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You agree that a business may pay Instagram to display your photos in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions without any compensation to you. That sentence was added to Instagram’s terms of service yesterday, sparking widespread outrage — the most panicked analysis claims Instagram just gave itself permission to sell everyone’s photos at will. Even the least icky hypothetical scenarios being tossed around are completely icky: your parents leave a comment on a photos of your kid, and five minutes later, they’re looking at an ad for a new life insurance policy featuring that same intimate photo of their grandchild. Is this really the future of Instagram? Well, in a way. But it’s a lot more like Facebook’s current “sponsored post” system than anything else — there’s no way Instagram can up and sell your photos to anyone, and advertisers are fairly limited in what they can do with those photos. Here’s what’s going on.

“Along with the increasing use of Wi-Fi by service providers to offload cellular data traffic, current market drivers in key enterprise verticals such as education will ensure the market for enterprise-class WLAN devices and solutions will see continued traction, and that the market is expected to stay vibrant for the foreseeable future.” - Rohit Mehra, IDC - Sept. 2012 

The Wi-Fi array, which I once described as either a super multi-radio AP or a collapsed-backbone WLAN switch (or both), is a great way to provision a lot of capacity in a given location, and Xirrus, who pioneered and lead in this space, have in recent years been offering arrays with modular...