Remains of the Day: Wi-Fi Sees Through Walls Edition [For What It's Worth]

Here’s a quick look at the news that hit our radar that didn’t quite make the front page today.

• Why Email No Longer Rules…
  People love to declare the end of things, and the Wall Street Journal is calling it a day for email. We all still use it all the time, of course, and sensational or not, email at the very least has more healthy alternatives than ever. [WSJ]
• Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication
  Written in response to the above article about the end of email, TechCrunch suggests that Google Wave is making a lot of headway addressing some of the problems with email. [TechCrunch]
• Wireless Network Signals Produce See-Through Walls
  A couple of electrical engineering researchers see through walls with the help of a wireless network grid. [Wired]
• T-Mobile Lets Furious Sidekick Users Ditch Their Contracts for Free
  This weekend T-Mobile acknowledged that they’d lost a whole lot of their user’s data for good, and today they’re allowing anyone to leave their contract for free to make amends. [Gizmodo]
• New in Google Squared: quality improvements, sorting and exporting
  Google’s Wolfram Alpha-alike, the so-far less useful Google Squared, has rolled out a lot of improvements, including more data and the ability to export data. [Official Google Blog]
• External GPS for iPod and iPhone
  You’ll need to be adventurous and willing to shell out for a Bluetooth GPS module to get it going, but if you really want to add GPS functionality to your iPod touch—it looks like you can do just that. [Hack a Day]
• Sex, conference calls, and outdated FCC rules
  Google responds to AT&T’s claim that Google Voice is unfairly blocking calls to numbers the telecom giant is FCC-required to accept. [Google Public Policy Blog]