Google Wifi
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cactain_steef a répondu le Wed 21 Sep, 2005 @ 1:07pm |
 Coolness: 154770 | ilovyou dino/ |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc a répondu le Wed 21 Sep, 2005 @ 4:52pm |
 Coolness: 148910 | hurray!! love for me!!
now i am the popular one! *said in a Dr. Zoidberg voice* |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc a répondu le Wed 21 Sep, 2005 @ 11:25pm |
| Coolness: 148910 | Google WiFi hints are on Web
COMPANY COY ON POSSIBLE FREE SERVICE By Michael Bazeley Mercury News Speculation that Google wants to blanket the Earth with free WiFi ratcheted up Tuesday after Internet users discovered software on its Web site that allows access to a service called ``Google WiFi.'' The downloadable software creates a secure WiFi connection to select Google ``hotspots'' in the Bay Area. Google representatives would not discuss the company's long-range plans regarding WiFi, or ``wireless fidelity'' technology for high-speed Internet access. But observers said offering WiFi access might fit in with Google's plans to find new ways to serve up ads and entice people to use its search-related services. A Google spokesman said the Web pages [ ] [ wifi.google.com ] relate to an experiment begun this summer to offer free, secure WiFi to some Silicon Valley establishments. Two WiFi hotspots were established in mid-summer near the company's Mountain View campus, one at Kapp's Pizza Bar and Grill and one at Airborne Gymnastics. A Google representative said the software discovered Tuesday has been available since the start of that experiment. Google has also sponsored a year-old free WiFi hotspot in Union Square in San Francisco and another at the San Francisco Public Library, both in partnership with San Francisco start-up Feeva. ``We don't have other announcements of any other hotspots,'' said Google spokeswoman Sonya Boralv. ``At this point, we're testing these limited locations.'' Boralv did not know whether the WiFi-related Web pages on Google's site were new or not. Outsiders have been speculating about Google's WiFi plans in earnest lately, especially after the publication of a Business 2.0 magazine story in August that suggested that Google wants to build a massive broadband network. The story was based on Google's relationship with the Union Square hotspot and the fact that Google has been buying up massive amounts of unused fiber-optic cable, once used by telecommunications companies that collapsed. Others believe that Google intends to use its network to deliver video content to its users. Jupiter Research analyst Julie Ask said Google's involvement in WiFi would make sense. WiFi providers can determine the location of their users to within about 300 feet, offering many opportunities to customize the type of content users see based on their geography. ``The potential for local search and local advertising comes into play,'' Ask said. Feeva, for example, sells software that lets businesses target ads and other online content based on geography. The free WiFi software that Google has available on its Web site, called ``Secure Access,'' is intended to be used on Google hotspots, but it may work elsewhere. The Windows-only software connects to Google's virtual private network (VPN) server and encrypts information that travels to and from a user's laptop computer. A Google engineer developed the service after recognizing that ``secure WiFi was virtually non-existent at most locations,'' the company Web site says. Google is not the first to offer secure WiFi access. Companies such as JiWire and HotSpotVPN do the same. The fact that WiFi traffic at Google hotspots moves across Google servers could raise privacy concerns. But the company said on its Web site that ``Google is careful not to store any of that information except as noted here.'' Exceptions include ``some information from your Web page requests.'' ``We do this to understand how Google Secure Access is being used and to improve our services,'' Google's privacy policy states. The company also ``does not log cookies and strips potentially sensitive query data from the end of requests to help better protect your privacy.'' |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc a répondu le Wed 21 Sep, 2005 @ 11:26pm |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc a répondu le Wed 21 Sep, 2005 @ 11:30pm |
| Coolness: 148910 | By STEVE LOHR Published: September 21, 2005 Google, with deep pockets and seemingly boundless ambition, keeps marching steadily beyond Internet searching into new markets like e-mail, advertising, book searches, a satellite map service, instant messaging and telephony. Where next? The most intriguing recent guess, based on a few Google experiments, is free wireless Internet service. And there appear to be fascinating hints on several Web pages nestled in Google's site. They describe a new test service called Google Wi-Fi and indicate how to use its wireless desktop software, Google Secure Access. On one page, the features and terms of the new service are described as answers to questions. "Is there a fee for using Google Secure Access? No, Google Secure Access is free." "Where can I go to download Google Secure Access? The program can currently be