http://phys.org/technology-news/telecom/ en-us Phys.Org provides the latest news on telecommunications, telecom, telecom technology and telecommunications technology. Google has become deeply involved in a series of projects to build and operate wireless networks in emerging markets including sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, a report said Friday. http://phys.org/news288632212.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 24 May 2013 16:36:59 EST news288632212 Researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have achieved the wireless transmission of 40 Gbit/s at 240 GHz over a distance of one kilometer. Their most recent demonstration sets a new world record and ties in seamlessly with the capacity of optical fiber transmission. In the future, such radio links will be able to close gaps in providing broadband internet by supplementing the network in rural areas and places which are difficult to access. http://phys.org/news288340310.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 21 May 2013 07:32:07 EST news288340310 Samsung Electronics said Monday it had successfully tested super-fast fifth-generation (5G) wireless technology that would eventually allow users to download an entire movie in one second. http://phys.org/news287630473.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 13 May 2013 02:21:28 EST news287630473 Toyota is teaming up with Microsoft for an Internet service that links cars, home computers and smartphones so users can find nearby tourist spots, connect on social networks and learn about new models. http://phys.org/news286165086.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:18:35 EST news286165086 The US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, including a tiny autonomous chip, the director of the Pentagon's research agency said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news286084720.html Technology - Telecom Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:58:53 EST news286084720 (Phys.org) —Router hacking is joining the ranks of computer security headaches, where the wireless router becomes the key target for those seeking to trespass into someone else's network. The remote attacker can take full control of the router's settings or just bypass authentication and takes control. The attacker is free to modify traffic as it enters and leaves the network. Wrote Michael Mimoso in Threatpost, from Kasperksy Lab, "Hackers love to attack Java. Why? Well, not only because it is full of holes, but because it's everywhere, embedded on endpoints, Web browsers, mobile devices and more. The same goes for attacking wireless routers; they're buggy and they're everywhere." http://phys.org/news285745804.html Technology - Telecom Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:30:01 EST news285745804 If you're a customer of AT&T's U-verse service or have plain-old DSL Internet access, you may feel like you're stuck in the slow lane, especially compared to your friends and neighbors who have cable Internet access. But you soon may be getting a speed boost. http://phys.org/news285603080.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:40:01 EST news285603080 Google announced Tuesday that its experimental superfast Internet service will spread to Austin, the Texas home of a South By Southwest festival beloved by technology trendsetters. http://phys.org/news284738279.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:58:08 EST news284738279 A startup whose business model is based on tiny antennas receiving over-the-air television for online viewing by subscribers has put the US broadcast industry on the defensive. http://phys.org/news284553185.html Technology - Telecom Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:33:12 EST news284553185 (Phys.org) —Most term papers are evaluated by one or two people, but Carlee Joe-Wong's will be checked by hundreds. http://phys.org/news284102184.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:16:34 EST news284102184 Monash University researchers have played a pivotal role in the invention of an energy-efficient method of increasing the data capacity of optical networks to the point where all of the world's internet traffic could travel on a single fiber. http://phys.org/news283418136.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:16:02 EST news283418136 As network carriers debate the next Ethernet standard—and whether transmission speeds of 400 gigabit per second or 1 terabit per second should be the norm—engineers are working on new measures to squeeze next-generation performance out of current-generation systems. http://phys.org/news282310905.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:44:26 EST news282310905 The White House said Monday it agrees with a citizen petition arguing that "unlocking" of mobile phones to allow users to switch carriers should be legal. http://phys.org/news281634928.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:55:37 EST news281634928 Mobile money may seem like a hot concept, but consumers aren't warming to it. At the world's largest cellphone trade show, here in Barcelona this week, the 70,000 attendees are encouraged to use their cellphones —instead their keycards— to get past the turnstiles at the door. But very few people took the chance to do that. The process of setting up the phone to act as a keycard proved too much of a hassle. http://phys.org/news281337529.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:19:01 EST news281337529 A car that tells your insurance company how you're driving. A bathroom scale that lets you chart your weight on the Web. And a meter that warns your air conditioner when electricity gets more expensive. http://phys.org/news281164849.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:21:07 EST news281164849 US telecom regulators have moved to expand the capacities for Wi-Fi Internet access with more room on the broadcast spectrum and "more flexible" rules. http://phys.org/news280669453.html Technology - Telecom Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:44:22 EST news280669453 Work co-authored by a University of Kansas researcher examines how just a few nations and regions control the majority of the world's Internet connectivity. http://phys.org/news280056840.html Technology - Telecom Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:40:03 EST news280056840 (Phys.org)—UK's Technology Strategy Board, a government agency looking for innovative ways of using technology, is funding research into a new way of locating and tracking aircraft. The research project is calling upon Thales, which is to explore the use of TV signals to locate and track aircraft. The project could possibly bear impact on the future of air traffic control, as an improvement to current airport radar systems. The Thales effort is a two-year project to investigate how the current system can be overhauled. http://phys.org/news279952193.