Air-bound travelers this holiday season will find that they don’t have to worry about being disconnected from the Internet, even for a few hours, reports ReadWriteWeb. The Google Chrome browser team has joined with three airlines to offer free in-flight Wi-Fi on more than 700 planes for approximately 15 million passengers this holiday season. This is the second year in a row that Google has offered free Wi-Fi, with the program expanding this year to three airlines – AirTran, Delta and Virgin America. According to the Free Holiday Wi-Fi website, the deal will last from Nov. 20, 2010 through Jan. 2, 2011. To connect, simply search for the Gogo Inflight network and connect your device…
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Google ‘mortified’ over Wi-Fi data gathering
Google on Friday confirmed that its Street View cars had inadvertently captured e-mail messages and passwords during their image gathering missions, the result of WiFi sniffing software that was included in Street View cars without authorization, reports InformationWeek. The acknowledgment comes after data protection authorities in Canada and Spain said as much following the conclusion of investigations into Google’s WiFi data gathering in those countries. Google VP of engineering and research Alan Eustace, who first disclosed the company’s WiFi data gathering in May, apologized again and promised changes to prevent similar incidents in the future…
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