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...like "found money" for both parties, says music-industry analyst Charles Golvin of Forrester Research. "Neither has to do a whole lot of work - just license, sit back and count the money rolling in." Some of that instant cash may find its way to FON, an ambitious new global wi-fi network. Skype, along with Google and others, will invest $22 million in the Spanish start-up, which plans to have more than 1 million hot spots by 2010. Subscribers will pay less than $2 a day to have guaranteed wireless access wherever they roam. More than 3,000 people...
...Some of that instant cash may find its way to FON, an ambitious new global wi-fi network. Skype, along with Google and others, will invest $22 million in the Spanish start-up, which plans to have more than 1 million hot spots by 2010. Subscribers will pay less than $2 a day to have guaranteed wireless access wherever they roam. More than 3,000 people have signed up since the beta version launched in November. "It's a dream come true," FON founder Martin Varsavsky says of his new partners, although he demurs on the specific roles Google...
...does, however, have some software idiosyncrasies. When I plug it into my laptop, for example, it crashes the computer's Wi-Fi connection. The only solution is a full reboot. Even when it can't connect to the Internet, because - for instance - it's in Flight Mode (no radio, for use on airplanes), it tries anyway, and then gives you error messages, rather than alerting you to switch modes. Incidentally, during my test I put the phone in Flight Mode, then couldn't figure out how to get it back to a normal calling state...
...enjoy seeing your name in the big papers? JR: Oh, it’s also scary, you know. You can be misquoted. Luckily, I haven’t been misquoted. It’s certainly been a huge incursion on my time. People phoning me, e-mailing me, my Wi-Fi breaking down at home over the weekend. All those things were an incursion into my time. So no, I don’t have that particular desire to be famous. I’d rather keep teaching and writing...
...Google came up with a formula to help ensure this. Every employee is meant to divide his or her time in three parts: 70% devoted to Google's core businesses, search and advertising; 20% on pursuits related to the core; and 10% on far-out ideas. The San Francisco wi-fi initiative resulted from someone's 10% time; so did Google Talk, a free system for instant and voice messaging. If Google ever builds that space elevator, it will no doubt be during 10% time...