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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Six free downtown Wi-Fi hotspots to use during SXSWi

By Omar Gallaga | Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 11:18 PM

Sure, the Austin Convention Center and nearby Downtown Hilton are obvious places to hop online during South by Southwest Interactive, but if you’re not close enough to get a signal and find yourself elsewhere downtown, here’s a few other places you can expect a good, strong stream of free Internet access (click map for larger image):

Whole Foods Market, 525 N. Lamar Blvd.
Austin Public Library, 1161 Angelina St.
Jo’s Hot Coffee, 242 W. Second St.
Austin Convention Center, 500 E. Cesar Chavez St.
Freebirds, 515 S. Congress Ave.
Jo’s Hot Coffee, 1300 S. Congress Ave.

(With assistance from this A-List blog item.)

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Top 10 Austin techie hotspots

By Omar Gallaga | Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 01:51 PM

In town for South by Southwest Interactive? Here’s some of the spots of interest to techies in Austin (click the map to see a larger version):

Building 45 — Located on IBM’s North Austin campus, the ‘Rust Bucket’ dates back to the ’60s and is the birthplace of some of the company’s Power processors and Unix servers. 11301 Burnet Road.
Texas Advanced Computing Center, J.J. Pickle Research Campus — World-renowned supercomputing center. 10100 N. Burnet Road.
Austin Studios — East Austin film production facility where parts of ‘Sin City’ and the ‘Friday the 13th’ remake were shot. 1901 E. 51st St.
Dobie Center near UT — Once upon a time, Michael Dell opened PC’s Ltd. there before dropping out of school. Now he’s got fancier digs at the Dell Inc. headquarters in Round Rock. 2021 Guadalupe St.
The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum IMAX Theatre — We’ve got giant 3-D movies. 1800 N. Congress Ave.
Sullivan’s — Downtown steakhouse that was the go-to place to schmooze (and eventually lose) during the dot-com boom. 300 Colorado St.
Conjunctured — Austin’s first co-working space. 1309 E. Seventh St.
‘Office Space’ filming locations — The Alligator Grill (3003 S. Lamar Blvd.) is the real ‘Chotchkie’s’ and
4120 Freidrich Lane is home to the office building we all know as Initech.
Building 3 — Location at AMD Inc.’s old campus where many of the company’s chips (Athlon, Shanghai) were designed. 5900 E. Ben White Blvd.