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Apple looks to begin a fresh reinvention on Monday as it rolls out Hollywood stars for its new streaming television service, part of a broad shift of direction for the California technology giant. https://phys.org/news/2019-03-aiming-reinvention-apple-eyes-streaming.html Telecom Sun, 24 Mar 2019 05:51:29 EDT news472625482 Whether you're watching your favorite show on Netflix or backing up all-important cat photos to Google Drive, the "cloud" has become an essential part of our digital lives. https://phys.org/news/2018-10-streaming-tv-gmail-cloud.html Telecom Tue, 30 Oct 2018 03:36:47 EDT news460089397 Thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Oregon. https://phys.org/news/2018-07-internet-infrastructure-sea.html Telecom Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:13:23 EDT news450976394 US wireless operators Sprint and T-Mobile will form a new company and push development of a super-fast 5G network, the heads of both firms said Sunday. https://phys.org/news/2018-04-t-mobile-sprint-company-ceo.html Telecom Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:47:40 EDT news444228451 Washington became the first state Monday to set up its own net-neutrality requirements after U.S. regulators repealed Obama-era rules that banned internet providers from blocking content or interfering with online traffic. https://phys.org/news/2018-03-washington-state-net-neutrality.html Telecom Tue, 06 Mar 2018 02:22:23 EDT news439525326 Phone makers will seek to entice new buyers with better cameras and bigger screens at the world's biggest mobile fair starting Monday in Spain after a year of flat smartphone sales. https://phys.org/news/2018-02-ai-5g-focus-mobile-fair.html Telecom Sat, 24 Feb 2018 06:49:11 EDT news438677339 The Federal Communications Commission repealed the Obama-era "net neutrality" rules Thursday, giving internet service providers like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T a free hand to slow or block websites and apps as they see fit or charge more for faster speeds. https://phys.org/news/2017-12-rollback-net-neutrality.html Telecom Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:29:07 EDT news432480542 The acrimonious battle over "net neutrality" in America comes to a head Thursday with a US agency set to vote to roll back rules enacted two years earlier aimed at preventing a "two-speed" internet. https://phys.org/news/2017-12-moment-truth-net-neutrality.html Telecom Thu, 14 Dec 2017 03:31:13 EDT news432444667 Hot, sunny weather could degrade future fifth-generation or "5G" cellular transmissions by more than 15%—which could mean more dropped calls in places like Florida and the Middle East—but an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University engineer says research will guide solutions. https://phys.org/news/2017-11-hot-sunny-days-5g-networks.html Telecom Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:24:23 EDT news431281449 The top US telecom regulator formally unveiled plans Tuesday to roll back "net neutrality" rules adopted in 2015 aimed at treating all online traffic equally. https://phys.org/news/2017-11-unveils-net-neutrality.html Telecom Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:36:49 EDT news430490201 Microsoft wants to extend broadband services to rural America by turning to a wireless technology that uses the buffer zones separating individual television channels in the airwaves. https://phys.org/news/2017-07-microsoft-rural-broadband.html Telecom Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:11:50 EDT news418979504 Mobile phone carriers scooped up airwaves no longer needed by television broadcasters last March in a $19-billion auction designed by UBC and Stanford University researchers. https://phys.org/news/2017-06-ai-auction-billion-worth-radio.html Telecom Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:00:12 EDT news417693986 Wireless communications is a technology that is used every day. Across society, there is a move away from using the internet on desktop computers and towards smartphones, tablets and laptops. Engineers at the University of Bristol have developed a novel radio frequency (RF) design tool that will speed up the design of tuneable wireless devices and will enable smartphones to roam internationally. https://phys.org/news/2017-04-tool-enable-global-roaming-smart.html Telecom Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:43:44 EDT news412415017 US lawmakers voted Tuesday to roll back rules that would block internet service providers from selling user data to third parties, following a heated debate over privacy protections. https://phys.org/news/2017-03-lawmakers-privacy-internet-carriers.html Telecom Wed, 29 Mar 2017 02:28:47 EDT news409973320 For eighth-grader Lakaysha Governor, her daily two-hour school bus commute had been spent catching up with friends and trying to tune out distractions from unruly preschoolers. https://phys.org/news/2017-03-wi-fi-wheels-google-students-online.html Telecom Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:39:23 EDT news409235957 Slow wi-fi is a source of irritation that nearly everyone experiences. Wireless devices in the home consume ever more data, and it's only growing, and congesting the wi-fi network. