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Stories · 2

  1. San Francisco's Got Free Wi-Fi

    Hardware · Wireless · · posted by timothy · from the leave-your-heart-and-brain dept. · 156 comments
    Carpoolio writes "If you're living in San Francisco, chances are you can connect, for free, to the BARWN -- the Bay Area Research Wireless Network. BARWN broadcasts an 802.11 signal from the top of a big hill near San Francisco, and anyone with a clear sight line to the signal can connect. Another set of wireless nodes are being placed around town by SFLan, making Wi-Fi available to tens of thousands of people."

  2. Tim O'Reilly Points Toward Next 'Killer App'

    Software · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the but-can-it-make-coffee dept. · 109 comments
    santos_douglas writes "Extreme Tech has this article in which Tim O'Reilly, the man behind every geeks favorite tech manuals, points toward four major leading indicators that will predict the next likely 'killer app' to emerge from the hacker community. They are: (1) Amazon.com web services (2) BARWN (3) Hardware hackers and (4) online gaming communities."