There’s a particular image Sheri Parks recalls from researching what residents in Baltimore’s low-income neighborhoods want from smart cities technology: children, crowded around school buildings after dismissal, with cellphones out, doing homework because of limited access to fast, reliable Wi-Fi at home or in their neighborhood.

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The Federal Communications Commission plans to fine the Baltimore Convention Center’s Wi-Fi provider $718,000 for allegedly blocking personal Wi-Fi hotspots at the venue for a 26-day period last year, a charge the company disputes. Virginia-based M.C. Dean Inc., an electrical design-build ...

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(Bloomberg) Marriott International Inc., the Bethesda-based hotel company, was fined $600,000 by the Federal Communications Commission for blocking hotel customers from connecting to the Internet on personal Wi-Fi networks in order to force them to pay for the hotel’s networks. ...

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Residents and visitors will have access to free Internet along the Inner Harbor Promenade.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google will pay a $7 million fine to settle a multistate investigation into the Internet search leader’s interception of emails, passwords and other sensitive information sent several years ago over unprotected wireless neighborhoods scattered throughout the world. ...

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LINTHICUM — Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is now offering free wireless Internet service to all travelers. The free Wi-Fi launched Wednesday. Those who use the complimentary Wi-Fi will have to watch an advertisement before their 45-minute session. Travelers can ...

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BETHANY BEACH, Del. — Visitors to Bethany Beach this summer will be able to enjoy free Wi-Fi access in the boardwalk area and on the beach. Town Manager Cliff Graviet tells The Daily Times of Salisbury that Bethany Beach hopes ...

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NEW YORK — It’s like the ’90s never left: Billy Crystal hosted the Oscars. Internet IPOs are back. And NetZero is returning with free Internet service —only this time it’s wireless. United Online Inc. announced Monday that it will offer ...

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As Jen posted Tuesday, the Supreme Court has ruled the government’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a “search.” The five-justice majority notably left out ...

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After telling us what was hot at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and giving us a peek at the future of smart TVs, Frank Gorman and Julie Harada of Gorman & Williams now present their Top 10 ...

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