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have come up with a surprising solution: a wireless network based on harmless infrared rays. The capacity is not only huge (more than 40Gbit/s per ray) but also there is no need to share since every device gets its own ray of light. This was the subject for which TU/e researcher Joanne Oh received her PhD degree with the 'cum laude' distinction last week. https://phys.org/news/2017-03-wi-fi-rays-light100-faster-overloaded.html Telecom Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:20:01 EDT news408960720 When Singapore pulls the plug on its 2G mobile phone network this year, thousands of people could be stuck without a signal—digital have-nots left behind by the relentless march of technology. https://phys.org/news/2017-01-singapore-2g-switchoff-highlights-digital.html Telecom Sun, 22 Jan 2017 03:32:22 EDT news404278319 On the crowded morning metro in Helsinki, silence prevails. Everyone is hunched over their smartphone screens, reading the news, checking emails or watching videos. https://phys.org/news/2016-12-smartphone-obsessed-finns-tops-screen.html Telecom Tue, 27 Dec 2016 02:44:05 EDT news402029039 Grab some popcorn—AT&T wants to take you to the movies. https://phys.org/news/2016-10-att-reportedly-warner-80b.html Telecom Sat, 22 Oct 2016 17:30:45 EDT news396376220 Stanford engineers have invented a technology that would allow an internet user to tell network providers and online publishers when and if they want content or services to be given preferential delivery, an advance that could transform the network neutrality debate. https://phys.org/news/2016-09-technology-net-neutrality-deadlock.html Telecom Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:40:04 EDT news392974481 An undersea cable backed by Google and Asian companies aimed at boosting trans-Pacific broadband was put into service on Thursday, the consortium announced. https://phys.org/news/2016-06-undersea-cable-us-japan.html Telecom Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:31:22 EDT news386530269 Dutch telecoms group KPN said Thursday that The Netherlands had become the first country in the world to implement a nationwide long range (LoRa) network for the so-called Internet of Things. https://phys.org/news/2016-06-netherlands-nationwide-internet.html Telecom Thu, 30 Jun 2016 10:46:27 EDT news386502372 In a world of 7 billion cell phones, wireless service providers are always searching for ways to maximize the efficiency of wireless spectrum to improve service. The so-called "half duplex" radios that comprise today's cellular base stations perform two functions: They send signals and receive signals. Yet, despite a decade of dizzying advances in speed, they still can only perform one of these functions at a time. https://phys.org/news/2016-06-wireless-downloads-duplexing.html Telecom Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:58:01 EDT news384605872 Google on Tuesday unveiled a new landline telephone service aimed at helping consumers stay connected in the Internet cloud. https://phys.org/news/2016-03-google-unveils-landline-cloud.html Telecom Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:33:42 EDT news378487924 New research by engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Lund, working alongside National Instruments (NI), has demonstrated how a massive antenna system can offer a 12-fold increase in spectrum efficiency compared with current 4G cellular technology. https://phys.org/news/2016-03-world-5g-wireless-spectrum-efficiency.html Telecom Wed, 23 Mar 2016 10:06:40 EDT news377946387 With record-breaking speeds for fiber-optic data transmission, University of Illinois engineers have paved a fast lane on the information superhighway—creating on-ramps for big data in the process. https://phys.org/news/2016-03-record-speed-transmission-big-accessible.html Telecom Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:54:21 EDT news377945652 Google on Monday opened its Project Fi mobile phone service to anyone in the United States using its latest model Nexus smartphones. https://phys.org/news/2016-03-google-access-mobile-fi.html Telecom Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:10:16 EDT news376589404 Doctors could keep better tabs on their patients between visits with a simple wave of a magic wand-like device being developed at Dartmouth College. https://phys.org/news/2016-03-dartmouth-magic-wand-pairs-medical.html Telecom Sun, 06 Mar 2016 02:40:02 EDT news376454072 The upside of Wi-Fi is that it's everywhere - invisibly connecting laptops to printers, allowing smartphones to make calls or stream movies without cell service, and letting online gamers battle it out. https://phys.org/news/2016-02-wi-fi-power.html Telecom Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:26:20 EDT news375456370 Connecting your smartphone to the web with just a lamp—that is the promise of Li-Fi, featuring Internet access 100 times faster than Wi-Fi with revolutionary wireless technology. https://phys.org/news/2016-02-internet-wi-fi.html Telecom Tue, 23 Feb 2016 08:08:48 EDT news375437321