Few start-ups encapsulate the desperate utopianism of the times so much as Fon Technology.
Created by the Argentinian dot.com billionaire Martin Varsavsky, who built and sold the Spanish portal Ya.com and ISP Jazztel before the bubble burst, at the heart of Fon is a soulful of hope.
Like gay marriage, but for bloggers Newt Gingrich once proposed giving laptops to the homeless – at the same time as he was axing food and medical services for the poor. Now San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom has borrowed a page from his playbook. Wi-Fi is a ‘fundamental right’, Newsom said today at a press … Read more
Five months after announcing its first Google-branded hot spots, covering San Francisco’s Union Square and main public library, Google is enhancing the service. The ad giant briefly made a beta of a proxy server, Google Secure Access, available for limited download today before withdrawing the link. The proxy is intended to protect 802.11 wireless users … Read more
“Or the arrival of the Web browser, which blew millions of minds, making a mouseclick feel like teleportation.” Chris Anderson, Wired I was really calling the editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson, to check up on which weird and interesting drugs he was taking when he wrote the sentence you see above you. [* answer … Read more