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(AP) -- Verizon Communications Inc. said Monday its earnings grew 5 percent in the first quarter, boosted by its acquisition of Alltel Corp. and strong demand for its wireless, Internet and TV services. http://www.physorg.com/news160054256.html Technology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:31:34 EST news160054256 The Finnish government said Friday it has allocated extra frequencies to telecom firms TeliaSonera, Elisa and DNA to run the country's new, faster fourth-generation (4G) mobile network. http://www.physorg.com/news159797115.html Technology Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:06:40 EST news159797115 US wireless technology titan Qualcomm delayed the release of its quarterly results on Wednesday, saying it was in "advanced" settlement talks with Broadcom over a long-running patent dispute. http://www.physorg.com/news159647672.html Technology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:35:01 EST news159647672 An obscure federal program that helps poor people pay for phone service is entering the wireless era. Cell phone companies are offering the needy a bargain that the rest of us can only dream about: free service. http://www.physorg.com/news159647092.html Electronics Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:25:20 EST news159647092 (AP) -- The next version of the Bluetooth wireless technology is expected to transfer data 10 times faster than the current incarnation. Gadgets using it could be on the market by early next year. http://www.physorg.com/news159642575.html Technology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:10:52 EST news159642575 Taiwan-based computer giant Acer on Wednesday launched a series of advanced mobile phones for the Asia-Pacific region, ramping up its expansion into the wireless communication market. http://www.physorg.com/news159599238.html Technology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:08:36 EST news159599238 (AP) -- As wireless carriers start reporting first-quarter results this week, investors will be looking at the effects of some spectacular price cuts for prepaid cell phone service. http://www.physorg.com/news159456790.html Technology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:33:33 EST news159456790 In a recent publication in Nature Photonics, a joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia International Physics Center DIPC, Centro de Física de Materiales of CSIC/UPV-EHU in San Sebastian (Spain), Harvard University (USA) and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich (Germany) reports an innovative method for controlling light on the nanoscale by adopting tuning concepts from radio-frequency technology. http://www.physorg.com/news159427096.html Physics Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:29:45 EST news159427096 Today, humans perform visual inspections every two years of most of the nation's older bridges. But with a scarcity of inspectors and tens of thousands of bridges, that process can be long and laborious. http://www.physorg.com/news159116064.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:55:04 EST news159116064 By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, working with colleagues in other federal labs and abroad, believe they have settled a long-standing debate over the source of the unique electronic properties of a material with potentially great importance for wireless communications. http://www.physorg.com/news158417087.html Physics Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:45:24 EST news158417087 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new, simpler programming language for wireless sensor networks is designed for easy use by geologists who might use them to monitor volcanoes and biologists who rely on them to understand birds' nesting behaviors, for example. Researchers at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University have written the language with the novice programmer in mind. http://www.physorg.com/news158255788.html Technology Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:57:19 EST news158255788 US wireless carrier T-Mobile plans to make a push into the home with communications devices that will run on Google's Android open-source software, The New York Times reported on Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news158246031.html Electronics Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:14:31 EST news158246031 Two US senators declared war on spam on Thursday. Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, and Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, introduced legislation aimed at curbing unsolicited text messages on mobile devices. http://www.physorg.com/news157952206.html Technology Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:45:43 EST news157952206 (PhysOrg.com) -- Mobile users want better video calls, streaming television and faster downloads, placing more demands on the limited radio spectrum available to operators. Could handsets that intelligently sense their radio environment and opportunistically grab free bandwidth be a solution? http://www.physorg.com/news157907427.html Technology Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:11:06 EST news157907427 (AP) -- Goodbye, numeric cell phone keypads. You're going the way of the rotary dial. Touch screens and QWERTY keyboards will take over from here, thank you. http://www.physorg.com/news157904578.html Electronics Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:25:04 EST news157904578 (AP) -- Amazon's Kindle might soon be getting new competitors in the market for electronic-book devices. http://www.physorg.com/news157819330.html Electronics Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:42:28 