Austin, One of the Hottest Spots for Wireless

According to a story in Tuesday's Austin Business Journal, Austin offers more free wireless availability than any city in the US except San Francisco. We wish they would have told us this while we were trying to find a place to check our email last week.

Austin has 97 free hot spots, while San Francisco has 368, according to JiWire Inc., which ranked cities in the United States and around the world based on the number of wireless Internet connections in public places such as cafés and hotels. San Francisco has more wireless hot spots overall than any U.S. city, according to the survey. San Francisco has 801 such connections, followed by New York, with 643, and Chicago, with 501. Austin has 293 hot spots.