NetStumbler.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]

The UN says it is good for poorer nations, Exeter is the best place for it, you can get it with your burger, lager or latte, it is in 200 phone boxes, and the UK’s E-commerce Minister Stephen Timms wants every library to have it.
Via [news.bbc.co.uk]

What started a century ago with Marconi’s radio and became the now ubiquitous cellphone is now taking shape around a two-way radio technology called wi-fi (short for “wireless fidelity”). It promises to unplug more communications devices by making the Internet available just about everywhere and letting people talk to each other more easily than ever before.
Via [csmonitor.com]