News tagged with cell tower
Breakthrough could double wireless capacity with no new towers
The days of waiting for smartphones to upload video may be numbered. Rice University engineering researchers have made a breakthrough that could allow wireless phone companies to double throughput on their ...
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Hacker drone launches airborne cyber attacks
Computer security specialists showed off a homemade drone aircraft Friday capable of launching airborne cyber attacks, hijacking mobile phone calls, or even delivering a dirty bomb.
Aug 06, 2011 |
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Document shows how phone cos. treat private data
A document obtained by the ACLU shows for the first time how the four largest cellphone companies in the U.S. treat data about their subscribers' calls, text messages, Web surfing and approximate locations.
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Wireless advances could mean no more cell towers
(AP) -- As cell phones have spread, so have large cell towers - those unsightly stalks of steel topped by transmitters and other electronics that sprouted across the country over the last decade.
Feb 12, 2011 |
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FAA warns pilots in Las Vegas vicinity on GPS
Pilots flying at night near Las Vegas over the next week may have to navigate the old-fashioned way - without GPS.
May 18, 2011 |
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Space: The final frontier for cell phones?
(AP) -- The vast, thinly populated expanses of the country that still lack cell phone coverage could be getting an interesting option next year: ordinary-looking cell phones that connect to a satellite when ...
Apr 09, 2009 |
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GPS court ruling leaves US phone tracking unclear
A US Supreme Court decision requiring a warrant to place a GPS device on the car of a criminal suspect leaves unresolved the bigger issue of police tracking using mobile phones, legal experts say.
Feb 11, 2012 |
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NY town enacts tough cell tower limits
(AP) -- A Long Island township has imposed restrictions on the placement of new cell towers that are among the toughest in the country, and one phone company says it effectively bans new construction.
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Cellphone towers fade into landscape
Faced with providing service for ever more data-hungry cellphones, telecommunications carriers are in a nonstop race costing billions of dollars to boost the capacities of their networks.
Dec 22, 2011 |
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SF area transit agency to discuss wireless policy
(AP) -- The transit agency in the San Francisco Bay area hopes to ease tensions with a public meeting over whether there should be a policy on cutting wireless access to its stations during protests.
Aug 24, 2011 |
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