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Google Wireless Patents Published

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-onto-the-aethernet dept.

Ian wrote to mention a ZDNet article about several patents on wireless technology held by Google employees. From the article: "The patent applications, filed by Google employees Wesley Chan, Shioupyn Shen and former Google product management director Georges Harik, propose lowering the cost of wireless access by offsetting the costs via advertisements on the service. Google, which receives the bulk of its revenue from advertisers, is seeking to expand its potential advertising base by moving further into the wireless market."

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  1. Linksys by quokkapox · · Score: 5, Funny
    As I've stated previously here, I cannot conceive how Google nor anyone else plans to compete with the existing "linksys" free wi-fi monopoly.

    I don't like monopolies, but linksys is free, ad-free, and conveniently ubiquitous. I sometimes have to deliberately tell my PC to connect to my own secured wireless AP so I can get to my files. It's almost annoying.

    BTW how *does* linksys make their money, anyway?

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    1. Re:Linksys by zettabyte · · Score: 2, Funny
      BTW how *does* linksys make their money, anyway?

      Volume.

  2. Re:they are patenting advertising support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    See, that's why you'll never be a success in business. The proper response is:

    "That's brilliant! I thought of that years ago and I'm going to sue you preemptively for theft of my intellectual property."