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UK Black Cabs to Get Free Wi-Fi

London’s famous black cabs are expected to provide free Wi-Fi to passengers. This will be possible thanks to technology provided by a TechCity startup. Passengers of the cab will be able to use the CabWifi service to gain access to 15 minutes of free Wi-Fi after they watch a 15 second ad.

Actually, startup firm Eyetease has been pushing the system in question for 2 years already, trying to offer broadband usage without racking up huge fees. This is especially important for tourists who are forced to pay huge money for data usage when being abroad. However, as Eyetease founder Richard Corbett pointed out, taxi drivers themselves have also seen data costs increasing.

In-Car Wi-Fi Predicted to Boom Soon

According to the industry experts, in-car Wi-Fi has to boom with the automotive industry getting to grip with the popularity of various mobile devices. In fact, car manufacturers have been equipping the vehicles with cutting edge technology for a while now, with more and more microchips emerging in cars.

 The recent research suggests that the number of chips sold to the automotive industry will grow at a much faster pace than the rest of the industry, and the entire market will reach $28 billion in 3 years. Taking into account that Google lives out its sci-fi fantasies of the driverless cars, the ordinary car is expected to differ very much over the coming decades.

Is Wi-Fi Bad for Health?

While wireless working is becoming an essential part of our daily life, the researchers say that there’s no evidence to suggest that Wi-Fi is bad for health. According to BBC program Panorama, radiation levels from Wi-Fi in one school is up to 3 times the level of mobile phone mast radiation.

Panorama visited some school with over 1,000 pupils, in order to compare the level of radiation from a typical mobile phone mast with that of the wireless. The results showed the height of Wi-Fi signal strength to be 3 times higher than the main beam of radiation intensity from a mobile phone mast. Medical physics