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Wireless World: What women want

May 05, 2006 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | No comments yet

Every year U.S. women spend $5 billion on magazines, movies and other lifestyle "content." Now, marketing experts tell UPI's Wireless World, the mobile-phone industry is eyeing the women's market as a new niche, hoping to ...


Networking: Investors eye power-line trend

June 12, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | No comments yet

Institutional and individual investors are eagerly examining prospects in the so-called broadband over power line (BPL) market and are helping finance proof-of-concept projects in the field, experts tell UPI's ...


The leading 'edge': plastic fibre slashes network costs

January 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 45 vote(s) | No comments yet

Plans in the 1990s to bring ultra-high speed telecom lines into every home foundered because the optical fibre infrastructure was just too expensive. But a new European project using plastic fibre and off-the-shelf ...


Samsung is Set to Demonstrate 4th Generation Mobile Technology

August 30, 2006 | User rating: 2.3 / 5 after 47 vote(s) | No comments yet

Samsung Electronics announced its plan to demonstrate 4th Generation (4G) mobile technology at the annual Samsung 4G Forum in Jeju Island, Korea for the first time in the world. Demonstration will take place ...


Professor researches cell phone usage among college students

February 26, 2007 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 12 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.


Multi-gigabit wireless research could make wired computers and peripherals obsolete

July 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 30 vote(s) | No comments yet

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) | 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 ...


Satellite debacle hits India's DTH plans

July 11, 2006 | User rating: 1.5 / 5 after 26 vote(s) | No comments yet

The failure of the launch of the Indian Space Research Organization's communications satellite INSAT-4C that was made to explode since it veered off course soon after launch Monday has come as a major setback for the country's ...


FCC Sets Digital TV Rules

April 27, 2007 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s) | No comments yet

The FCC adopts measures to ensure a smooth transition to DTV in 2009, which is necessary to free up the 700MHz band for wireless voice and data.


Booming business for call centers

May 26, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

With a booming call-center business in India, technology companies are focusing on complying with U.S. rules for offshore dialing and are finding themselves expanding into other countries -- kick-starting a new era in call-center ...


WiFi Alliance Announces 802.11n Draft-Certified Products

May 16, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

The 802.11n version of Wi-Fi promises to deliver higher speeds and greater reliability than earlier versions.


Interview: Voom HD, cutting edge of tele programming

April 28, 2006 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | No comments yet

Voom HD is the little network that's trying hard to push high-definition programming to the masses.


Globe Talk: Intel's WiMax push

May 26, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

From being able to go online at the local Starbucks to surfing the World Wide Web from an airport, there's no denying that once you get connected wirelessly, there's no going back.


Super-fast Internet connections with existing cable-TV networks

April 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | No comments yet

Demand for high-speed Internet access is forecast to grow sharply with the increasing availability of video on demand, teleworking and easier access to government services. However existing bandwidths will soon be inadequate ...


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 ...


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