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[Force Against Something] The free Internet revolution has already started in some Silicon Valley and San Francisco areas, and recent evidence that Google is buying up miles of fiber optic cable and super fast Internet connections points to the certainty that free WiFi in California is just the beginning of something much larger, something colossal like free nation wide WiFi.

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[Google Maps Mania] 3 new Google Maps mashups!: Free Wifi in San Francisco - A Google Map to find locations offering free wifi in San...Jabber Google Map - From the "Jabber" Wikipedia entry: Jabber is an open, XML-based protocol... the Internet and is used by over ten million people worldwide, according to the Jabber Software

[Good Morning Silicon Valley] Well, you see, we meant "Bay Areas" - you know Whitsand Bay, Byron Bay, Bay of Fundy: Bay Area satellite cities in the near future, perhaps along with the company's rumored WiFi service, all with one end in mind: Mining our online data for advertising leads. "Google primarily offers all this really cool free stuff in order to mine your hard drive for information and use it to sell ads," Seth Jayson notes in The Motley Fool.

[flipthedolphin] You’ll Be Indexed. Resistance Is Futile: Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room run by the Grateful Dead’s former chef, and its employees traverse the firm’s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates.

[Stocks or Bonds?] GOOGLENET FOR A CHEAP PRICE: Eventually, ones Googler will calculate the cost of your groceries at your favorite store to be $155, the cost at your next favorite store to be $160 but the cost if you buy the lowest price at the two stores to be $153.

[Wifi.weblogsinc.com] The WiFi Weblog - wifi.weblogsinc.com _: According to their corporate website, Google Secure Access can be downloaded for free, but is only available in certain locations in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, by using Google Secure Access, the company says that a user’s Internet traffic will be encrypted and will prevent others from viewing the information you transmit.

[Wifinetnews.com] Wi-Fi Networking News: Take Control of Your Wi-Fi Security and Take Control of Your AirPort Network released: I co-wrote the former, Take Control of Your Wi-Fi Security, which offers extensive, hands-on, step-by-step coverage and detailed explanations of how to set up Wi-Fi security for home and small office networks for Mac and Windows. This is version 1.0 of this ebook ($10, downloadable, 161 pages), but it’s an adaptation with extensive revision and new material of a section of The Wireless Networking Starter Kit.

[Jeremy.zawodny.com] Secure Google Wifi? (by Jeremy Zawodny): Your internet traffic becomes encryptedwhen you send it out, decrypted by Google, the requested data downloaded by Google, encrypted and sent to you, and decrypted on your maching. This has the effect of protecting your traffic data from others who may want to access it.

[News.com.com] Google offers Wi-Fi protection | News.blog | CNET News.com: The process did raise some hackles among bloggers, who worried that the plan may be a way for Google to access massive amounts of data on people's surfing habits. Google's Web accelerator program, designed to speed up Internet access, also came under fire on privacy grounds, and Google eventually stopped allowing downloads of the service.