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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Long Beach to offer free Wi-Fi downtown

"The city of Long Beach, Calif., plans to announce on Friday that it will make free wireless Internet access available in its downtown area as part of an effort to attract visitors and companies to the business district. The city will use the increasingly popular standard known as Wi-Fi, which lets personal computers and other hand-held devices connect to the Internet without wires at high speed," says John Markoff in the New York Times [free registration required].

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