The Toledo Blade continues to write somewhat inaccurately about MetroFi’s proposal to the city: The newspaper is owned by Block Communications, which also owns a potential competing bidder that the city said didn’t provide a viable proposal by the deadline. The story says that there’s a debate over whether Toledo will pony up $2.2m to have MetroFi build a city-wide network. But regardless of whether there’s a debate, that’s not what the deal is.The $2.2m represents services that Toledo must commit …

EarthLink relaunches the Texas city’s network: Corpus Christi originally built out its municipal network for meter reading and such. They decided to hand the network over to EarthLink for operations and to extend it for public access. EarthLink says three-quarters of the 55 sq mi network are up and running now. Rates are $20 per month with the first six months at $7. A one-year commitment garners a free wireless bridge. Interestingly, based on the current schedule, Corpus Christi could be EarthLink’s first completed …

Clarins! Take me away: Cut to scene of woman with skin like Scarlett Johansson lounging in tub, surrounded by cell phones, Wi-Fi gateways, and uranium. “I’m 75, but you would never know it. Until now, I’ve spent 23 hours each day in a lead-lined bathysphere, miles below the earth to keep my skin silky smooth. But now I have Clarins Expertise 3P, specially formulated to protect me from artificial electromagnetic waves. While I always try to use natural electromagnetic waves, spending days at a time in the Van …

The Cloud can’t even give away its City of London Wi-Fi: The network covering London’s business district, “The Square Mile,” attracted 6,000 registered users in the first month, out of a working and visiting population of 350,000. There’s a kind of mismatch. There aren’t that many devices for which mobile Wi-Fi is useful yet. People come to the City to work, and thus have Wi-Fi at work. Those who roam the area probably already carry 3G smartphones.Wi-Fi Planet rounds up the several delayed …

I can’t make this stuff up: “The San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna-Free Union (SNAFU) is a grass-roots, city-wide coalition of individual residents and neighborhood organizations that works to prevent the placement of wireless antennas on or near residences, schools, health care centers, day care centers, senior centers, playgrounds, places of worship, and other inappropriate locations in the City and County of San Francisco.” That is, everywhere in the city.If the group is successful in their effects to force a unique environmental review of the Wi-Fi network, a review that …