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Call Forwarding: New NIST Procedure Could Speed Cell Phone Testing

(PhysOrg.com) -- By accurately re-creating the jumbled wireless signal environment of a city business district in a special indoor test facility, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sony Introduces its First 3D Compatible A/V Receiver

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony today announced its first A/V receiver capable of supporting 3-D audio and video.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers develop new bushfire warning device

A new, low-cost bushfire detection and monitoring system is being developed by University of Adelaide researchers using mobile communications technology.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Modern wireless technologies could save bushfire lives

Mobile technologies, including the global system for mobile communication (GSM) and the ZigBee short-range wireless data connection technology could be used to monitor and detect bushfires, according to two research papers ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A social network that ballooned

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Tuesday, Dec. 1, members of the MIT Media Lab’s Human Dynamics Laboratory received an e-mail with a $40,000 proposition. The U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Tech accessories can spice up holiday list

As much as I love buying big-ticket items such as TVs, computers, cell phones and cameras, I also love buying accessories for those items just as much, maybe even more.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smartphone app illuminates power consumption

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming. PowerTutor was developed by doctoral students and professors ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Seeing stars, Proba-2 platform passes its first health check

(PhysOrg.com) -- Into its second week in orbit, Proba-2's spacecraft platform has proven to be in excellent health. This leaves the way clear for commissioning the many new technology payloads aboard the mini-satellite, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

HP's new touch Tablet: Windows 7 ultimate remote?

Hewlett-Packard recently announced a new wireless, touchscreen tablet that's a cross between a wireless photo frame and a super duper remote control.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Greenland's melt mystery unfolds, at glacial pace

(AP) -- Suddenly and without warning, the gigantic river of ice sped up, causing it to spit icebergs ever faster into the ocean off southeastern Greenland.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Variables play into how well wireless works

In a recent column, Dianne Dunlap, a customer support engineer specializing in wireless technology for Cisco Systems, gave a thorough breakdown of how to check whether wireless Internet connectivity problems are due to wireless ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

SKorean firms to jointly develop new chips

Samsung Electronics will lead a group of South Korean firms in jointly developing advanced semiconductors used for smartphones and digital televisions, officials said Monday.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two-Antenna Quad-Beam 11-15 GHz Phased Array RFIC Targeted at Satellite Systems and Advanced Radars

(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Jazz Semiconductor, a Tower Group Company, today announced that they have collaborated to develop a two-antenna quad-beam RFIC phased array ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

U-verse offers TV alternative and more

OK, I admit it. When I am asked to test questionable software, I usually install it first on my wife's computer. And my kids are crash-test dummies ramming head-first into all sorts of dubious products. But they don't care ...

Technology / Telecom

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Intruder alert: 'Smart Dew' will find you!

A remarkable new invention from Tel Aviv University — a network of tiny sensors as small as dewdrops called "Smart Dew" — will foil even the most determined intruder. Scattered outdoors on rocks, fence posts ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 16