engine to render the page where you put in your credit card number, so all of those tmobile/starbucks hotspots wouldn't work anyway. The only way that you would be able to connect with either of these devices would be to a free hotspot with no security enabled or anything (like that which is available in the lobbies of some hotels). Kinda limited, isn't it, correct me if I am wrong.

[Joystiq.com] IGN insists that the Nintendo DS is going online - Joystiq - www ...: I just don't know. The WiFi in the DS is not entirely 802.11 compatible. They use all kinds of short preamble and karlnet style frame packing. If you look at what the various tunneler's are having to do to get any kind of tunnelling working, it casts serious doubt that the DS could just magically become wholly 802.11 friendly so that it could go online with any off-the-shelf consumer hardware.

[Wireless.engadget.com] PlaceSite connects visitors to WiFi hotspots - Wireless - wireless ...: Looks like the WiFi MoSoSo space is starting to get crowded. Another entrant is Project Placesite (currently being tested at A’Cuppa Tea café in Berkeley), which limits its reach to your current hotspot. The idea is that you can log in and find out a little more about the people who are in the room with you.

[Wireless.engadget.com] SBC WiFi hotspots to extend Cingular coverage area by 2006 ...: Not that we’re seeing an abundance of handsets out now with WiFi (or without crippled WiFi VoIP, in some cases), but last week SBC also announced the new holy grail of wireless telephony: by the end of 2005 they will have implemented equipment to extend the Cingular coverage area via WiFi hotspots (probably with that WiMax backhaul), and they will have a business cellular/WiFi voice plans to go along with it. Wishful thinking? Well, we’ll just say that we’ll believe it when we see it.

[Wimax.weblogsinc.com] New Hotspots Debut in Vegas, SF - The WiMAX Weblog - wimax ...: The commercial segment of the Castro section of San Francisco now has free WiFi service thanks to AnchorFree Wireless which coincides with hotspots located in the city’s Marina District. In Las Vegas, NextWeb has launched a pre-WiMax network available to 35,000 businesses in the metropolitan area with subscription rates beginning at $159 a month for up to 3 Mbps.

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Posted at June 08, 2005 05:56 PM