Fon used to be all about internet access. Now, the company is connecting home stereo systems and businesses alike. Hear what’s next for Fon at Structure Connect.…
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Fon’s Gramofon music router ends successful Kickstarter campaign with $315,000
Gramofon, the router that doubles as a cloud music adapter for your stereo system, just successfully ended its Kickstarter campaign.…
Read MoreFon officially introduces its social music router Gramofon, sells it for $30 through Kickstarter
Gramofon wants to connect your home stereo system to Spotify, much like many other connected speaker and home audio players. The unique twist? It will also offer shared Wi-fi.…
Read MoreThis is Gramofon: Fon’s social music router revealed
Crowdsourced Wifi network operator Fon is getting ready to launch a new product called Gramofon, and we were able to dig up some photos as well as other details ahead of its official launch.…
Read MoreFon breaks into the U.S. with AT&T Wi-Fi roaming deal
The Spanish Wi-Fi sharing community has scored what it suggests will be the first of multiple carrier deals in the U.S., giving its members access to AT&T's 30,000 hotspots around the country.…
Read MoreWi-Fi-sharing community Fon gets French coverage boost thanks to new SFR deal
SFR is already a long-time partner of the global Wi-Fi community Fon, but it previously let its customers share their connections on an opt-in basis. That's now been changed to an opt-out agreement.…
Read MoreSkype originally wanted to be like Fon, but had to solve VoIP first
Skype's founding team originally set out to build a crowdsourced Wi-Fi network, much like the one operated by Fon. Only, it didn't have an adequate VoIP solution for that network.…
Read MoreFon scores a big one: crowdsourced Wi-Fi community signs DT for millions of hotspots
The Wi-Fi-sharing community will gain a big boost through a tie-in with Deutsche Telekom's operations in Germany and eastern Europe, while DT hopes the deal will take some of the strain off its mobile broadband networks.…
Read MoreDeutsche Telekom flirts with crowdsourced Wi-Fi through Croatian Fon deal
It doesn't necessarily confirm those rumours about the T-Mobile owner buying a stake in Fon, but a tie-in with the service by DT subsidiary Hrvatski Telekom does keep the possibility alive.…
Read MoreThe Difference a Device Makes: How the iPhone Saved Fon
Fon was once a company on the verge of bankruptcy with an unsustainable business model, a new era of mobile computing ushered in by Apple's iPhone and the devices that would follow have completely turned its fortunes around. How? By jump-starting the demand for Wi-Fi everywhere.…
Read MoreFon Makes Entire Wi-Fi Network Free In Japan
People of Japan are using their smartphones during the earthquake and tsunami tragedies to share news and pictures but with damaged infrastructure, the cellular networks are struggling. To keep information flowing, Madrid-based Fon quickly acted to open up one million free Wi-Fi hotspots.…
Read MoreThe Strange Tale of Wi-Fi Startup Whisher
Back in 2006, when Wi-Fi was all the rage, we saw many startups paint a future in which we’d be able to…
Read MoreSprint, Cogent Reconnect Networks For Now
Sprint (s FON) and Cogent networks are back talking to each other -- at least temporarily. After the two companies severed networks on October 30, there has been wide spread criticism of the severing of the networks.…
Read MoreCoping with FON-liness
FON showed great promise, attacking the fragmented wifi hotspot market and placing pressure on 3G broadband providers by harnessing the energy of the very people that would benefit from its service. The promise of a disruptive user-owned global wifi network was a large part of the company's marketing, playing on the iconography and language of revolution. With $22m in funding from Google, Skype and venture capitalists, the company seemed poised for success...so what went wrong?…
Read MoreMaking Sense of Mobile Broadband Options
For people who work on the web, getting access to the Internet is vital. If we can’t connect to our colleagues and…
Read MoreWhisher Adds a Symbian App
Updated: Whisher has sent this special offer to our readers. They are giving away WiFi Out credit to GigaOM readers, and you…
Read MoreFon Raises $9.5 Million For Russia Launch, Making Big Losses
WiFi-sharing community Fon has raised a $9.5 million third round of funding to take the service to Russia and upgrade its product offering.……
Read MoreSprint Writes Down Nextel, Posts $29.5 Billion Loss
If you thought eBay taking a hefty writedown for its mistake — I mean Skype was shocking — then Sprint’s Nextel deal…
Read MoreCellular Biz & Its $99 Problem
I’ve been watching the mobile industry commit hara-kari over the past few days. US Cellular is the latest to join this mad…
Read MoreP2P voice on the PSP: Skype arrives
Did you pick up one of the slimmer and lighter Sony PlayStationPortables, aka: the PSP-2000? If you did, there’s a present for…
Read MoreSling-ing in the (money) rain
Exclusive: Connected Home has become one of the main themes of investment for venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. And the hottest deal…
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