downloaded at certain Google Wi-Fi locations in the San Francisco Bay area." Citing those Web pages, Reuters carried an article yesterday saying that Google was preparing to introduce its own wireless Internet service. Later in the day, Reuters distributed a revised version of the article saying that Google had begun a limited test of the wireless service. Google started two wireless access points in Silicon Valley in July, a spokesman said yesterday, one at a pizzeria and the other at a gymnastics center. Recently, it also talked with San Francisco officials about setting up public wireless networks in the city, where it established a single access point in Union Square last spring with a partner, Feeva. Any further plans, a national rollout perhaps? "We have nothing to announce now," the spokesman, Nathan Tyler, said. The early efforts, Mr. Tyler said, are part of Google's public outreach program and in keeping with the corporate mission to "make the world's information available." Google is always guarded about new offerings. Its "billionaires with a heart" image - fostered in language and culture by its young founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin - only serves to make industry analysts and rivals think that some marketing strategy is to be teased out of even the most innocuous pronouncements. Speculation that Google may be planning free wireless service around the country has been rising. Last month, an article in Business 2.0 said that for the last year, the company had "quietly been shopping for miles and miles of 'dark,' or unused, fiber optic cable across the country," presumably as a step toward building a wireless network. Such a free wireless service could make business sense, according to John Battelle, author of "The Search," a new book about Google published by Portfolio Hardcover. "It would be another way for Google to sell targeted advertising and burnish its brand," Mr. Battelle said. "And it's very much in the tradition of Google's brand promise - great stuff free." Having its own wireless service, some analysts said, could reduce the risk Google would face if a big Internet service provider, like AOL, which now generates a lot of Google traffic, fell into the hands of its rival Microsoft. AOL and Microsoft have held talks recently. "Google may want to have more control over its own destiny," said Jordan Rohan, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets. Courtesy of The [ New">www.nytimes.com ] York Times |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cactain_steef a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 9:39am |
| Coolness: 154770 | hahah... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cactain_steef a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 9:40am |
| Coolness: 154770 | ...
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lone_Star a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 11:12am |
 Coolness: 153150 | oh. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 11:44am |
| Coolness: 148910 | oh yes |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Ms_bubbles a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 12:36pm |
 Coolness: 45395 | What about spyware will it be part of the whole pacage once they figure out its profitable? I mean i really don't think it's as free as they say.it's just why try it on Silicon Valey (big scale companies) where there is no chance of it fuking up?If it's free......... Corporate bull if u ask me.... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 12:38pm |
| Coolness: 148910 | nah |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Ms_bubbles a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 12:49pm |
| Coolness: 45395 | do you think it's gonna work? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 1:12pm |
 Coolness: 339760 | they're going to track all websites visited by people as well as some of your computer's specs..
they claim they just track the domain names/sites that you visit and none of the "sensitive" bits.. but i wonder how good they are at differentiating such things.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 1:21pm |
| Coolness: 148910 | seriously.. one day google can just fuck us all |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» GAK a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 1:45pm |
 Coolness: 51160 | free WiFi in montreal -> [ www.ilesansfil.org ] |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 1:59pm |
| Coolness: 339760 | i use them when i'm in class at school.. :D
FREE! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 2:00pm |
| Coolness: 148910 | yeah.. its alright...
theres 3 places near my school that have it.. but i dont need them.. i get free concordia wifi |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 2:05pm |
| Coolness: 339760 | well BLAH BLAH MR. SUPERCOOLFACE! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» daFTWin a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 2:27pm |
 Coolness: 276530 | Its Mr.superbawlincoolface, to you. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cactain_steef a répondu le Thu 22 Sep, 2005 @ 2:58pm |
| Coolness: 154770 | ohhh...you got served. and mooned! ha ha! |
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