Coaster route gets security-Fi network: A 10-mile stretch of a 42-mile Southern California railway gets Wi-Fi for security purposes. Datel built the system with Strix gear. They’re claiming 17 to 20 Mbps of bandwidth along the route.Aberdeen, Scotland, becomes a Wi-Fi city: The city council will pay for a wireless network to span the town. CCTV (surveillance cameras) and traffic lights will be among the civic applications run over the network, as well as public access. There’s interest in remote health monitoring …

The San Francisco controller’s office sees substantial cost savings to residents with EarthLink network: The office, which the SF Chronicle says acts as an auditing arm, sees $9m to $18m in yearly savings for residents due to the option of choosing EarthLink over other broadband services. One supervisor noted that a city-owned system would provide even greater benefits, however. EarthLink won approval this week for access to light poles, one of the last hurdles in moving forward.

Salling Clicker lets a phone be used to control a computer: The software started as a Mac-only product that worked with Bluetooth to handle presentation advances and a few other limited options. The product has gradually become richer and richer, and long ago added Windows support. The latest release extends Wi-Fi support for smartphones that include Wi-Fi, and uses auto-discovery with Symbian and Windows Mobile 3.5 to allow computers to find all Salling Clicker-enabled phones.

DAZ Software releases Wi-Fi Login Pro, an inexpensive WPA/WPA2 Enterprise server: The enterprise flavor of WPA/WPA2 requires each user who wants to gain access to the network to have a user name and password. (Some systems support other credentials, like smart cards or certificates.) Wi-Fi Login Pro joins Periodik Labs’s lower-end Elektron server (Mac OS X, Windows; $300; unlimited users). Wi-Fi Login Pro runs $200 for 100 users, but is designed for somewhat simpler administration. There’s a trial version.I recommend …

Wilkes-Barres signs Frontier: The large landline telecom will install Wi-Fi throughout the city. The city recently dumped one provider that had won bidding after that provider during negotiation said the city would have to provide a $1.25m loan guarantee. [link via MuniWireless]Wi-Fi payphones in Russia: While Verizon once planned to put Wi-Fi on hundreds of payphones in New York (for reasons that we still never figured out), Comstar and Moscow City Telephone Network will install Wi-Fi on 200 “coin-box” payphones …