Would you trade information on your location in exchange for free Wi-Fi access? Facebook is betting that the answer is yes.
Wired reports that Facebook expanded a test of what it refers to as Facebook Wi-Fi from its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., to cafes in nearby Palo Alto and San Francisco, and even to a line of Cisco Systems routers.
Facebook users who check in at locations offering Facebook Wi-Fi will be granted free access in exchange for doing so, according to Wired, which added that the initiative began at Facebook headquarters in May 2012, spreading to local businesses in Menlo Park last November, and to some Philz Coffee San Francisco locations a few months later.
On the hardware front, Cisco announced the integration of Facebook Wi-Fi as an optional service for its Meraki line of routers last month, Wired reported, adding that the social network is in talks with other router...
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