Already enabling Internet access on more flights than any other service in the world, Aircell today announced it has installed Gogo® Inflight Internet on its 1,000th aircraft.  The Delta Air Lines DC-9 will make its connected flight today from Detroit. To celebrate the occasion, passengers will be greeted by Gogo brand ambassadors, and treated to complimentary Gogo Internet access on board.  Today’s 1,000th equipped aircraft caps a busy month for Aircell, in which it wired numerous Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, and Alaska Airlines planes. Gogo Inflight Internet is now available on more than 3,800 flights daily, up from just 2,100 at this time last year.  Roughly one-third of all mainline domestic aircraft now offer Gogo’s Inflight Internet service.

Gaiacom Wireless Networks HSG series paired with high-performance Gaiacom Wireless Networks Access Points creates a robust wireless networking solution. In addition to 802.1Q VLAN tagging, 802.1X encryption standards, multiple ESSIDS, QoS bandwidth management, and Layer 2 isolation, Gaiacom Wireless Networks Access Points boast unique, proprietary features: Layer 2 Firewall, STP standard for mesh networking, IAPP high-speed roaming, AP load balancing, rogue AP detection, and much more.

Sprint is starting to ship 3G-capable femtocells, but only to qualified customers. Like the previous 2G Airave, the Airave Access Point acts as a mini cell tower using your home or office broadband connection to help boost voice and data coverage. The primary difference between the two is that the Airave Access Point supports EV-DO while the older Airave only supports up to CDMA 1x.

The Audi A8 will feature the Mobile Media Interface Plus in-car navigation system, which will act as a mobile “hotspot”, enabling passengers to connect Wi-Fi enabled devices to the internet. The sat-nav also has Google Earth built in to it, providing driers with high-resolution, three-dimensional satellite imagery. Audi said that the system, when combined with a street atlas and other online content, can provide real-time route planning, location-specific points of interest or local restaurant reviews, as well as up-to-the-minute traffic information.

Mayor Boris Johnson first said that he wanted London to become “a wi-fi city”, where the internet was available anywhere, in September 2008. “Let’s do it, beginning in Stratford in this fantastic area of opportunity,” referring to the location of the main 2012 Olympic site. During Google’s Zeitgeist event in Hertfordshire, held on Tuesday, Boris Johnson once again pledged that the capital would become one huge wi-fi hotspot. He told 400 business leaders: “Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the internet, was born in London, so we claim paternity of the internet. ”London is the home of technological innovation. We in City Hall are doing our best to keep up, and one of our most important projects is called wi-fi London.” The mayor explained how street furniture, such as lamp posts and bus stops, could be wi-fi enabled using existing cabling.

Wireless hotspots are spreading across the world’s cities, with blanket wi-fi zones now being rolled out in many city centres. Operators are providing wireless surfing at the touch of a button from the park, the bus or the street corner. So what does the wireless future have to offer?

Users of the new city-wide wi-fi networks will be required to pay access charges to an account provider, such as BT Openzone or T-Mobile. The revenues will be shared between the owners of the street furniture on which the equipment is installed (usually local councils), wi-fi hotspot suppliers and the internet service providers.

Devicescape SoftGPS is a software-driven positioning service for devices and location-aware applications. SoftGPS uses Devicescape’s global, high quality database of Wi-Fi access points in order to provide location in a uniquely cost effective manner. Want to try out SoftGPS? Get an evaluation version here. With Devicescape SoftGPS, users can rapidly determine their approximate geolocation without the use of a GPS or cellular chipset, making SoftGPS especially suitable for Wi-Fi only devices such as netbooks. If the device already contains a GPS by reducing power consumption by reducing the need to turn on the GPS or cellular radio to determine a location.

World radio enthusiasts used to have to buy expensive communications receivers and antennas and put up with patchy shortwave reception. This has all changed with the development of internet radio. Now world radio is available to everyone. Internet radio brings you radio stations worldwide, easily accessible over GPRS, WLAN or 3G. Using the Station Directory you can search for stations by name, genre, language or location. If you’re looking for radio inspiration you can browse ‘Top Stations’ to find out what everybody else is listening to. Variable download rates offer a quality listening experience. What is even greater about this is that you can listen to it even without your computer.

Mobile operators are adding WiFi hot-spot locations to their networks. The hot-spots are designed to offload network traffic from the company’s 3G network and boost performance for customers. WiFi hot-spots are being lit up on a daily basis and mobile operators are giving their customers access to them. This is prompted by the proliferation of smart phones, ipads and other wireless devices.

The telecom behemoth is also gigantic in giving away Wi-Fi to customers: AT&T’s quarterly report on Wi-Fi usage finds the firm serving 121m sessions in the first six months of 2010; that compares to 86m sessions in all of 2009. Second quarter 2010 saw 68m sessions used, compared with 15m in the year-ago second quarter. Second quarter was also a 30-percent increase over first quarter.