Best Buy Offers Boingo App.

Boingo Wireless, a provider of software and services, announced that Best Buy, a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services, has added Boingo Wi-Fi to PC App, Best Buy's online software shop for Windows-based computers.

"By including Boingo Wi-Fi in PC App, Best Buy is giving customers convenient access to high-speed Internet at thousands of airports, hotels, restaurants and cafes globally," said Colby Goff, senior vice president of strategy and business development for Boingo Wireless, in a release.

"Best Buy recognizes the great user experience we've created by stitching together hundreds of Wi-FI networks into a single, seamless offering that is easily accessible with a single click from the Boingo Wi-Fi app and sees the value in presenting that to their customers," said Jim Hamm, director of account management for Boingo Wireless.

Best Buy PC App is preinstalled on select laptops and netbooks, and is available for download on PCs running Windows 7, Vista or XP.

After installing Boingo from the Best Buy PC App, customers can choose from a variety of Wi-Fi access offerings.

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-AIDS Healthcare Foundation Kicks Off Ad Campaign to Counter Gilead Drug Claim

AIDS Healthcare Foundation unveiled a new national advertising campaign headlined, There Is No Magic Pill, an advocacy and awareness campaign to educate and prompt discussion among gay men and others regarding Gilead Sciences and its likely plans to seek Food and Drug Administration approval for use of its AIDS drug Truvada as a form a pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV transmission.

"First and foremost, Truvada lacks effectiveness in preventing the transmission of HIV. A rate of 44 percent preventive effectiveness is much too low to merit FDA approval. If we were talking about protecting the general population with a treatment that was only 44 percent effective, would we be celebrating?" said AHF President Michael Weinstein, in a release. "Secondly, at this time, real-world information is lacking. The participants who received a benefit from Truvada took-or were instructed to take-the drug daily, were intensively counseled monthly and were tested frequently for sexual infections. This is in no way representative of the real world."

AHF's ads will run in a dozen gay media outlets nationwide, including Frontiers Newsmagazine (Los Angeles), South Florida Gay News (Miami), Windy City Times (Chicago), The Washington Blade (D.C.), Bay Area Reporter (SF), Echo Magazine (Phoenix), Out Front (Denver), GA Voice (Atlanta), Gay City News (NY), OutSmart (Houston), Dallas Voice and Seattle Gay News.

"I am deeply concerned about the possibility of increased risk that could come with the use of Truvada as PrEP. How likely are uninfected men to take pills every day for the rest of their lives to prevent a possible HIV infection?" said Homayoon Khanlou, AHF's Chief of Medicine/U.S. "The consequences of patients who take Truvada haphazardly are that they will become infected, develop drug resistance, and spread drug-resistant virus to others. This is a very serious matter that could significantly set back efforts to fight the epidemic."

AHF supports continued research on HIV prevention, but opposes quick fixes that run the risk of contributing to the spread of HIV and drug-resistant viruses.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation is an AIDS organization, currently provides medical care and services to individuals in 26 countries.

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