The Register - Comms: WirelessBiting the hand that feeds ITUnmasking the Neighborhood Network Watch- April 24, 2008 Is it art or a plot to spy on America's Wi-Fi networks Emery Martin is a man on a mission. The 23 year-old resident of Brooklyn has spearheaded the Neighborhood Network Watch, a grassroots group advocating the monitoring by volunteers of open Wi-Fi networks "to make sure that terrorists may not be using your own home network to plan the next attack on our nation or your very own community".http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/24/neighborhood_network_watch... D-Link touts telly as remote PC screen- April 21, 2008 Windows over the WLAN Networking specialist D-Link today launched a gadget that lets you use your TV as your PC's display - remotely.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/21/dlink_touts_pc_on_tv/ Top-end Fords will be watching your rear- April 11, 2008 Blind-spot radar comes to wing mirrors Ford will offer blind-spot-checking radar using part of the 24GHz spectrum on US models starting early next year, though cheapskates might opt for the wing mirror with a bent corner instead.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/ford_radar/ WiMAX takes its place in the mobile broadband patchwork- April 9, 2008 Motorola takes the lead Much of the 4G picture remains cloudy, but one thing is clear the next generation of wireless networks will be based on the OFDMAMIMOIP combination shared by the most prominent contenders, LTE and Mobile WiMAX.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/09/wimax_mobile_broadband/ WiMAX is more of a crawl than a Sprint- April 3, 2008 Trials still not performing CTIA Wireless Sprint is running late on its WiMAX network, which will now go commercial in the summer, and not this month, as originally pencilled.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/zohm_delayed/ Third time lucky Google seeks open access in white spaces- April 3, 2008 Money in unexpected places The results of the US 700MHz auction were far from fulfilling Googles dreams of an open wireless network that would significantly boost unfettered internet usage across the airwaves, and so its own revenues.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/google_white_spaces/ Apple ignores Jesus Phone life raft- April 2, 2008 What's wrong with background apps CTIA Wireless For reasons unknown, Apple's new Jesus Phone SDK won't allow apps that run in the background. As many have noted, this rules out instant messaging - or, at least, instant messaging as we know it. But it also rules out all sorts of other useful applications, including the fledgling smartphone rescue tool from remote control maven LogMeIn.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/02/logmein_mobile_rescue_hits... Richard Branson dupes entire wireless industry with Google on Mars gag- April 2, 2008 'Virgle, my a' CTIA Wireless Speaking this morning (Tuesday) at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas, Sir Richard Branson told several hundred mobile industry insiders that he and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will soon fly a solar-powered Noah's Ark to Mars.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/02/google_branson_fly_to_mars... |