Why isn’t there free Wi-Fi everywhere? I ask this as I sit in an Espresso Vivace in Seattle, typing away and enjoying free wireless (and a truly terrific latte—easily an 8.5 on the Huang scale). Being new to the city and still in the process of setting up connectivity, I’m acutely aware of any and all hotspots I find.
Home to one of the world’s top universities, Harvard Square normally hosts the exchange of ideas, but can now host the exchange of data, too. On Wednesday a number of businesses and organizations partnered to launch free public Wi-Fi for users within a half mile of the square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Harvard Square will launch free Wi-Fi to the public Wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m. The Harvard Square Business Association has been working in collaboration with Cambridge, Harvard University and Harvard Square Business Association members to deploy a mesh network to provide free, outdoor Wi-Fi access to the public.
Seniors are about to lose their Harvard Internet access, but thanks to a new wireless network, those staying in the Square won’t be left stranded. The Harvard Square Business Association activated a wireless network yesterday afternoon that provides free Internet to anyone in the Square area, temporarily christened “Hogwarts Square” in honor of J. K. Rowling, the University’s Commencement speaker.
The owner of Harvard Book Store, an independent shop on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Plympton Street said this week that he planned to sell the shop that has been owned by his family since 1932.
The owner of the Harvard Book Store, a landmark that has been in the same family for 76 years, has put the store up for sale.
Come this summer, there will be six ice cream or frozen yogurt stores within walking distance of the Yard, but only one of them will boast four walls of grass.
Behind the concrete barriers and relocated traffic of Brattle Street, pedestrians may have noticed a cry for help posted above the green-striped awning of Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe: “CITY OF CAMBRIDGE IS NOT PAYING OUR BILLS DURING CONSTRUCTION PLEASE HELP.”
Although Cambridge’s proposal to provide free citywide wireless Internet service—which was originally slated to be completed in 2006—has been delayed for two years, the city is still working with various organizations to create a municipal wireless network.
Joan Baez was doing what she always does at a concert, something as inane as tuning her guitar as the audience piped down. Except last night it felt particularly poignant, even nostalgic.