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Pastrami and Wi-Fi: Schlotzsky's offers limited free service: The deli chain is providing free Wi-Fi in 10 stores as part of an experiment. I picked up on Schlotzsky's just in time to include them in a book that Adam Engst and I are delivering to our publisher next week called The Wireless Networking Starter Kit. (The News.com article from the link above misdefines hot spot, and probably way overestimates the number of wireless nodes. It's more likely that 15 million adapters (cards and access points) have been shipped, not nodes installed, and nodes aren't hot spots, which are publicly accessible locations.)
Dell to add dual-mode Wi-Fi to Latitude line: From this article, it's unclear whether they're just putting PC Cards in the standard preconfigured package, or actually modifying the hardware a la Apple. Apple has also changed its preconfigured offerings for iBooks and PowerBooks by including AirPort as a standard option instead of a Built To Order (BTO) add-on. This is significant, because people typically buy the preconfigured packages, as BTOs can add two weeks to delivery time. Also, Apple resellers and Apple Stores stock the preconfigured units.
Alan Reiter on the state of Wi-Fi in our nation's capital: Alan critiques the Washington Post article from earlier in the week, and notes how there's about to be an explosion of hot spot access, mostly from T-Mobile.