SF News Huge Security Flaw Means Nearly Every WiFi Device In The World Is Vulnerable To Hijacking, Eavesdropping A security researcher has determined that nearly every WiFi device in the world — your phone, your computer, your router, and on and on — has a flaw in their security protocol that makes them
SF News Underground Muni Riders To Finally Be Blessed With Cell Phone Service As long as there have been cell phones, riders of Muni's light rail system have been afflicted with the scourge of no bars (now dots, I guess) any time the vehicles plunged beneath
SF News Why We May Never Have Wi-Fi On Muni Or BART You'll recall how last year BART canceled that contract they had with a wi-fi service provider after five spotty years of service that drew thousands of complaints. Well, commuters and the Chronicle's Michael
Arts & Entertainment Video: Giant Wall Coming To The Beach To Provide Shade, Wi-Fi A giant wall will soon be at the beach to provide you shelter from the Sun's rays and a Wi-Fi signal to upload that beach bod selfie to Instagram. The four-story Shadow Wifi
SF News [UPDATE] No More Wi-Fi On BART Trains, In Stations Though you may have found some free wi-fi in BART stations and on some trains the last few years, the test program under which that was being provided has now ended. As BART
SF News A Year Later, SF's Free WiFi For 32 City Parks Finally Kicks Off Well over a year after San Francisco announced a partnership with Google to put free WiFi in San Francisco parks, the service is finally ready for launch. As reported in July of 2013,
SF News Google To Give Free WiFi For 31 S.F. Parks Delightful. The dream of working remotely from Dolores Park might soon become a beautiful, frolicking reality. The fine folks at Google unveiled plans today to give San Francisco parks free wifi -- 31
SF News Free WiFi at Muni Stops In 2013 Part of the plan to make San Francisco run exclusively on sunshine and eco-righteousness, the city plans on erecting 360 new Muni bus stops "that'll further the causes of both solar power and
misc At Least You Can Get Some Email Done While You're Crawling Along Hey, which would you rather have: a bus that comes on time, or a bus that comes late but has a nifty antenna on top? Well who cares what you want! You're getting
SF News The Telephone Hour From the moment you first plugged it in, your home telephone has been waiting for the moment when its existence would be justified. And now! At last! The Gavin Newsom '08 Phone Bank
SF News We Can't Recall: Your Latest In San Francisco Recall News So many recalls afoot these days, we're starting a new column! Today's recall news: a reader passed along these pictures of today's rather-sparsely attended Recall Peskin rally on the steps of City Hall.
SF News Google Makes a Funny Here's the thing, though. They stole the joke from Tom Ammiano. Who, actually, was serious about it. See, Tom's idea is that the city's WiFi plan should involve setting up broadband through the
SF News Everyone is A-Otay Not that we'd want to give him any ideas, however. In the not-so-happy side are homelessness, crime, and housing, all of which were listed as concerns. According to the pollsters crime wasn't even
SF News WiFi Is NoFi At this PointFi The question seems to be a matter of who should run the WiFi-- should a company control it or should the city run it they. The key hitch to having it built and
SF News The Day After the Day After So you're Alex Tourk. Everything is fine and honky dorky until your wife, out of the blue, admits to having a fling with not only your boss but one of your best buddies.
SF News Wi-Fi Deal One and Done Here's the details: -Earthlink will build the infrastructure and Google will provide the service. So look for an influx of HomelessGuy69@gmail.com accounts -The speed will be 300 kilobits. That's much faster
SF News It's Monday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is Called? But there's also some techy news to this story too as Cisco, the company which owns the property the proposed stadium will be built, plans to go all Cypberpunk on the stadium, turning
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Posturing Poobahs of Positivism We say suburban, because it seems to be the beachhead for second venues of out-of-town restaurants. We've had Patxis opening there from Palo Alto, and a few weeks later, next to Patxis, Cafe
SF News EarthLink and Google Alliance Wins The San Francisco WiFi Race Next up: EarthLink and (less prominently) Google will begin contract negotiations with San Francisco. It's too soon to tell what the end result will be (unless you're Kimo Crossman, who hasn't been that
SF News SXSW Update We were wondering why it was so easy to get a parking place in the Mission last night when we remembered that all the cool people are at SXSW. Cool people like SFist
SF News Questioning TechConnect Feeva.com which provided the Union Square hotspot and which Google is apparently behind, have now linked to this Business 2.0 article on their website about possible Google WiFi plans because it
SF News BarCamp 2005 It all started on Thursday night when Andy Smith, celebrating his birthday at the Beauty Bar and wearing a bathrobe, asked if we were going to BarCamp. "Uh, sure," was the reply, not
SF News The Crab Revolution Will be Televised But that's not the juicy bit of the story, oh no. Turns out, Fox Sports Bay Area wanted to cover the protest before the game but were told not to by Giants officials.
SF News Where's The Wifi? Well, it seems that the laptop-carrying set at San Francisco's Academy of Art University are stuck for quick, handy wireless internet access. Around three weeks ago during the school's spring break, some h4XX0r
Arts & Entertainment SFist Party Crash -- SFMOMA 10th Anniversary The people are beautiful, the music is trendy, the booze is incredibly expensive. If you are an SFMOMA member, you would have received an invite for two in the mail, and you probably
