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Submitted by The Fire Inside on Thu, 08/17/2006 - 1:45am.

CNN: "Google: Free Wi-Fi for our hometown":

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Google Inc. on Wednesday plans to offer free, high-speed Internet access to everyone in its Silicon Valley home town -- a hospitable gesture that the online search leader hopes to see spread to other parts of the country.

As the article points out, this could also be a business decision for Google.

But it is nice to see a company putting resources back into the community.

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