piggybacking
What does Google's Chrome OS mean for Android?
News Google is] piggybacking on the momentum of Linux and also building that momentum so it's a nice win-win situation here," he said, adding: "In the netbook-as-a-would-be-laptop space here, Google [Chrome OS] allows/gives... [09 Jul 2009]
Inbox: Brits ditching mobiles? Fat chance
Comment First, how exactly will these meters communicate with the energy provider, will they use existing networks piggybacking on the home broadband, if so, how much bandwidth will they use? The weekly Inbox column collects the... [18 May 2009]
Photo: Policing the depths of the Tube
Photo The project saved cash by piggybacking Airwave capabilities on the existing Connect digital trunk system, used for communication by Transport for London workers on London Underground, rather then building a entirely new... [14 Jan 2009]
Dynamic Software Updates for Java: A VM-Centric Approach
White Paper By piggybacking on classloading and garbage collection, JVOLVE can flexibly support additions and replacements of fields and methods anywhere within the class hierarchy, and in a manner that may alter class signatures. [03 Jan 2009]
Building a Robust Linux Kernel Piggybacking the Linux Test Project
White Paper The Linux kernel is growing at a rapid rate and runs across many architectures and platforms; ensuring that the kernel is reliable, robust and stable is very critical. The Linux Test Project (LTP) was established to meet the very goals... [01 Oct 2008]
Inbox: iPhone ad, red boxes, wi-fi piggybacking, sci-fi thinking
Comment And lastly wi-fi piggybacking - acceptable? The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought provoking reader comments that silicon.com receives each week. Readers were in disagreement over a story on... [04 Sep 2008]
Warning over wi-fi 'piggybackers'
News According to a survey by moneysupermarket.com, a large number of Brits are exposed to 'piggybacking' - where broadband users connect to someone else's wireless router to gain access to the internet - which can lead to... [29 Aug 2008]
Femtocells to save mobile operators over $5bn?
News It expects more than 40 million of the broadband-piggybacking indoor base station devices will be deployed by the end of 2013 - and reckons this installed base could help operators offload up to eight per cent of total... [13 Aug 2008]
Femtocells to speed arrival of next-gen mobile networks?
News Industry association body the Femto Forum and operator community group the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance have announced they will work together to ensure the DSL-piggybacking tech works with next... [30 Jun 2008]
Adaptive Correctness Monitoring for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Hierarchical Distributed Run-Time Invariant Checking
White Paper H-SEND is able to detect a large class of faults in data gathering WSNs and leverages the existing message flow in the network by buffering and piggybacking messages. This paper presents a hierarchical approach for... [11 Apr 2008]
Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts?
News Risks associated with remote workers include opening suspicious emails, piggybacking on unsecured wireless networks and sharing corporate devices with non-employees. Concern over 'risky' remote workers is fuelling... [11 Mar 2008]
What's hot at Mobile World Congress 2008?
News Analysts have been touting femtocells as a tech to watch this year, so interest in what broadband-piggybacking can offer the cellular world will certainly be high. The 2008 Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona on... [07 Feb 2008]
Femtocells coming to a home near you?
News Femtocell technology - which boosts 3G network coverage indoors by piggybacking on a broadband connection - could find its way into tens of millions of homes in Western Europe in two years' time. Five mobile trends to... [23 Jan 2008]
Top 10 security stories of the year
News Other topics to hit the security headlines in 2007 included wi-fi piggybacking, encryption technology and calls for a standalone police unit to tackle the ever more sophisticated world of cyber crime. [13 Dec 2007]
Stories of the month - November 2007
News Cochrane wasn't the only one to get hot under the collar, topics which got silicon.com readers fired up in November included suggestions of a cashless revolution and the legislation surrounding wi-fi piggybacking. [29 Nov 2007]