Technology Insider

Jul 24, 2012

This Week's Top Story

Mobile

Devicescape: Profiting From Other People's Wi-Fi

The Silicon Valley company eases data traffic by tapping into public hotspots

More Top Stories

Scott Thompson on Life After Yahoo

After a quick, humbling departure from Yahoo, and a fight with thyroid cancer, Scott Thompson returns with a smaller, private tech firm

The New Smartphone Powerhouse: Huawei

The Chinese hardware maker is poised to be No. 3 in smartphones

Science & Research

The Robots Have Already Won (at Roshambo)

An extremely dexterous and tricky Japanese robot has proven unbeatable at rock-paper-scissors-with potentially significant industrial applications

McDonald's Staffers See Red Over Prof's Digital Eyewear

An engineering professor says employees of one Paris McDonald's had a problem with his custom-built 'vision system'

Joe Sumner: Synchronizing Crowdsourced Movies

Sting's son has a startup that stitches together crowdsourced video to make movies

Chinese Protesters See Greater Online Freedom About the Environment

China appears to be taking a softer stance toward regulating online discussion of such issues as pollution and food safety

To Recruit Techies, Companies Offer Unlimited Vacation

Open-ended vacation policies are catching on in Silicon Valley

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This week in Technology Insider

Welcome to the Tech Insider. This week, Peter Burrows looks at Devicescape, a company that helps carriers such as MetroPCS Communications relay wireless data traffic onto nearby Wi-Fi networks. The Silicon Valley company has assembled a database of more than 8 million “unsecured’ wireless routers, owned by coffee shops, cities, and other entities that have either intentionally made them available to the public, or not gotten around to setting up a password to keep freeloaders out. We also have stories on Huawei Technologies, Yahoo!, and start-ups that offer workers unlimited vacations. Enjoy!

Olga Kharif