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Review: Bookmark for public radio saves your place (AP)

Review: Bookmark for public radio saves your place

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- I'm sort of a public radio junkie, so if I'm in my car and the kids haven't usurped the radio dial, I'm likely tuned to "Morning Edition," "Marketplace" or "Fresh Air." Unfortunately, my short daily ...





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Toward world's smallest radio: nano-sized detector turns radio waves into music

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 17, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (42) | comments 0

Researchers in California today report development of the world’s first working radio system that receives radio waves wirelessly and converts them to sound signals through a nano-sized detector made of carbon nanotubes.


Online radio stations strike big deal on royalties

Technology / Internet

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The future of Internet radio appears more secure after a handful of online stations reached an agreement Tuesday to head off a potentially crippling increase in copyright royalty rates.


Weather, waves and wireless: Super strength signalling

Technology / Telecom

created May 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | 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 ...


EU picks two operators for satellite services to remote areas

Technology / Telecom

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The European Commission announced on Thursday that Inmarsat Ventures and Solaris Mobile had been chosen to beam high-speed Internet services to rural and remote areas in Europe not connected to existing networks.


Micro-blogging sensation Twitter plans to begin dabbling this year with ways to pump cash

Twitter to try money-making methods

Technology / Internet

created Mar 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Micro-blogging sensation Twitter plans to begin dabbling this year with ways to pump cash from the fast-growing free service.


XM's Canadian Partner Licensed To Offer Satellite Radio Service In Canada

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created Jun 21, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

XM Satellite Radio announced Thursday that its Canadian partner, Canadian Satellite Radio (CSR), has been granted a broadcasting license from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to deliver ...


New radio chip mimics human ear, could enable universal radio

New radio chip mimics human ear, could enable universal radio (w/Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (23) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio ...


Conflicting signals can confuse rescue robots

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 02, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sensor-laden robots capable of vital search and rescue missions at disaster sites are no figment of a science fiction writer's imagination. Prototypes and commercial models of urban search and rescue (US&R) robots will soon ...


Stern's threat to quit Sirius could be empty talk (AP)

Stern's threat to quit Sirius could be empty talk

Technology / Business

created 19 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) --Howard Stern is threatening to leave Sirius XM Radio Inc. now that the shock jock and the satellite radio provider are getting set to enter contract talks in 2010.


Breakthrough for post-4G communications

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With much of the mobile world yet to migrate to 3G mobile communications, let alone 4G, European researchers are already working on a new technology able to deliver data wirelessly up to 12.5Gb/s.



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