Telecom reform boosts vid franchising May 02, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A rewrite in the Senate of the Telecommunications Act is under way, pushed by Monday's introduction of draft bill S. 26868, known as the Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006, from Senate ... | |
 Space scientist says texting is four times more expensive than receiving scientific data from space May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope. | |
Wireless Problems Played Part in Chaos at Virginia Tech April 18, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
According to carriers serving the Virginia Tech campus, the massive increase in wireless call volume during the April 16 shooting tragedy left many students unable to place a voice call or send text messages. | |
 Hook Your Car Up to the Internet March 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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If the thought of a long road trip without full Internet access makes you jittery, a new in-car Internet connection could fulfill your high-speed needs. | |
Wireless networks that build themselves March 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
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. | |
 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 One in two Chinese people uses mobile phone, report says June 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
Almost one in two Chinese people now has a mobile phone, while the number of fixed-line subscribers has fallen, state media reported Thursday. | |
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