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Breakthrough could double wireless capacity with no new towers

The days of waiting for smartphones to upload video may be numbered. Rice University engineering researchers have made a breakthrough that could allow wireless phone companies to double throughput on their ...

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Japan collab transmits record data speeds on terahertz waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Japan-based semiconductor manufacturer Rohm, together with a team from Osaka University, have come up with a chip that, in experiments, has achieved a wireless data transmission ...

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 20 | with audio podcast weblog

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

Smart skin: Electronics that stick and stretch like a temporary tattoo (w/ video)

Engineers have developed a device platform that combines electronic components for sensing, medical diagnostics, communications and human-machine interfaces, all on an ultrathin skin-like patch that mounts ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

T-ray madness: Scientists score wireless data record

(Phys.org) -- Wednesday headlines trumpeted how "Japanese researchers smash Wi-Fi records" and "Scientists show off the future of Wi-Fi." The excitement is for good reason. A team of scientists have broken ...

Technology / Telecom

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 9 | with audio podcast weblog

Broadcom will ship 802.11ac products in 2012

(PhysOrg.com) -- Broadcom is highlighting a second coming of Wi-Fi in the name of the new IEEE standard 802.11ac, with this week’s announcement that its products based on the nascent standard will be ...

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 10, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Review: Sony's new PlayStation Vita disappoints

With the PlayStation Vita, Sony has attempted to infuse a traditional handheld game machine with some of the smartphone and tablet features that have made gaming on those devices so popular lately.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (28) | comments 6

Group shows botnet threat in the future may come from the sky

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sven Dietrich, an assistant professor in computer science at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and two of his students have given a demonstration of an aerial drone, that they say could ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 13 | with audio podcast weblog

British firm develops 'cheapest wireless tablet'

A British technology company claims to have developed the world's least expensive computer tablet for wireless Internet access.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Ambient electromagnetic energy harnessed for small electronic devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Artificially structured metamaterials may boost wireless power transfer

Scientists calculate that a "perfect lens," a slab of artificial material engineered to focus electromagnetic fields in ways that natural materials can't, may increase the efficiency of some wireless power transfer systems.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Simple security for wireless: no password required

In early August, at the Def Con conference — a major annual gathering of computer hackers — someone apparently hacked into many of the attendees’ cell phones, in what may have been the first successful breach ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

A device attempts to elevate the iPad's keyboard

Even if you love the iPad, you're probably not keen to write your next novel using its on-screen virtual keyboard. You may not be thrilled to type up a lengthy email with it, either.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 18, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (15) | comments 5

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

Qualcomm's HaloIPT tech brings wireless charging for EVs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Qualcomm has demonstrated its new wireless power transmission system for electric vehicles (EVs) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The system, including one pad for power transmitting, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Wireless

Wireless communication is the transfer of information over a distance without the use of electrical conductors or "wires". The distances involved may be short (a few meters as in television remote control) or long (thousands or millions of kilometers for radio communications). When the context is clear, the term is often shortened to "wireless". Wireless communication is generally considered to be a branch of telecommunications.

It encompasses various types of fixed, mobile, and portable two way radios, cellular telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and wireless networking. Other examples of wireless technology include GPS units, garage door openers and or garage doors, wireless computer mice, keyboards and headsets, satellite television and cordless telephones.

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