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NIST to expand work on emergency communications to support FirstNet

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will significantly expand its work in support of an advanced wireless communications system for the nation's first responders and emergency workers as a result of ...

Technology / Telecom

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

Countries agree on new mobile spectrum at radio conference

The International Telecommunication Union said Friday its World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC-12) has agreed a treaty aimed at revising the radio frequency spectrum to speed up mobile services.

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Dutch probing Iranian hacker's claims

The Dutch government is investigating claims by a suspected Iranian hacker that he falsified Internet security certificates at a Dutch company, a government spokesman said Friday.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Japan says plant clean-up will take decades

Japan's prime minister said on Saturday the decommissioning of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant would take decades, in the first government announcement of a long-term timeframe for the clean-up.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

Rangers nab year's biggest croc in Australia

Australian park rangers said on Friday they had caught the year's biggest crocodile, a whopping 4.5 metres (15 feet) beast which had been terrorising fishermen.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wildfire razes Canadian town

A wildfire engulfed the town of Slave Lake in western Canada, forcing the evacuation of its 7,000 residents at the start of the forest fire season, authorities said Monday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Judge in Pirate Bay trial may have been biased

A Swedish judge who found four men guilty of promoting copyright infringement by running filesharing site The Pirate Bay may have been biased and a retrial may be ordered, legal experts said Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Media ignores health consequences of drinking and driving among young celebrities

The recent drinking and driving (DUI) arrests of celebrities—Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, Michelle Rodriguez and Lindsay Lohan—yielded widespread news coverage, however, very little of it offered any public health context, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0