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Building a better telecom system

July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | 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

July 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 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 ...


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 ...


Motorola's Cost-Effective Wireless Ethernet Bridge Enables Connectivity Almost Anywhere

July 16, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

Motorola today announced its new Wireless Ethernet Bridge – the PTP 300 Series. This solution provides enterprises and government agencies with carrier class connectivity while offering a strong return on investment compared ...


Beyond 3G, communications services of the future

July 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(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 ...


Cellular annoyance

June 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

Annoying mobile communications abroad
The results of a multi-national survey to be published in the International Journal of Mobile Communications reveals some surprises about cell phone ...


NXP Launches The World’s Fastest Cellular Modem

June 12, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today announced the world's fastest high-bandwidth cellular soft modem - Nexperia Cellular System Solution PNX6910. Powered by NXP's Embedded Vector ...


Whole proves to be mightier than the parts

June 11, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

European researchers have developed solutions to help weld a mishmash of different technologies, protocols and system architectures, making it easier to run research and education networks.


Dartmouth launches network security study

June 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

A team of Dartmouth researchers is preparing to launch a project that examines the campus wireless computer traffic in an effort to learn how the network is used and how to best maintain its security. The ...


Open Patent Alliance Formed to Advance WiMAX 4G Technology

June 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

To accelerate the widespread adoption and deployment of WiMAX technology and products, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Clearwire, Intel Corporation, Samsung Electronics and Sprint today announced the formation of the Open Patent Alliance ...


Messaging without barriers

May 28, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Millions of people exchange electronic messages every day, but users of different systems often can’t reach each other. New European research promises to put them all in touch.


Broadband access opens doors to networking, economic development for rural areas

May 19, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Proactive policies are needed to facilitate broadband Internet access and adoption in rural areas so that rural hospitals, schools and businesses can drive social and economic development and better position themselves to ...


Weather, waves and wireless: Super strength signalling

May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | User comments: 1

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 ...


LG and Samsung Join Forces to Develop Mobile Digital TV Standard

May 14, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics, which together lead the global digital TV market, announced today that they will propose their jointly developed technology as the North American technology standard for mobile DTV.


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) | User comments: 13

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.


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