wifi

If you are one of those lucky folks who have managed to get their hands on the hugely discounted HP TouchPad, you will sure be amused by this.

The team over at CyanogenMod has managed to get a step closer to porting Google’s Android to run on the WebOS tablet.

Skype WiFi is a new app for iPhone and iPad that lets you pay for internet access by the minute rather than by the hour or day.

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WiFi has been a godsend to home networking users, but it doesn't always work for everyone. If you're in a situation where WiFi just doesn't give you enough bandwidth, here's a look at the home networking alternatives.

Linux.com: "The holiday season is upon us, and you know what that means: relatives coming over wanting to use your WiFi.

If you'd like to find a solution somewhere between "run an open, unsecured AP" and "hand out your WPA2 password to people who write things like that down on sticky notes" then setting up a captive portal is a convenient option."

Google's "Street View" cars collected information broadcast over unsecured home and business wireless computer networks in Connecticut and kept the information.

In the blog post that Google published

Google's roaming Street View cameras have been doing more than snapping pics of your neighborhood; they've also been collecting packets of information.

For a while the complaints used to be about Apple's totally arbitrary process for choosing which apps get into the iPhone app store, but lately the complaints have been about Apple (again totally arbitrarily) removing apps that were already there.

WiFi Planet: "In response, we've put together this new tutorial series. In the first part, we offered a helpful overview of wireless bridges and repeaters.

In this second installment, we get down to the nitty gritty."