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"Meet the workers making $1.20 an hour "microtasking" for billion-dollar brands like Microsoft and Amazon--right here in the US."

Gizmodo neatly summarizes all the things SmartGlass is capable of. Second screen? Check. Additional game controller? Check. "Remote control for the Internet"? Check. SmartGlass enables all these features and more. And in doing so, it makes an extremely compelling case for why the Xbox 360 should be the anchor of your living room, and by extension, of your gadget-driven life. Which brings me back to why I want a Windows tablet.

A radio from Neul-or one of several startups working on similar technology-upends this whole system. An adaptive radio doesn't always use the same fixed frequency but checks to see which frequencies around it aren't in use, then borrows empty air for a short-term connection. As devices move around, the connection can shift, too. Collier's loop around Cambridge is a demonstration-part of a trial led by Microsoft (MSFT) and other tech giants-that the idea works technologically. If it works commercially, too, it could change the dynamics of the wireless business.

Extracts from Mobile Innovation Economics

However, when you stand back from all the announcements made by Google today and increase the periphery, you start to notice that this is a company that is fighting a lot of battles on many fronts. In some places it is winning, but most places it is trench warfare.

"Bientôt dépassé, le WiFi? Les États-Unis commencent à tester une nouvelle technologie sans fil, un «super WiFi» plus puissant et de plus longue portée, qui pourrait notamment apporter l'internet à haut débit dans les zones rurales."