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About a one-square mile area has become a Wi-Fi hotspot, allowing residents, business people and tourists using computers with wireless connections to get online for free. The cost of the service is being covered by advertisements on the service provider's home page.

Plans call for the service area to gradually expand.

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The most common — and easiest — method of networking is Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity). It uses radio waves to allow computers and accessory devices to communicate with each other and the Internet. But your Wi-Fi signal can easily extend beyond the walls of your home, making it possible for neighbors and strangers with Wi-Fi-enabled computers to pick up and use your Internet connection if it is not properly secured. Worse still, if your signal is left unprotected, hackers could use it to access your personal data. Full Story...

The most common — and easiest — method of networking is Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity). It uses radio waves to allow computers and accessory devices to communicate with each other and the Internet. But your Wi-Fi signal can easily extend beyond the walls of your home, making it possible for neighbors and strangers with Wi-Fi-enabled computers to pick up and use your Internet connection if it is not properly secured. Worse still, if your signal is left unprotected, hackers could use it to access your personal data. Full Story...

Sprint is selling a Linksys EV-DO to Wi-Fi router and the less surprising step of selling a USB EV-DO dongle. With the router any Sprint EV-DO card can be turned into an 802.11g local area network.

According to Sprint the router will cost about $200 and won’t require any change to existing EV-DO subscriptions. Currently those subscriptions costs $59.99/month for unlimited data, or $79.99 if you don’t have a Sprint mobile phone.