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Grant awarded to improve the security of mobile devices and cellular networks

Grant awarded to improve the security of mobile devices and cellular networks

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Brighten up -- it's a new plastic optical fibre technology

Brighten up -- it's a new plastic optical fibre technology

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fibre or POF promises to revolutionise high-speed last-mile communications networks. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking ...


Low-tech tools take out phones in Silicon Valley (AP)

Low-tech tools take out phones in Silicon Valley

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Forget, for a moment, computer viruses and sophisticated cybercrimes. A hacksaw and a few other tools were probably all it took for someone to sever eight fiber-optic cables in Silicon Valley this ...





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EU assembly adopts Internet, phone user rights

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(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.


NJIT receives funding to improve Big Bear Telescope, study solar energy

NJIT receives funding to improve Big Bear Telescope, study solar energy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

NJIT researchers are at work on many scientific and technological frontiers. The National Science Foundation has recently provided support that totals nearly $4.3 million for the diverse efforts of the following ...


GE, Vivendi talks over NBC Universal stretch on (AP)

GE, Vivendi talks over NBC Universal stretch on

Technology / Business

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A deal for Comcast Corp. to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal and create one of the most powerful media companies in the world is taking longer than expected as the current owners tussle over ...


Pushing light beyond its known limits

Pushing light beyond its known limits

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (18) | comments 6

Scientists at the University of Adelaide have made a breakthrough that could change the world's thinking on what light is capable of.


US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano cut the ribbon Friday on a command center for government cybersecurity

US boots up new unified cybersecurity center

Technology / Internet

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano cut the ribbon on Friday on a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity efforts.


Reports: Cyberattacks traced to NKorea

Technology / Internet

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The North Korean government was the source of high-profile cyberattacks in July that caused Web outages in South Korea and the United States, news reports said Friday.


Africa world's fastest growing mobile phone market

Africa world's fastest growing mobile phone market

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mobile phone subscriptions in Africa have defied the world economic crisis by growing faster than in any other region of the world since 2003, according to a United Nations report published ...


FCC girds itself to navigate swamp where Web, phone, TV meet

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The federal government this week is stepping squarely into a high-stakes technology battle with this seemingly straightforward question at its core: Should Internet providers such as Comcast and AT&T be allowed to control ...


FCC votes to begin crafting 'net neutrality' rules

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal regulators took an important step Thursday toward prohibiting broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against certain kinds of Internet traffic.


As Google, AT&T feud simmers, a partnership waits in the wings

Technology / Internet

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It's not often that phone sex lines and Benedictine nuns enter into debates on telecommunications industry regulation, but AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. are making it happen.



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