Wi-Fi Spreading Fast But Lacks Profits

clapton_fan writes "The New York Times has a story that details the spread of wireless networks but says the concept has been short on profits thus far. Its growth is mainly attributable to homes and small businesses. Corporations are reluctant to embrace them because of security concerns. Meanwhile, Intel is planning to have every device that uses an Intel chip Wi-Fi enabled which will make it difficult for companies that sell Wi-Fi as an accessory to prosper."

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Oh Really?

[warpSpeed]

Wi-Fi Spreading Fast But Lacks Profits

Sounds like the internet....

:-P

WarChalk Symbols

[mestoph]

Since an article was published in a number of major mag's around the world. Have people seen a massive drop in warchalk symbols.

Used Warchalk symbols

Is this because people them erasing them as fast as they are put down, or is it because companies have become aware of the open-ness of there wi-fi networks and closed the security on them. Needless to say i've seen hardly any symbols around london or manchester (UK) in the past month or so. I personally just used them to grab email, as usually my cellphone would lose signal too often in the city to be worth trying to grab large amounts of mail.