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[News] Google-funded Startup Company Gives Free Wi-fi to Compete with Microsoft

  • Subject: [News] Google-funded Startup Company Gives Free Wi-fi to Compete with Microsoft
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:03:48 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Wi-Fi Startup to Pick Up Where Google Left Off in SF

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| An earlier attempt by Google and EarthLink to offer free city-wide Wi-Fi 
| access in San Francisco foundered in August when EarthLink pulled out. They 
| had planned a two-tier service, with faster, paid access provided by 
| EarthLink and a more limited, advertising-funded service to be offered by 
| Google. The search engine giant is also an investor in Meraki.    
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141006-c,wireless/article.html

Only Windows admins would not change the default password....

A Wi-Fi virus outbreak? Researchers say it's possible

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| The researchers theorize that attack would work by guessing administrative 
| passwords and then instructing the routers to install new worm-like firmware 
| which would in turn cause the infected router to attack other devices in its 
| range.   
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/010408-a-wi-fi-virus-outbreak-researchers.html

Very funny:

http://xkcd.com/364/

Microsoft entered the Wi-fi business as well Microsoft too has been entering
business outside software and computing (just like Google) for diversification
and greater control. Examples below.


Recent:

China's Changhong seeks $136 mln stake in Huayi

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| Sichuan Changhong Electric Co, a Chinese electrical appliance maker partly 
| owned by Microsoft Corp, said it will bid for a controlling stake in Huayi 
| Compressor Co 000404.SZ in a deal that could be worth about 1 billion yuan 
| ($136 million).   
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idINPEK15028120071224?rpc=44


Related:

Microsoft to join municipal Wi-Fi fray

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| Microsoft is jumping into the municipal wireless space with a deal
| to provide local content and ads for MetroFi's free wireless
| Internet service in Portland, Ore., by the end of this year,
| the companies are expected to announce on Wednesday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6135679.html


Microsoft Looks Within to Design and Test Chips

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| For more than two decades, Microsoft's software and
| Intel's processors were so wedded that the pairingc
| ame to be known as Wintel. But as that computing era
| wanes, Microsoft is turning to a new source of chip
| design: its own labs.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/technology/19soft.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
http://tinyurl.com/ydtq7k


The importance of Zune to Microsoft Corp.

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| Zune is Microsoft's attempt to integrate hardware and software *and*
| to become the channel for (music) content -- thus creating an integratedp
| lay far-different from its Window's OS business model where Microsoft
| mainly provides OS & important application software while hardware an
| content for users is provided by other companies.
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http://www.thebizofcoding.com/2006/09/the_importance_of_zune_to_micr.html


How will Windows survive the death of the PC?

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| For Microsoft, the answer is critical, since Windows is still not a
| natural fit for a mobile platform that has no PC heritage.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/16/samsung_runcom_help_microsoft/


Gates to generate your electricity

,----[ Quote ]
| His personal investment vehicle -- a nice drive if you can afford
| it -- Cascade Investments is today expected to partner with New
| Mexico-based PNM Resources on electricity generation and trading.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35521


Microsoft takes it to the bank

,----[ Quote ]
| Is the world ready for Microsoft Banking? Banks are traditionally
| very conservative with their software and hardware choices, and
| most still rely on expensive mainframes with multiple levels of
| failure protection. However, banks are also making a huge push
| to expand into other services, such as investment planning, and
| all these new services require new software. If they are
| successful, Microsoft will be laughing all the way to the, er, bank.
`----

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/11/14/5956


Microsoft Refuses To Acknowledge Major Wireless Headset Flaws

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| Weeks after the release of the new Wireless 360 headset, many
| customers have complained about hundreds upon hundreds of documented
| flaws with no official response or product recall from MS.
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http://www.2old2play.com/News/Microsoft_Refuses_To_Acknowledge_Major_Wireless_Headset_Flaws


http://www.flickr.com/photos/pottsc/129800718/in/set-72057594107882520/

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