Category: Community
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Seattle Wi-Fi users may find slightly fewer hotspots because Cometa is closing its doors, but the shutdown shouldn't hurt the overall growth of the hotspot market. Via [seattletimes.nwsource.com]
A Mountain View startup plans to introduce communitywide wireless fidelity first in Silicon Valley, then across California and eventually coast to coast. It would be the first extensive deployment of wi-fi across cities and towns. Via [sanjose.bizjournals.com]
When Mayor Street announced on Friday that he intends to rig LOVE Park up with wireless access to the Internet, he proved he's thinking along the right lines when it comes to this under-used urban park. Via [philly.com]
San Francisco has made its share of alternative-type news lately. In addition to being the world center for same-sex marriage -- at least for a while -- it's also vying to become the center for alternative, independent Wi-Fi Internet service. To that end, say hello to SFLan. Via [newsforge.com]
In apartment complexes, dormitories and neighborhoods, people are using Wi-Fi technology to set up communal wireless networks with friends. The process allows multiple users to take advantage of one high-speed broadband Internet connection, sparing many from shelling out the extra bucks for a connection of their own. Via [deseretnews.com]
Browsing the Web from this Southern California city may soon become an outdoor sport. Via [cnn.com]
Early last spring, NYCWireless co-founder Anthony Townsend got a note in the mail saying that someone on his network had been violating copyright laws. Via [news.com.com]
The future of wireless networks can be found about an hour from Atlanta, in the foothills of Georgia's northeast mountains.
Thousands of tech enthusiasts across Europe are setting up wireless communities to get free Internet access. Via [edition.cnn.com]
Hundreds of wireless networks that offer free high-speed Internet access are sprouting across the USA. They're in a park in Midtown Manhattan, a housing project in Boston, a movie house pub in Austin and along the waterfront in Portland, Ore. Via [usatoday.com]
A growing number of cities are setting up Wi-Fi access in public outdoor areas like parks for business districts. Via [news.com.com]
Sharing high-speed Internet access via wireless networks is growing in popularity, but some liken it to stealing cable TV. Via [g4techtv.com]
"This is why I love New York," says Anthony Townsend, standing in the middle of Washington Square Park, holding his laptop computer like a butler's tray and scanning the adult playground the place becomes on hot summer evenings. Where else, he asks, can you walk around with a computer, surf the Web, and go utterly...
It's hard to tell whether these things are a threat or an opportunity for ISPs. I'm talking about community wireless networks using inexpensive 802.11b radios and antennas operating in the 2.4 GHz spectrum band, and possibly other license-free bands. Via [isp-planet.com]