Surf and Sip adds free intranode chatting: Surf and Sip has added an interesting free feature for its network. You can use the gateway page to launch a chat session with anyone at any other Surf and Sip node for free. Now the utility of this is a little confusing because their nodes are widespread, not dense, and you'd have to coordinate with other people. Still it's a good experiment to try free services inside of for-fee networks.
I originally expected Microsoft's component of the Compaq-Microsoft-Starbucks deal (which was actually MobileStar's service, but with all these other brands on it) to be localized information from MSN for free. But that never happened. Instead you got HP-T-Mobile-Starbucks, in which HP takes out ads that promote the service and then encourage people to use their connection software -- which requires one of HP's special cards.