News tagged with telephone
Internet address system upgrade likely to be smooth
The Internet is set for a major upgrade in the coming week, but if all goes well, users won't even know it's happening.
Jun 03, 2012 |
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Under Microsoft, Skype aims for one billion users
Microsoft's Skype Internet telephone service hopes to quadruple the number of users to get to one billion, division president Tony Bates said Thursday.
May 31, 2012 |
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Technology convergence may widen the digital divide
(Phys.org) -- Technology is helping communication companies merge telephone, television and Internet services, but a push to deregulate may leave some customers on the wrong side of the digital divide during this convergence, ...
May 17, 2012 |
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Ariane rocket launches two Asian satellites
An Ariane 5 rocket successfully launched two Asian telecoms satellites into orbit from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana, European operator Arianespace announced.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 16, 2012 |
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Road phones safer than ever
New self-lighting and self monitoring telephones on road highways and other key locations can reduce the need for maintenance significantly and, more importantly, save lives.
May 03, 2012 |
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Moody's downgrades Nokia's rating, keeps negative outlook
The international ratings agency Moody's downgraded on Monday its ratings for the Finnish telephone maker Nokia owing to poor prospects for future sales.
Apr 16, 2012 |
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British anti-terror hotline breached by hackers: police
Hackers have recorded calls between staff manning Britain's anti-terrorist hotline, Scotland Yard revealed Thursday, in the second security breach involving the force in recent months.
Apr 12, 2012 |
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South Korean phone company bets on K-pop
(AP) -- South Korea's largest fixed-line telephone company is trying to capitalize on the worldwide popularity of Korean pop music, or K-pop, to increase revenue from overseas.
Apr 12, 2012 |
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World's first field trial of 10Gbit/s-100km class high speed and wide area optical access
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has succeeded in the field trial of an optical amplification technology that realizes 10Gbit/s-100km class high speed and wide area optical access networks.
Mar 07, 2012 |
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NTT develops current-injection photonic-crystal laser
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has developed an current-injection photonic-crystal laser with ultralow power consumption that can be applied to off-chip and on-chip optical data transmission for ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Scientists break satellite telephony security standards
Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. German researchers at the Horst Gortz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have cracked the encryption algorithms of the European ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 08, 2012 |
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No future without scarce metals
It is not just in laptop computers, mobile telephones and LED screens that scarce metals are to be found but also in solar cells, batteries for mobile technologies and many other similar applications. The ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Congolese inventor puts African tablet on sale
Africa has its first handheld tablet to rival the iPad and similar western inventions, which went on sale in the Republic of Congo on Monday, its inventor Verone Mankou said Monday.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 30, 2012 |
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O2 accidentally exposes customers' phone numbers
An untold number of U.K. residents may have unwittingly broadcast their numbers to sites across the Web while browsing the Internet with their cellphones during the past two weeks.
Jan 25, 2012 |
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FBI contacted phone monitoring firm about software
A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software secretly installed on 141 million cellphones said Thursday that the FBI approached the company about using its technology but was reb ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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