News tagged with rugged phone

Motorola phone talks a tough game

For some people, a phone is just a phone. They don't need e-mail, a Web browser or a camera. They just want to make a call. And the last thing they want to worry about is what will happen to a phone that's dropped or gets ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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Russia brings astronauts safely back to Earth

Three astronauts landed safely in the Kazakh steppe aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule on Tuesday after a stay of over five months aboard the International Space Station, Russian mission control said.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

FCC set to unveil rules for rural broadband fund

Federal regulators are set to reveal their plan Thursday for an overhaul of the $8 billion fund that subsidizes phone service in rural areas and for the poor, with the goal of redirecting the money toward broadband expansion.

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

$103M to expand broadband Internet in rural US

Telecommunications companies in 16 states will share more than $103 million in federal funding to help expand broadband Internet access to those areas of rural America that haven't been reached by the high-speed service or ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 10

On endless ice, searching for clues to our future

(AP) -- The pilot eased his five-ton helicopter toward the glacier's rumpled surface, aiming for the lightest of setdowns atop one of the fastest-flowing ice streams on Earth.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 19

The New Cultural Form: Perfection versus Mortality in Games and Simulation at Rensselaer

Willy Nilly’s Surf Shack offers a cure for the idealized virtual world of Second Life. The online shop, a project of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Associate Professor of Arts Ben Chang and collaborators, endows o ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stimulus funds help wire rural homes for Internet

(AP) -- Up in rural northern Vermont, it took until the 1960s to run power lines to some towns - decades after the rest of America got turned on.

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Mobile 'revolution' eases Pacific isolation, poverty

From the rugged highlands of Papua New Guinea to the remote islands of Tonga, a telecommunications revolution in the Pacific is helping ease poverty and isolation in some of the world's poorest countries.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 10, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tried and true gifts for tech lovers

This is no fantasy-league gift guide compiled from weekly sales fliers and the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Euro terror alert spotlights voiceprint technology

(AP) -- Did their voices betray them? The discovery of an alleged terror plot against Europe owes at least some of its success to "voiceprint" technology that allows law enforcement to electronically match ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Compact microscope a marvel

A compact microscope invented at Rice University is proving its potential to impact global health. In a paper published online today in the journal PLoS ONE, Rice alumnus Andrew Miller and co-authors show t ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1


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