As far as I understand it, Fox sold the rights to the show to Universal along with the feature film rights. How else would Sci-Fi (one of Universal's stations) be showing the tv-show.

This is marketing hype poorly disguised as a news story. The whole article reads like it was copied verbatim from a press release for large scale wireless network solutions. It begins:

GoRemote Internet Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: GRIC) today further extended its leadership...

Panera bread is held up as a great success story for this technology. The only mention the article makes about Panera actually being the largest wi-fi provider is the following:

"Panera Bread (Nasdaq: PNRA) is the largest provider of free Wi-Fi Internet access in the United States with 575 bakery-cafes in 30 states currently offering the free service to our customers," said Panera Bread Chief Marketing Officer Michael Markowitz.

So what Slashdot, we are to believe that Panera is the largest provider because their head marketing troll says so? Jesus, have a little journalistic integrity.