Wi-Fi Promises Internet Shake-Up

by Mark Ward BBC News, 8 March 2006 There is a good reason why the biggest wi-fi zones in the UK are in the City of London and Canary Wharf, with widespread wireless access being touted as the force behind the net's next wave of innovation. The first wave centred around the dotcom boom of the late 1990s when lucrative domains were snapped up, fledgling web businesses were established and everyone got dizzy on the potential of this new medium. Some of that potential is starting to be seen now in what is being called Web 2.0. Read more