Tag: WiFi
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Fon: a billionaire Wi-Fi Utopian and his Blog Chorus
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Andrew Orlowski
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Few start-ups encapsulate the desperate utopianism of the times so much as Fon Technology.
Created by the Argentinian dot.com billionaire Martin Varsavsky, who built and sold the Spanish portal Ya.com and ISP Jazztel before the bubble burst, at the heart of Fon is a soulful of hope.… Read More
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Wi-Fi a basic human right, says SF Mayor
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Andrew Orlowski
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Like gay marriage, but for bloggers
Newt Gingrich once proposed giving laptops to the homeless – at the same time as he was axing food and medical services for the poor. Now San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom has borrowed a page from his playbook. Wi-Fi is a ‘fundamental right’, Newsom said today at a press conference.
The city wants to see an “affordable” Wi-Fi network covering the 43 hills, and 49 square miles of San Francisco, and Google is one … Read More
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GoogleNet flickers into life
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Andrew Orlowski
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Five months after announcing its first Google-branded hot spots, covering San Francisco’s Union Square and main public library, Google is enhancing the service. The ad giant briefly made a beta of a proxy server, Google Secure Access, available for limited download today before withdrawing the link.
The proxy is intended to protect 802.11 wireless users at Google hot spots from casual packet sniffing. But it also gives the ad broker the advantage of knowing what you’re looking at, and exactly … Read More
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Chris Anderson makes me a bet
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Andrew Orlowski
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“Or the arrival of the Web browser, which blew millions of minds, making a mouseclick feel like teleportation.”
Chris Anderson, WiredI was really calling the editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson, to check up on which weird and interesting drugs he was taking when he wrote the sentence you see above you.
[* answer below]
Anderson bet me that in five years time, there will be more 802.11 chipsets then there will be mobile phone chipsets. Naturally, opportunities like … Read More