News tagged with television reception

Chile to adopt Japanese digital TV standard: Bachelet

Chile will adopt the Japanese digital television standard ISDB-T, which is high-definition capable, joining neighboring Peru and Argentina, President Michelle Bachelet said Monday.

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Some still having problems with digital TV conversion

It seemed so simple. Buy a government-subsidized converter box, plug it in, and sit back and enjoy the brave new world of digital television.

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | 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




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Microsoft advocates new WiFi-NC to make use of white spaces in spectrum

(PhysOrg.com) -- Four years ago, the FCC began allowing limited use of the so-called white spaces in the electromagnetic spectrum that is shared by all wireless devices (in the United States). The white spaces ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Chinese panda loan to France kept top secret

As world leaders held frenzied talks to try to save the crisis-hit eurozone in the south of France earlier this month, the fate of two giant pandas destined for a French zoo hung in the balance.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook in no rush to IPO, enter China

Facebook is in no hurry to go public or to get into China, where it is officially blocked, according to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the social networking giant.

Technology / Business

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More U.S. consumers spurn cable TV bills

In July, the Benediktssons of Chandler, Ariz., declared their independence from cable television.

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Russia's recent catalogue of space disasters

The failed launch of the unmanned Progress cargo space craft which crashed into Earth instead of delivering supplies to the ISS was the latest in a spate of mishaps in the Russian space programme.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Legal challenges could hold back cloud computing

Want to store your digital songs, movies, TV shows, books and video games on a computer or mobile device? No problem. The real trick these days is pushing all that content onto the Internet so it can follow you from device ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

Study finds news logo can affect viewer biases

(PhysOrg.com) -- Americans are more receptive to Al Jazeera English's reporting when they think it is actually CNN International's broadcast, a new University of Michigan study finds.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Russia marks 50 years since Gagarin triumph

Half a century ago, a Russian carpenter's son named Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, carving an indelible mark in human history and scoring the greatest Soviet Cold War success.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Goddard annual Sun-Earth day has a tweeting twist

Every year, near the equinox, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. hosts -- and encourages other museums and educators to host -- a solar extravaganza called Sun-Earth Day. The day is part ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sheen seduces 1.3 million Twitter fans in two days

Troubled American actor Charlie Sheen was Thursday reveling in the fact that his new Twitter account had attracted some 1.3 million followers in just two days.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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