The Final 'Final' Nail in WEP's Coffin? April 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Wireless security protocol, WEP, is everywhere in Wi-Fi networks and just got quicker and easier for hackers to break into. | |
Bill tackles so-called new piracy frontier May 15, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A new House bill seeks to further protect the music industry from piracy by limiting the ability to record digital radio broadcasts, singling out satellite radio industry competitors XM Radio and Sirius. | |
 Multi-gigabit wireless research could make wired computers and peripherals obsolete July 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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New research at the Georgia Institute of Technology could soon make that tangle of wires under desks and in data centers a thing of the past. | |
NTT DoCoMo Achieves World's First 5Gbps Packet Transmission in 4G Field Experiment February 09, 2007 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it achieved a maximum packet transmission rate of approximately 5Gbps in the downlink using 100MHz frequency bandwidth to a mobile station moving at 10km/h. The field experiment of fourth-generation ... | |
 Internet at warp speed, captain! November 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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The ultra-high data speeds possible on optical fibre networks will only come into their own when the fibres reach the last mile into everyone’s home. But that will require miniaturisation and integration of ... | |
 Swiss researchers test high-speed WLAN network March 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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According to the communication theory, only a limited amount of data can be transmitted within a given bandwidth for wireless communication. Ever since these limits were revealed 60 years ago, we have been ... | |
Researchers achieve transmission rates of 107 Gbits per second over a single fiber channel December 20, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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In cooperation with Micram, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut) and Eindhoven Technical University, Siemens has successfully tested the network of the future. This involved the 100% electrical ... | |
Stealth Attack Drains Cell Phone Batteries August 24, 2006 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Cell phones that can send or receive multimedia files could be targeted by an attack that stealthily drains their batteries, leaving cellular communications networks useless, according to computer security researchers at ... | |
 Combined Expertise to Bring Wireless HDTV and Movies to Consumers October 23, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
IBM and MediaTek Inc. today launch a joint initiative to develop ultra fast chipsets that can wirelessly transmit a full-length high definition movie to and from a home PC, hand-held device, retail kiosk or ... | |
 Spotting tomorrow's forest fires August 01, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A wimax-based connection to the internet enables fire-monitoring efforts in remote and mountainous regions. | |
Wireless World: Love, Mom May 12, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
This Mother's Day, show mom you really care. Send her a text message -- with love. Experts tell UPI's Wireless World that increasingly, moms are using text messaging and mobile phones to manage their communications with family ... | |
Weather, waves and wireless: Super strength signalling May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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A new study from the University of Leicester has discovered a particular window of time when mobile signals and radio waves are ‘super strength’ – allowing them to be clearer and travel greater distances, potentially interfering ... | |
Report: U.S. broadband speed outdated June 26, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
So-called high-speed Internet broadband connection speeds are "pathetic" compared with other industrialized nations, a communications union report claimed. | |
Cell Phone of the Future Saves Lives October 20, 2006 | User rating: 2.4 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of South Florida’s Center for Urban Transportation Research and Department of Computer Science and Engineering are working on cell phone applications that can help keep you safer, tell you when ... | |
Wireless in the Sky: Hearst Builds Tower of the Future March 19, 2007 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Media icon Hearst has built a 46-story, 856,000-square-foot structure designed to utilize the latest wireless technology. Hearst's new tower, with its diamond-shaped windows and distinctive triangular frame, cuts a unique ... | |
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