{"id":188602,"date":"2016-11-22T16:20:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=188602"},"modified":"2016-11-22T16:22:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:22:10","slug":"facebook-testing-public-wi-fi-locator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/188602-facebook-testing-public-wi-fi-locator.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook testing public Wi-Fi locator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has started testing a &#8220;public Wi-Fi locator&#8221; feature on its mobile app for iOS.<\/p>\n<p>As report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/11\/22\/facebook-testing-public-wifi\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>, the feature allows users to turn on &#8220;Find Wi-Fi&#8221; in the app&#8217;s menu &#8211; which then identifies nearby open hotspots.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook will automatically detect places with free connectivity, listing the location, the hours it is open, and the name of the SSID.<\/p>\n<p>The social network said the move is aimed at ensuring users can stay connected and follows it launching data-intensive features like live video streaming.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/188138-call-zuma-corrupt-on-facebook-and-youre-fired.html\">Call Zuma corrupt on Facebook and you\u2019re fired<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has started testing a &#8220;public Wi-Fi locator&#8221; feature on its mobile app for iOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,161,39904],"class_list":["post-188602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-public-wi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188606,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188602\/revisions\/188606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}