A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
May 12, 2008
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Plans in the 1990s to bring ultra-high speed telecom lines into every home foundered because the optical fibre infrastructure was just too expensive. But a new European project using plastic fibre and off-the-shelf ...
Jan 09, 2008
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Alcatel-Lucent today announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per ...
Sep 29, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
Nov 18, 2008
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Samsung Electronics said Monday it had successfully tested super-fast fifth-generation (5G) wireless technology that would eventually allow users to download an entire movie in one second.
May 13, 2013
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After a warning from a government watchdog group, schools and families in Britain are scrambling to remove Wi-Fi systems.
Jun 04, 2007
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New research at the Georgia Institute of Technology could soon make that tangle of wires under desks and in data centers a thing of the past.
Jul 19, 2007
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The ultra-high data speeds possible on optical fibre networks will only come into their own when the fibres reach the last mile into everyone’s home. But that will require miniaturisation and integration ...
Nov 07, 2007
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Wireless security protocol, WEP, is everywhere in Wi-Fi networks and just got quicker and easier for hackers to break into.
Apr 06, 2007
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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 ...
Sep 06, 2011
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(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 ...
Nov 25, 2011
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Samsung Electronics announced its plan to demonstrate 4th Generation (4G) mobile technology at the annual Samsung 4G Forum in Jeju Island, Korea for the first time in the world. Demonstration will take place ...
Aug 30, 2006
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A proposed US system to protect satellites from solar storms or high-altitude nuclear detonations could cause side-effects that lead to radio communication blackouts, according to new research. If activated, the "radiation ...
Aug 14, 2006
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The telecom giant is warning customers to avoid excessive bandwidth consumption or risk being disconnected for up to a year.
Apr 05, 2007
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(Phys.org) -- Groundbreaking two-way wireless technology resulting in vastly superior voice and data services has been developed by a University of Waterloo engineering research team led by Amir K. Khandani, ...
Jun 14, 2012
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