Amtrak has some great news for travelers in the northeast: free wi-fi. No longer reserved for Acela cars, the service will be offered on twelve east coast routes, including the Northeast Regional line, which shuttles passengers from Virginia to Boston. READ MORE
Google is tweaking a practice that has drawn the ire of wi-fi providers, consumers, and international governments: It will now let wi-fi providers opt out of providing location data to Google services. The plan applies worldwide. The company has received much criticism both in the U.S. and overseas for what some call “aggressive” data gathering. READ MORE
First-class travelers on American Airlines now have yet another reason to feel even more special. According to Mashable’s Todd Wasserman, the airline is selectively scrapping its current entertainment system and replacing it with the Wi-Fi-enabled tablets. Currently offered on certain coast-to-coast flights, the tablet will soon be offered on some international flights to and from Europe and South America. READ MORE
For the first time, Cisco released a report that explicitly breaks down Wi-Fi traffic, both where it’s been, and where it’s going. According to the “global IP traffic forecast,” Wi-Fi devices will overtake wired devices in bandwidth usage for the first time in 2015. Wi-Fi will take up about 46 percent of all Internet traffic by that time. READ MORE
