By Fred O. Williams, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 25--The lunchtime crowd at Lafayette S...uare hunches over paperbacks, pita sandwiches and scratch-off lottery tickets, but rarely laptop computers. They hold sodas and cell phones, not miniature e-mail devices.
It's been 10 days since a wireless zone blanketed the s...uare with Internet connections. The area is called a "hot spot," but it's getting a lukewarm reception from the digital elite.
Fifty people have logged in, exchanging their e-mail address for f