Ever found yourself without a signal and wished you could just spray one on like magic? Well, maybe soon, you’ll be able to do just that. Chamtech Enterprises has developed a spray-on antenna it says is more lightweight and energy-efficient than current technology. Revealed at Google’s inaugural Solve for X shindig, the antenna can be “painted” onto almost anything, including trees, walls and fabrics. Chamtech’s already talking with government-based customers, and as such can’t spill too much detail on how it works, but said it uses organic elements to tinker with magnetic and radio-frequency fields. The start-up’s CTO, Rhett Spencer, claims the antenna could increase mobile energy efficiency by 10 percent. It was also found to work particularly well under water, and being organic, we presume, would make it ideal for sub-aquatic telecom infrastructure, and of course, rainy days.

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Things are looking up at Clearwire, its Q4 revenue came in just over Wall Street’s estimates at 2 million, split between 8 million retail and 4 million wholesale — with the latter figure up 20 percent over the last quarter. It pointed a finger at increased smartphone usage and slashed operating costs (spending only million) as the reason for the bump. With this being Clearwire, it’s still in the business doldrums, relying on handouts from Sprint to keep it going. It’s planning to flog off around 0 million of debt to “qualified investors” as a way to ensure sufficient funding for the forthcoming LTE rollout. If you’re interested in this sort of thing, you can read the full breakdown after the interval, presumably storming around pretending that you’re Gordon Gekko.

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While the Occupy movement might be best known for its encampments and radical organizing strategies, it’s also inspired a new generation of protest songs. Here’s a selection.

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