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Andrea Vascellari (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Episode: VMC #84 - Tim O’Reilly & Martin Varsavsky Web 2.0 Expo Berlin - Here’s a nice conversation between Tim O’Reilly and Martin Varsavsky (FON). I also managed to catch Simone’s question at the end. Enjoy it! Andrea Show notes & Credits: Web 2.0 Expo Berlin, Tim O’Reilly, FON, Martin Varsavsky, question by Simone Brunozzi
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Image via Wikipedia Thank you Steve Jobs. Thank you for the iPhone. Thank you for making laptops like the MacBook Air that only work with WiFi. Thank you because since we met and you told me how interested you were in WiFi us at Fon we keep getting calls from 3G operators who [...]
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Image via CrunchBase MobileCrunch reports about AT&T buying Wayport, a WiFi operator with around 3k hotspots in the US, for $275 Million. Fon has 300k Fonspots. We are 100 times larger and we grow a Wayport every week (although to be fair there is probably a 10 to 1 ratio in value of the their [...]
O'Reilly Radar (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Many of the keynote videos from last week's second Web 2.0 Expo Europe are available. The highlight for me was definitely Tim's conversation with Martin Varsavsky, the CEO of Fon. He discussed his path from Argentina to Spain, his handling of the credit crisis a year before Sequoia's warning and his philosphy as an entrepreneur. Other mainstage highlights included:...
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
In this video John Crispin from Fon shows how a Fonera can obtain WiFi from a 3G modem. If you are a developer and would like to write apps for the new Fonera 2.0 pls write to iurgi@fon.com. Share This
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
We’re growing really fast in Portugal, mostly thanks to the agreement FON reached with Zon, the biggest cable internet and TV provider in Portugal. October 18th became another landmark for FON, when we officially launched a WiFi density project in Campo de Ourique, a district in Lisbon with its own unique atmosphere. Without being too [...]
One Man & His Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Martin Varsavsky, a serial entrepreneur most recently with Fon, was challenged by Tim O'reilly to elaborate on a recent blog post when he criticised some of the doom and gloom coming out of silicon valley. His point, he reitereated, was not that people...
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
I keep getting asked where the Fonero event is tomorrow morning. It is at Cookie’s Cream Restaurant, Unter den Linden / Friedrichsstrasse (next to KPM) at 1030. At this event we will introduce the Fonera 2.0 which is a new Fon social WLAN or WiFi router that does many more things than allowing [...]
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
Next Tuesday at 10:30 I am hosting a Fonero brunch in Berlin. The purpose of this brunch is to brainstorm on how we can grow Fon in Germany so there´s more free WiFi available to Foneros. Until now UK and France have grown considerably more than Germany and it is my interest to [...]
El Fon Blog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Coming hot on the heels of Martin Varsavsky’s regretful announcement, that Fon Wifi will soon be doubled from $/€2 per day to $/€4 per day (he needs to visit fon.com more often. It’s actually $/€3 per day now), is this news that BT is cutting the price of wifi at their hotspots by as much [...]
open... (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
One of the blogs I really enjoy reading is that of Fon's founder, Martin Varsavsky. What I love about his writing is his candour: he clearly writes what he thinks, even if it's slightly painful for others - or himself. I've already noted this interesting comment: Fon has to provide special VPN tunneling technology in the UK for the UK secret services to investigate suspected criminals and terrorists...
iPhone4y.com (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Category: Utilities Released: Sep 21, 2008 Price: Free Description: FON is the largest WiFi community in the world. FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free. Now, how can you find FON WiFi spots ? Ok, here is a solution for your iPhone. 'FON Map' for iPhone is the best way to find nearby FON spots. It uses iPhone's GPS to determin your location and search FON spots out of FON WiFi...
The Edge of I-Hacked (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
from digininja.org Jasager is an implementation of Karma designed to run on OpenWrt on the Fon. It will probably run on most APs with Atheros wifi cards but it was designed with the Fon in mind as it is a nice small AP which gives it a lot of scope for use in pentration tests and [...]
Telecompaper (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
(Telecompaper) The FON user-generated Wi-Fi network has reached 1 million subscribers that are registered in Europe, Asia and America. The concept of FON is based on the idea that anybody with a broadband subscription can join FON by purchasing a FON router. The FON router, available at the FON website and in consumer electronics stores, enables FON members to share their internet connection with the...
El Fon Blog (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
I could have guessed this was coming on September 8th, when Fon’s English board moderator, David Garcia started using this graphic in his signature line. It seems that Fon Wireless, LTD., who forgot to observe their own second birthday, is celebrating the induction of their One Millionth Fonero, Wilkinson-Chan of Japan. Today, Fon CEO [...]
