Devicescape Software has announced that its industry leading Devicescape Wi-Fi
auto-connect software is now available for use on the Apple (
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With Devicescape users can connect to fast and inexpensive Wi-Fi networks and public hotspots at café’s, universities, other muni networks, and more.
Devicescape works on both the 1.0.x and the 1.1.1 firmware releases for the iPhone (
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Dave Fraser, CEO of Devicescape, said in a press release, “The iPhone and the iPod Touch are industry-changing Wi-Fi devices designed for rich media and internet services. Devicescape makes connecting the iPhone to high bandwidth Wi-Fi networks even easier, allowing owners to more readily enjoy these services including e-mail, music downloads and watching video. Today, the iPhone is the most popular device utilizing our breakthrough Wi-Fi solution.”
Earlier, one had to open a browser in ones iPhone or iPod Touch to enter user names and passwords. With Devicescape, user name and password are entered just once and stored on a secure server so users can quickly connect to any supported network within range with the help of Devicescape.
Devicescape also supports Mac OSX, PCs with Windows XP and Vista, Windows Mobile 5 & 6 Smartphones, Nokia (
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www.devicescape.com/download.
Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
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