News tagged with electronic communications


Password-protected comments off limits to boss, jury rules

Technology / Internet

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

In a time when chat rooms, social networking and online forums are commonplace, how far can a company go in monitoring them for negative comments from discontented employees before they are guilty of "cybersnooping"?





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International Energy Agency chief Nobuo Tanaka

IEA urges more energy-efficient gadgets

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The IEA world energy watchdog urged action on Wednesday to make computers, mobile phones and other devices more energy-efficient as the number of users worldwide soars.


E-Paper Display At Higashi-Ikebukuro Bus Stop

E-Paper Technology Has New Possibilities in Japan

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- On January 23, 2009 e-paper testing was started in Japan around Toshima Ward Office, which is just east of JR Ikebukuro Station. A wireless network was set up at the Toshima Life and Industry ...


Discovery sues Amazon.com over Kindle patent

Technology / Business

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Discovery Communications Inc. says the Kindle electronic book readers from Amazon.com Inc. violate a patent that Discovery registered in 2007. Discovery sued Amazon in Delaware on Tuesday.


New Web site promotes interoperable newborn screening data

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) today launched the Newborn Screening Coding and Terminology Guide, an important step toward efficient electronic exchange of standard newborn screening data. The new Web site was created ...


An international trade group representing wireless device makers is backing a drive to standardize audio and USB plugs

Mobile device makers want common earphone plugs

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An international trade group representing wireless device makers has announced it was backing a drive to standardize audio and USB plugs for laptops and other mobile gadgets.


Researchers mine the 'Terahertz gap'

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Research underway at the University of Leeds will provide a completely fresh insight into the workings of nano-scale systems, and enable advances in the development of nano-electronic devices for use in industry, medicine ...


A Greenpeace stands by an installation made from hazardous e-waste in New Delhi

'Catastrophic' e-waste fuels global toxic dump

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

A "catastrophic accumulation" of dozens of millions of tonnes of "e-waste" from computers, cellphones and television sets is fuelling a global pile of hazardous waste, an international body warned Friday.


New nanotech research to enhance future digital imaging

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A team of researchers from Northeastern’s Electronic Materials Research Institute has published research that has resulted in a new breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, the study of light at the nanoscale level.


People test a Kindle 2

Amazon files patent suit against Discovery

Technology / Business

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

US online retail giant Amazon has filed a lawsuit against Discovery Communications alleging it infringed four of Amazon's e-commerce patents, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.


NTU team studies world's fastest satellite Internet connection

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In disaster-struck areas where terrestrial communications may be down, the deployment of rescue teams becomes extremely challenging. A team led by Assistant Professor Lee Yee Hui from the School of Electrical and Electronic ...



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