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Wi-Fi for travelers becomes Web marketing lure
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(AP) -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.
Grant awarded to improve the security of mobile devices and cellular networks
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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 ...
NICTA demonstrates new interference-cancellation modem for 3G femtocell networks
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, has successfully demonstrated technology that reduces the amount of radio interference in 3G networks with ...
AT&T sues Verizon in Ga. over 'map for that' ads
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- AT&T Inc. is suing Verizon Wireless over its competitor's "There's a Map for That" commercials, saying in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the ads are misleading and amount to deceptive trade practices.
China Unicom eyes one million China 3G subscribers per month
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Mobile operator China Unicom said Tuesday it aimed to boost the number of its 3G mobile phone subscribers in China by one million per month, following its launch of Apple's iPhone there.
Jumping on the bandwagon: Introducing the next generation multi-band radio to emergency responders
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Tom Chirhart knows a lot about radios, but over the last year, he's gotten a real life lesson in supply and demand.
Bell Labs breaks optical transmission record, 100 Petabit per second kilometer barrier
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Alcatel-Lucent today announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). ...
T-Mobile says phone service outage resolved (Update)
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Wireless provider T-Mobile USA Inc. says it has cleared up service problems that were interfering with calls and text messaging for about 5 percent of its customers.
New Wi-Fi technology to let gadgets talk directly
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Starting in mid-2010, new versions of gadgets like cameras, cell phones and computers will be able to talk to each other using Wi-Fi without needing to connect to a wireless network first.
Google eyeing India 3G market: report
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Internet giant Google is considering entering India's third-generation (3G) telecommunications market, a report said Tuesday.
India says will start 3G auction in January
Oct 25, 2009 |
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India said Saturday a long-delayed auction of radio bandwidth for third generation (3G) telecommunications services will start in January and will be open to foreign companies.
Verizon launches TV-online movie channel
Oct 30, 2009 |
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US telecom firm Verizon launched a high-definition movie channel on Friday, letting subscribers watch films on-demand on televisions or on the Internet.
Africa world's fastest growing mobile phone market
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(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 ...
WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Cracked In Sixty Seconds
Aug 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Japanese computer scientists have developed a way to crack the WPA encryption between wireless routes and devices in 60 seconds.
FCC girds itself to navigate swamp where Web, phone, TV meet
Oct 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
