News tagged with networks radio

NASA lunar spacecraft GRAIL complete prime mission ahead of schedule

(Phys.org) -- A NASA mission to study the moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than expected. The team of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, with twin ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Verizon to auction spectrum worth billions

Verizon Wireless on Wednesday said it will auction a parcel of radio frequencies, which could be worth billions of dollars in an industry scrambling to offer consumers more cellular broadband.

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Australian WiFi inventors win US legal battle

Australian government science body CSIRO said Sunday it had won a multi-million-dollar legal settlement in the United States to license its patented technology that underpins the WiFi platform worldwide.

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 53

Internet does not make young people abandon traditional media: study

Almost all 9- to 24-year-old Swedes use the internet. Most of them do so daily, and the older they are, the more they use it. Yet, this does not mean that they have ceased using traditional media, says Professor Olle Findahl, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Guidance on wireless local area network security is close at hand

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released in final form a guide to enhanced security for wireless local area networks (WLAN). A WLAN is a group of wireless networking devices within a limited ...

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Never forget keys or phone ever again: Intelligent system keeps track of your items

RFID tags are becoming ubiquitous, shops, warehouses, libraries and others use them for stock and inventory control and to reduce the risk of theft. Now, a team in Dubai has developed the concept of an IPURSE, a mobile platform ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yelp looking for $12 to $14 per share in IPO

(AP) -- Online review service Yelp rated its own business Thursday, setting an IPO target of $12 to $14 per share that could value the 7-year-old company as high as $840 million.

Technology / Business

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Groupon shares soar after $700 million IPO

Groupon shares soared on Wall Street on Friday after the online daily deals sensation raised $700 million in the biggest initial public offering by an Internet company since Google.

Technology / Business

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

NASA in final preparations for Nov. 8 asteroid flyby

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past Earth slightly closer than the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Spotify doesn't quite hit the spot

Subscription services have been touted as the future of music for the past decade. But at least in this country, they've never taken off.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 0

10 years later, NY responders communicate better

(AP) -- On Sept. 11, 2001, as firefighters rushed into the smoldering twin towers, their radios went dead. Police on the scene couldn't hear orders from their superiors. And none of the agencies responding ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ambient electromagnetic energy harnessed for small electronic devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Radio waves help track Pacific currents 24/7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Along the West Coast of the United States, a network of antennas is sending radio waves out to sea 24 hours a day and capturing real-time data about the ocean's currents.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Pandora's stock retreats to below IPO price

(AP) -- Buyer's remorse already may be setting in for some investors in Internet radio station Pandora Media.

Technology / Business

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pandora gains point to healthy Internet IPO future

(AP) -- Internet radio station Pandora Media's IPO struck the right chord with investors Wednesday despite the static in the overall stock market.

Technology / Business

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0