EST news157819330 (AP) -- As wireless carriers begin to subsidize computers that come with wireless Internet access, they're faced with a quandary: What do they do if the buyer stops paying his bills? http://www.physorg.com/news157716396.html Electronics Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:07:04 EST news157716396 Motorola, today introduced the H24, the latest addition to its Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions portfolio. The new HSPA wireless module was designed to meet the M2M industry`s growing need for high-speed 3.5G connectivity. The HSPA series of modules is comprised of the H24-Global, providing tri-band HSPA connectivity (850/1900/2100MHz); H24-Single (2100MHz); and H24-NA (850/1700/1900MHz). http://www.physorg.com/news157643957.html Technology Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:00:18 EST news157643957 Skype has confirmed that a free software application enabling iPhone owners to use its Internet telephone service will be available in Apple's online App Store beginning Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news157638358.html Electronics Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:26:25 EST news157638358 (AP) -- T-Mobile USA is opening up its new cellular broadband network to laptops for the first time, with Wednesday's launch of a USB "dongle" that lets portable computers get wireless Internet access. http://www.physorg.com/news157186964.html Technology Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:03:10 EST news157186964 (PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a platoon of soldiers fighting in a hazardous urban environment who carry personal digital assistants that can display the location of enemy shooters in three dimensions and accurately identify the caliber and type of weapons they are firing. http://www.physorg.com/news157123967.html Technology Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:33:19 EST news157123967 China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone network operator, said Thursday its profits jumped by 30 percent last year, but warned China's telecoms market faced a tough 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news156664715.html Technology Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:59:07 EST news156664715 (AP) -- Phone companies fear that customers will increasingly switch off their landlines in favor of wireless phones or phone service from cable TV providers. So the last thing FairPoint Communications Inc. needed was to send subscribers fleeing with a botched technical transfer. http://www.physorg.com/news156094215.html Technology Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:30:48 EST news156094215 (AP) -- A one-eyed documentary filmmaker is preparing to work with a video camera concealed inside a prosthetic eye, hoping to secretly record people for a project commenting on the global spread of surveillance cameras. http://www.physorg.com/news155989930.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:32:40 EST news155989930 University of Texas (UT) professor, Dean Neikirk, will be field-testing a new bridge monitoring system within the year. The project is a collaboration between industry, government, and academia that will provide real-time monitoring of dangerous bridges and reduce inspection costs for all bridges. http://www.physorg.com/news154614946.html Technology Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:36:24 EST news154614946 (PhysOrg.com) -- New imaging and high capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality, thanks to a millimeter wave amplifier invented at the University of California, San Diego and unveiled on Feb 11, 2009 at the prestigious International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, Calif. http://www.physorg.com/news153582213.html Technology Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:45:00 EST news153582213 Following a rollover automobile accident, driver and passengers are usually unable to call for help. So, unless the accident occurs on a busy road, rescue is unlikely to arrive in time to save them. Writing in the International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems, US researchers describe SAVE, which could solve that problem and reduce deaths on the roads. http://www.physorg.com/news153418785.html Technology Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:20:42 EST news153418785 One of the toughest technological challenges for law enforcement is to simultaneously monitor live feeds from the wireless cameras scattered across their jurisdictions. A nearly impossible task under any circumstances, it was an even greater one for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration. http://www.physorg.com/news152988620.html Technology Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:50:50 EST news152988620 Nothing kills innovation like having to reinvent the wheel. Imagine how dull your diet would be if you had to build a new stove and hammer out a few cooking pots every time you wanted to test a new recipe. Until just a couple of years ago, electronics researchers testing new high-speed wireless technologies faced just this sort of problem; they had to build every test system completely from scratch. http://www.physorg.com/news152470346.html Technology Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:52:47 EST news152470346 (PhysOrg.com) -- The systems that let you zap a photo to a friend, or an astronomer to control a telescope continents away, require intensive simulation and testing. Research has now made those key steps far easier. http://www.physorg.com/news152379315.html Technology Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:36:09 EST news152379315