Electronics giants to create wireless HD standard 6 hours ago | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Sony, Samsung and other consumer-electronics heavyweights are uniting to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals wirelessly from a single set-top box to screens around the home. | |
Breaking up not so hard to do with Slydial 21 hours ago | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The old song had it right: Breaking up is hard to do. But a free new phone service called Slydial might make it easier to get through that and other awkward moments - without actually having to talk to anyone. | |
Building a better telecom system 21 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
Hurricane Katrina helped University of Texas professor, Alexis Kwasinski, formulate a new plan for the U.S. telecom system: a de-centralized power architecture that would have kept the lights and phones on in New Orleans. ... | |
 Saving lives with 10-kilo phone network 21 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A ten-kilo GSM mobile phone network developed by European researchers will allow rescue workers to set up communications just hours, or even minutes, after a man-made or natural catastrophe. It will mean more ... | |
 EU preparing to cap text message prices July 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
European mobile phone users could pay less to send cross-border text messages under plans the European Commission is preparing, fed-up that operators have left its calls to cut prices unanswered. | |
 Cell phone companies scramble to halt trafficking July 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- For less than $15, you can buy a cell phone loaded with minutes. You can buy more as you go whenever those minutes run out. Best of all, you aren't locked into a long-term contract. | |
 EU warns teenagers of mobile phone ring-tone rip-offs July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The European Commission warned children and teenagers on Thursday to beware of mobile telephone ring-tone scams after hundreds of Internet sites were found to be charging too much for the services. | |
 Verizon open network gets first, unsexy device July 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- When Verizon Wireless announced in November that it would open up its network to any company that wanted to make a device for it, industry watchers had visions of innovative features like cheap international ... | |
FCC chief hopes Comcast sanction serves as warning July 12, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- A recommendation to punish Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic should serve as a warning to other service providers, the nation's top telecommunications regulator said Friday. | |
 Beyond 3G, communications services of the future July 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Europe's telecommunications industry became the world leader in the 1990s. Now European researchers are working to maintain that lead by developing an innovative services platform for 'Beyond ... | |
FCC chief says Comcast violated Internet rules July 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation's largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet. | |
 New Dish Network satellite launched successfully July 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Sea Launch Co. has launched a new satellite for Dish Network Corp. | |
EU to rule on roaming price caps for mobile data July 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- European regulators are nearing a decision on whether to impose price caps on text messaging and mobile Internet use while traveling. | |
FTC enforces do-not-call rules, fines cos. $95,000 July 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Two telemarketing companies that sell Dish Network Corp.'s satellite TV services have agreed to pay fines of $95,000 for ignoring the federal do-not-call list and hanging up on customers, federal regulators said ... | |
Consortium Established to Develop 'TransferJet' Wireless Technology July 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Several major telecom giants today announced an agreement to form a consortium to develop specifications for "TransferJet" - a new interoperable wireless transfer technology that enables rapid transfer of high resolution ... | |
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