3 major search engines are offering Free Wifi for you ! Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are sponsoring free Wi-Fi hotspots in airports, hotels and even Time Square just in time for holiday travel and their attempt to win over new customers. This is an interesting move on their part but think about it if they give you free wifi chances are you are going to use a search engine so them will get some benefit from this ! Google, Bing and Yahoo are all offering WiFi promotions, all different, that run through the end of the year or early next year.
Google today announced that it is working with airports across the country as well as Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group, Airport Marketing Income and others to provide free Wi-Fi as a holiday gift now through January 15, 2010. You will be asked to change your default search engine to Google and try the their Chrome browser. The gift currently includes 47 airports, including Las Vegas, San Jose, Boston, Baltimore, Burbank, Houston, Indianapolis, Seattle, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, St. Louis and Charlotte. Additionally, as a result of this project, Burbank and Seattle airports will begin offering airport-wide free Wi-Fi indefinitely,” says the press release.
Once you log on to networks in any of the participating airports, travelers will have the option make a donation to Engineers Without Borders, the One Economy Corporation or the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Google will match the donations made across all the networks up to $250,000, and the airport network that generates the highest amount per passenger by January 1, 2010 will receive $15,000 to donate to the local nonprofit of their choice.
Back in October Google and Virgin America announced an exclusive partnership with Google to provide free WiFi on all Virgin America flights. From Nov. 10, 2009-Jan. 15, 2010, guests on all Virgin America flights will be able to check email, gift shop online, stay in touch with family and friends via social media, or just go wherever the web takes them – all for free.
WiFi Promo for Microsoft: Microsoft has teamed up with mobile access provider JiWire to allow free Wi-Fi at a broad range of airports and hotels across the nation. It lets consumers gain free WiFi Internet access at participating hot spots in exchange for one search on the engine Bing. All you have to do in order to log on is make one search on Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
EBay Promo: EBay is providing Free WiFi through Gogo for 7 days during the Thanksgiving holiday. On more than 250 domestic Delta Airline flights during the busiest travel week of the year on domestic flights on Delta airlines during the Thanksgiving travel rush of November 24-30, 2009 your wi-fi is free. Passengers will be given a promotional code that will take them directly to eBay’s holiday home page. EBay is hoping it will help travelers to complete their holiday shopping while on board.
Yahoo Wi-Fi Promo: Times Square Alliance and Yahoo have partnered to bring Free Wi-Fi to Times Square starting November 10th. Whether you’re a Times Square resident, a neighborhood employee, a die-hard New Yorker or one of the neighborhood’s millions of annual visitors, you can access the web for free during your next visit to Times Square — through a new portal that offers the latest information about Times Square events and businesses, as well as news from around the world and local weather. Wi-fi is available along the Broadway Plaza between 42nd and 44th Streets and 46th and 47th Streets, including Duffy Square. Yahoo will be providing free wireless access at Times Square in New York City, for an entire year.)
Free Wifi for 3 Airlines: Also while searching I found Free Wi-Fi On 3 Major U.S. Airlines Now Thru December 31, 2009. Special trial one time use savings coupon code for anyone flying now thru December 31, 2009. This is a special promotion from gogoinflight.com and only work for new accounts. Here is a list that codes that may work for each airlines: Delta – DELTATRYGOGO Airtran – AIRTRANTRYGOGO American – AATRYGOGO
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