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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) | No comments yet

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) | User comments: 1

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 ...


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) | No comments yet

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) | No comments yet

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 ...


UM gets only US lab for WiMAX next generation wireless apps

May 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

The University of Maryland will be the home to North America's first, and the world's second, laboratory endorsed by the WiMAX Forum and dedicated to creating applications for WiMAX, a next generation technology for Web and ...


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 ...


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.


Wireless networks that build themselves

March 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 1

From traffic lights to mobile phones, small computers are all around us. Enabling these ‘embedded systems’ to create wireless communications networks automatically will have profound effects in areas from emergency management ...


Cell Phone of the Future Saves Lives

October 20, 2006 | User rating: 2.3 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | No comments yet

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) | User comments: 1

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 ...


Internet via power lines set to launch

July 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

A plan to offer consumers Internet access through their home's power lines may soon come to fruition for residents of Grand Ledge, Mich.


Professor researches cell phone usage among college students

February 26, 2007 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | No comments yet

Cell phones are commonplace fixture in United States culture these days, but a recent Virginia Tech survey reveals not only whom college students are talking to, but also for how long, and from where they converse.


Double antennas deliver double the signal

November 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

Digital TV transmission techniques that deliver most benefit in the worst reception environments have been developed by a consortium of European researchers. The technologies promise to reduce the network infrastructure needed ...


Tech File: HD Radio

July 05, 2006 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 19 vote(s) | No comments yet

Most radio listeners can't turn on the radio these days without hearing a commercial about this new finagled thing called HD Radio. While the commercials may peak curiosity, they don't tell much about what HD Radio is, so ...


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