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BlackBerry e-mail restored for some after outage
Dec 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- BlackBerry e-mail service in North America was restored for some users Wednesday morning following its second outage in less than a week.
What connects the elderly and sports people? Smart sensor technology
Dec 24, 2009 |
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Innovative smart sensing devices promise to boost mobility and quality of life for the elderly, reduce healthcare costs and even give sports people an edge through more effective training.
Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech synthesizer. The "thought-to-speech" ...
Efficient new wireless system can save 10 percent of bandwidth
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Driven by fast-growing use of smart phones and Internet videos, wireless communication among Americans is expanding so rapidly that a tsunami of megabytes could soon threaten to overwhelm the bandwidth available.
Next-generation Intel products to be launched in January; Include first 32-nm Core i3, i5 processors
Dec 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel has announced it will launch over two dozen new products next month, including new processors, chipsets, and a number of wireless components.
Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute ...
GSM system about to be compromised
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor
Dec 15, 2009 |
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For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness. ...
Biden unveils federal broadband stimulus projects
Dec 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the first $182 million in federal stimulus money for 18 projects to expand high-speed Internet networks in rural areas and other underserved communities.
Review: Netbooks meet luxury in ultra-light Sony
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Netbooks have been a hit among laptop buyers because they're cheap and they're easy to carry. Now there's the option to pay a lot more and get a lot less - a lot less weight, that is.
Device connected to tongue designed to help blind perceive images
Dec 15, 2009 |
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An experimental device that uses the tongue instead of the eyes to "see" could be on the market next year, and a blind Fresno, Calif., teen hopes to be among the first to take one home.
Google tests new phone to profit from mobile Web
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is determined to gain more influence over how the Web is used on mobile phones, even if the next step in the quest tramples some of the relationships forged during its two-year expansion ...
Netbooks start raising the stakes
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 18, 2009 |
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The standard desktop computer is about as popular as swine flu these days, with all the major innovations happening in the laptop and netbook segment.
Verizon Wireless to FCC: smart phones more costly
Dec 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Verizon Wireless says it started charging customers more to break service contracts for smart phones because those devices cost much more.
AT&T to release cellphone with optional projector
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 01, 2009 |
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If cellphones with built-in video projectors are going to take the country by storm, then Dallas will be at the eye of the hurricane.
