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Google and Earthlink have won the bid to provide the city of San Francisco with wireless service. The network will give users throughout the city the option of accessing the Internet via a two tier system.

The two companies are currently in talks to discuss the network’s infrastructure. Google will offer a free service, while Earthlink will provide a premium service that runs about four times faster. The Earthlink service will cost users about $20 USD a month. The city of San Francisco hopes the network will be up and running by the end of the year.

A few months back the city of San Francisco put out a request for proposal to create an affordable, broadband WiFi service for everyone in the vicinity, including low income, underprivileged families. A total of six bids were handed to the Department of Telecommunications and Information Services, with Google and Earthlink being the highest profile team. The other five bids came from Bridge Global, MetroFi, NextWLAN, Razortooth Communications and SF Metro Connect.

So last week the Juno Awards were held in Canada. I only got a chance to catch up on the local news yesterday, as I’ve been away for most of the last 2 weeks. Seems like Pamela Anderson’s breasts were The Story.

No, it wasn’t a story about Pam Anderson’s breasts getting larger or smaller. It was the fact that every newspaper in Canada seemed to devote half the front page to a picture of “Pammy” in a low cut gown. I wonder if every newspaper’s distribution went through the roof because of “the picture” of Pam’s Breasts ?? The funniest bylines I saw which appeared for “other” stories on newspaper’s top pages were “Booby Prize - (and in a much smaller font) Maritimers boo Pammy’s seal hunt rant” and “Mounties Stand Erect.” I guess it was slow news day.

Perhaps the funniest one I saw was this morning, Warren Kinsella wrote a line about “Pam Anderson and her two best friends.”

If different pictures of Pam’s breasts could be featured daily in the newspapers, perhaps they would be able to remain competitive with all the online news portals, or at least the 2,210,000 (+1) web sites that reference “Pamela Anderson’s Breasts” (!)