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Cisco and British telecom giant BT Group on Wednesday announced a partnership aimed at a growing hunger by businesses worldwide for Internet-based communications services. http://www.physorg.com/news179607463.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:30:02 EST news179607463 A ubiquitous health monitoring system that automatically alerted the patient's family or physician to problematic changes in the person's vital signs could cut hospital visits and save lives, according to Japanese researchers writing in the International Journal of Web and Grid Services. http://www.physorg.com/news179590018.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:50:03 EST news179590018 India's government has missed a deadline for inviting bidders to take part in its long-awaited auction for third generation (3G) mobile telecom services. http://www.physorg.com/news179588385.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:00:04 EST news179588385 (AP) -- Wireless data hogs who jam the airwaves by watching video on their iPhones will be put on tighter leashes, an AT&T Inc. executive said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news179589109.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:53:30 EST news179589109 (AP) -- The chief executive of Time Warner Cable Inc. offers this warning to Comcast Corp. on its purchase of a controlling stake in NBC Universal: Mixing content and distribution is harder to accomplish than it looks. http://www.physorg.com/news179512608.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:50:04 EST news179512608 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists in California and elsewhere are deliberately setting out to compromise the mobile phone system used by around three billion people. The system uses Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) encryption technology to prevent eavesdropping. http://www.physorg.com/news179479214.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:50:01 EST news179479214 (PhysOrg.com) -- A cheap way to deliver interactive communications to remote communities has been successfully tested in Brazil and Italy. http://www.physorg.com/news179471109.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:20:01 EST news179471109 (AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission on Friday asked Verizon Wireless why it recently doubled the fees it charges customers when they break their contracts on "smart" phones. http://www.physorg.com/news179171423.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:30:01 EST news179171423 (AP) -- The 2010 World Cup is going 3-D. Sony Corp. said Friday it has signed a deal with FIFA, the international football governing body, to record up to 25 World Cup games in 3-D - a technology that gives viewers an illusion of depth on the screen. http://www.physorg.com/news179117888.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:20:02 EST news179117888 (AP) -- Comcast Corp. is buying control of NBC Universal from GE largely because Comcast wants to own more movies and TV shows. The point is to give it a position of strength if fewer people sign up for its cable TV services and watch more video online. http://www.physorg.com/news179117964.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:59:51 EST news179117964 Mark Morgenthaler wants nothing more than to hire 15 people to help expand his wireless Internet service, Surfnet Communications in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He can't wait to start accepting applications, interviewing candidates, and making job offers. http://www.physorg.com/news179052810.html Technology - Telecom Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:20:01 EST news179052810 (AP) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. is giving up on a technology that allows some Sprint-branded phones to use a "push-to-talk" walkie-talkie service similar to what's available on the company's Nextel-branded phones. http://www.physorg.com/news178824354.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:40:01 EST news178824354 Owners of Roku's digital video player will soon have a bunch more channels to choose from. http://www.physorg.com/news178462170.html Technology - Telecom Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:10:03 EST news178462170 (AP) -- The European Parliament has endorsed new telecom rules that would give phone and Internet users more rights and allow them to appeal to national courts if they are cut off for illegal file-sharing. http://www.physorg.com/news178374890.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:50:02 EST news178374890 On September 11, firefighters, police officers and ambulance workers faced a terrifying rescue effort in the World Trade Center complex. They battled to save people from the collapsing Twin Towers, searched for survivors, tackled fires and evacuated as many people as they could in an area which contained an estimated 17,000 people. And making their jobs even harder was the problem of poor communications: frightened workers and their relatives jammed mobile networks with calls and the emergency services' own radio communications turned out to be incompatible with one another. http://www.physorg.com/news178369250.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:10:01 EST news178369250 South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said. http://www.physorg.com/news178349448.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:32:56 EST news178349448 Multimedia services will surpass text messaging this year as the main source of mobile operators' non-voice revenue in the Asia-Pacific region, industry analyst IDC said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news178183201.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:30:01 EST news178183201 If you've ever gotten the dreaded "network busy" message while trying to make a cell phone call, you've experienced the complication of sharing a single network with numerous other users. http://www.physorg.com/news177692830.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:08:04 EST news177692830 Swindon has become the first place in Britain to offer free wireless Internet access to all its 186,000 residents, in what is thought to be the first such scheme, officials said on Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177674728.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:20:03 EST news177674728 Sezmi, a Silicon Valley startup that's pioneering a new type of TV service, is opening up a public test of its system Monday in California. http://www.physorg.com/news177668418.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:30:03 EST news177668418 (AP) -- Ralph Roberts knew he was onto something big when people ran after his cable TV trucks in Tupelo, Miss., asking for a visit to their homes. http://www.physorg.com/news177615078.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:50:03 EST news177615078 (AP) -- Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast television's decline. http://www.physorg.com/news177592539.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:40:02 EST news177592539 Q. The other day, my Internet service went down as it does from time to time. But this particular time, I needed to check my e-mail for an important reply I was expecting. After some frustrating time passed, I happened to notice that there was a Wi-Fi signal available. I have no idea to whom the service belonged but I suspected it belonged to one of my neighbors. It had a generic name of "NETGEAR" and it was unlocked. I decided to see if it was accessible and it was. I was able to check my e-mail and download the important document that was attached to it. Now my question to you is if I did anything wrong by using my neighbor's unlocked Wi-Fi signal to get my email and do a little web surfing afterward. http://www.physorg.com/news177157733.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:10:01 EST news177157733 Smart phones -- like BlackBerrys and iPhones -- have become indispensable to today's highly mobile workforce and tech-savvy youngsters. While these devices keep friends and colleagues just a few thumb-taps away, they also pose new security and privacy risks. http://www.physorg.com/news177089641.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:20:01 EST news177089641 (AP) -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places. http://www.physorg.com/news177084145.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:40:02 EST news177084145 (PhysOrg.com) -- NICTA, Australia`s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, has successfully demonstrated technology that reduces the amount of radio interference in 3G networks with femtocells. http://www.physorg.com/news177060560.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:02 EST news177060560 (AP) -- Wireless provider T-Mobile USA Inc. says it has cleared up service problems that were interfering with calls and text messaging for about 5 percent of its customers. http://www.physorg.com/news176533519.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:05:49 EST news176533519 (AP) -- AT&T Inc. is suing Verizon Wireless over its competitor's "There's a Map for That" commercials, saying in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the ads are misleading and amount to deceptive trade practices. http://www.physorg.com/news176526671.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:20:01 EST news176526671 Mobile operator China Unicom said Tuesday it aimed to boost the number of its 3G mobile phone subscribers in China by one million per month, following its launch of Apple's iPhone there. http://www.physorg.com/news176449634.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:47:50 EST news176449634 Tom Chirhart knows a lot about radios, but over the last year, he's gotten a real life lesson in supply and demand. http://www.physorg.com/news176403565.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:20:01 EST news176403565