News tagged with wireless networking technology

Researchers use flexible channel width to improve user experience on wireless systems

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique to efficiently divide the bandwidth of the wireless spectrum in multi-hop wireless networks to improve operation and provide all users in the network ...

Technology / Telecom

created 6 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Now that you have a smartphone, it's time for a smart home

You've got a smartphone and maybe a smart TV, and may have heard that smart refrigerators are in the works. Next up: the smart home.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Australian WiFi inventors win US legal battle

Australian government science body CSIRO said Sunday it had won a multi-million-dollar legal settlement in the United States to license its patented technology that underpins the WiFi platform worldwide.

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 53

Microsoft hits Motorola, Google with EU complaint

Microsoft on Wednesday lodged a formal complaint with the European Union's competition regulator against Motorola Mobility and its soon-to-be owner Google, saying Motorola's aggressive enforcement of patent ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Broadband internet for everyone

In the developing world, 96 percent of all households have no internet access. Even in Germany, many regions are still without broadband connectivity. But in future, a revolutionary new technology for wireless ...

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Smart paint could revolutionize structural safety

An innovative low-cost smart paint that can detect microscopic faults in wind turbines, mines and bridges before structural damage occurs is being developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Clearwire slammed as CEO reportedly mulls default

(AP) -- Shares of wireless broadband network operator Clearwire Corp. plunged Friday after its chief executive told The Wall Street Journal that the company is weighing whether to make a large interest payment on Dec. 1.

Technology / Business

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

S. Korea's LG unveils ultra-high-speed smartphone

South Korea's LG Electronics Monday launched a new smartphone with ultra-high-speed network technology in a bid to catch up with rivals Apple and Samsung.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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

Google to offer tracking opt-out to Wi-Fi owners (Update)

(AP) -- Google Inc. is going to let people with home wireless networks decide whether they want to be lumped into a system that helps pinpoint the locations of people on cell phones.

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Nanoscale spin waves can replace microwaves

A group of scientists from the University of Gothenburg and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, have become the first group in the world to demonstrate that theories about nanoscale spin waves ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Tech company to build science ghost town in NM

New Mexico, home to several of the nation's premier scientific, nuclear and military institutions, is planning to embark on a science project of unprecedented scale - a petri dish the size of a large U.S. city.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 18

SK pays $920 mn for super-fast wireless spectrum

South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom has won a licence to operate super-fast wireless services after bidding 995 billion won ($920 million), regulators said Monday.

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

OMEGA at the top of the data transfer game

Researchers in Europe have successfully developed a new transfer technology for video data. An outcome of the OMEGA project, the team transferred data at an extremely fast rate of 100 megabits per second (Mbit/s) ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Inspired by insect intelligence

Monash University researchers, as part of an international collaboration, are using insect intelligence to develop new wireless sensor networks that could transform how we monitor changes to the environment, ...

Technology / Other

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Qualcomm, wilocity announce tri-band Wi-Fi -- multi-gigabit wireless chipset

Qualcomm Atheros and Wilocity today announced the AR9004TB, the industry's first tri-band Wi-Fi chipset that integrates the multi-gigabit performance of in-room 60 GHz band with seamless handoff to 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz band ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0