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:30:01 EST news279952193 Global Internet connection speeds around the world slowed in late 2012, according to a survey released Wednesday that suggested a temporary stall in broadband gains. http://phys.org/news278160676.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:51:45 EST news278160676 (Phys.org)—IEEE has adopted a new standard, 802.11ad, which marks the advent of 7Gbps wireless. The newly approved standard will be commercially known as WiGig, and the technology behind WiGig is seen as a step forward for wireless mobile use; data transfer rates will be over ten times the maximum speed previously enabled within the IEEE 802.11 standard. This involves fast speeds over short distances; the standard will deliver 7Gbps speeds over 60GHz frequencies. http://phys.org/news277731817.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:00:01 EST news277731817 The head of French telecoms operator Orange said on Wednesday it had been able to impose a deal on Google to compensate it for the vast amounts of traffic sent across its networks. http://phys.org/news277561148.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:19:17 EST news277561148 Google said Tuesday it is teaming up with a New York City neighborhood business group to provide the company's first urban Wi-Fi network. http://phys.org/news276878432.html Technology - Telecom Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:40:38 EST news276878432 When data traffic snarls in your Wi-Fi router, Qualcomm has an answer for you: a "Killer" traffic cop to sort things out. http://phys.org/news276799233.html Technology - Telecom Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:00:02 EST news276799233 (Phys.org)—A new positioning system can take on where GPS leaves off. An Australia-based company, Locata, is featuring a ground-based system using stronger signals than GPS for pinpointing a person's location indoors or outdoors. In place of satellites, Locata has developed technology that features ground-based equipment to project a radio signal over a localized area. A Locata network of small, ground-based transmitters blankets a chosen area with strong radio-positioning signals. This is a "terrestrially" based system capable of powerful signals, which can work in both internal and external environments. http://phys.org/news276520432.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:50:01 EST news276520432 If the wireless Internet connection during your holiday flight seems more reliable than it used to, you could have the humble potato to thank. http://phys.org/news275423354.html Technology - Telecom Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:29:37 EST news275423354 (Phys.org)—Ang Cui a fifth year PhD student at Columbia University, has given a demonstration at this year's Amphion Forum in San Francisco, showing a security vulnerability he and colleagues have discovered in Cisco VoIP phones. The vulnerability, he said, allows an intruder to place an electronic device into an on-premise VoIP phone that can be controlled by a nearby smartphone – allowing the "Off Hook Switch" to be manipulated in such as way as to effectively turn the phone into a two-way walkie-talkie. He noted also that once a single phone had been breached all others on the same network could be breached as well though the single device. http://phys.org/news275121945.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:00:01 EST news275121945 (Phys.org)—Marvell Technology Group has announced Avastar 88W8864, a wireless local area network system-on-chip. The company says the 88W8864 sets new industry benchmarks for speed and range. The new entry is the industry's first "802.11ac 4x4 solution," for access points and wireless video distribution. With the release of the Marvell 802.11ac 4x4 chip, the company message is that here is a solution that offers a significant increase in Wi-Fi bandwidth capacity and reliability. http://phys.org/news273990734.html Technology - Telecom Thu, 06 Dec 2012 05:40:01 EST news273990734 (Phys.org)—Minding the need for more and more mobile spectrum in a post-4G environment, Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator, announced on Friday that it is preparing to support the release of spectrum for future mobile services, possibly 5G, when the spectrum becomes available. It's all about needed support for future mobile network capacity needs. Ofcom said it is looking into a way to avert the risk of a capacity crunch in mobile data as people consume more bandwidth on mobile devices, making sure that the mobile infrastructure in the UK can continue to support the growth in consumer demand. http://phys.org/news272293998.html Technology - Telecom Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:30:01 EST news272293998 (Phys.org)—This much everyone knows: As technologies break new ground in speed and performance, mischief-makers also break new ground in finding ways to disrupt. Now an academic research group has warned a U.S. government agency of their findings, which show that the LTE high-speed wireless data networks of today and tomorrow are vulnerable to a jamming technique that could destroy service across a city. They say it could take nothing more complex than a laptop and $650 battery-operated radio unit aimed at portions of the LTE signal, to knock out an LTE base station, affecting large numbers of city residents. http://phys.org/news272216895.html Technology - Telecom Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:20:01 EST news272216895 As many WiFi users know, WiFi performance is often poor in areas where there are a lot of users, such as airports or coffee shops. But researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new software program, called WiFox, which can be incorporated into existing networks and expedites data traffic in large audience WiFi environments – improving data throughput by up to 700 percent. http://phys.org/news272113555.html Technology - Telecom Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:06:11 EST news272113555