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Google Partners with Earthlink in Municipal Wi-Fi

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the many-hands-make-light-work dept.

tsalaroth writes "lightreading.com has an interesting article regarding the San Francisco Wi-Fi bids. Apparently, Google and Earthlink bid separately for building the municiple Wi-Fi, but have now joined forces. From the article: 'In this proposal, Google will provide a free WiFi service citywide and EarthLink will serve as the premium service provider.'"

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  1. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    * Google is strengthening their partnership with VA Software Corp. Secret talks about changing the name of Slashdot to SlashGoogledot.

  2. You really wanna know? by Colin+Smith · · Score: 2, Funny

    "What could possibly go wrong from here?"

    Google's networked systems achieve consciousness on 10th June at 7pm GMT... blah blah blah we've all seen the results of that... Gotta be stopped... Who wants the mini-gun?

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