News tagged with traffic data

Google Maps now helps users beat traffic jams

Google upgraded its popular Google Maps on Monday to suggest faster routes to drivers based on real-time traffic conditions.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Spies breach Pentagon fighter-jet project: report

Computer spies have hacked into the Pentagon's most costly weapons program, a US newspaper reported Tuesday, raising the prospect of adversaries gaining access to top-secret security data.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 8

Intel's new fiber-optic cables promise speed boost

Envisioning a data traffic jam looming as consumers shuttle increasing amounts of information among their home PCs, televisions and other gadgets, Intel plans to introduce new technology in a few months that could keep everything ...

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 8

Internet traffic to quadruple by 2015: Cisco

Global online traffic will quadruple by 2015 as the number of gadgets linked to the Internet climbs to 15 billion, according to a forecast by networking colossus Cisco.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Bouncing signals off ceiling can rev up data centers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have a startlingly upbeat idea for data center managers coping with packed rooms, Internet traffic bursts, and high costs looming in having to reconfigure data center designs. ...

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast report

Worldwide mobile data traffic to rocket: Cisco

The amount of data sent to or from mobile gadgets around the world annually will rocket to hit the equivalent of 33 billion full-length DVD films by the year 2016, computer networking titan Cisco forecast ...

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Team achieves one terabit per second data rate on a single integrated photonic chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- With worldwide Internet data traffic increasing by 50 percent each year, telecommunications companies that handle this digital torrent must be able to economically expand the capacities of their networks ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Google unveils free GPS navigation for mobile phones

Google unveiled a free navigation system for mobile phones on Wednesday in a move seen as a potential challenge to the makers of GPS navigation devices.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

EU pushes button for next Internet age

Europe geared up on Tuesday for a quantum leap in Internet traffic and a new generation of infrastructure to carry data, announcing the launch of a 600-million-euro research and investment programme.

Technology / Telecom

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 6

The blackbox in your car

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is expected that within the next month officials at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will declare that all cars must have an event data recorder inside the vehicle.

Technology / Other

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 124 | with audio podcast weblog

On gravel roads, people drive at speed they are comfortable with, regardless of posted limit

Kansas gravel roads have varying speed limits, but a study by Kansas State University researchers shows that instead of abiding by those limits, people are more likely to use their own judgment to gauge how ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Putting the squeeze on data

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data compression is one of the fundamental research areas in computer science, letting information systems do more with less. It’s the reason the iPod nano can hold thousands of songs instead ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Murders, Traffic Deaths Connected

If you want to know how many people are killed in car accidents in a particular U.S. state, look to its prisons. Regions with higher murder rates also tend to have a greater number of traffic fatalities, according to a new ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

FCC clears deep-sea fiber-optic cable linking Asia, California

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has given the green light for a trans-Pacific fiber-optic cable funded by an international consortium that includes Google. The new cable, expected to be carrying data traffic by ...

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Beijing to trial mobile tracking system: report

A system designed to track the location of millions of mobile phone users is to be tested in Beijing, sparking concerns over privacy, state media reported Thursday.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0