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Oct 2010 |
Add IEEE 1901 to the standards integrators need to know when selecting powerline-based home networking products, especially those connected to the Smart Grid.
IEEE 1901 Broadband over Power Line (BPL), which was recently approved by the IEEE Standards Association's Standards Board, will now sit along side the organization's other key standards - 802.11 wireless LAN and 802.3 Ethernet - when dealers look to install home networks.
Networking products that fully comply with IEEE 1901 must deliver data ra... |
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Oct 2010 |
Google said today it's invested in a project called the Atlantic Wind Connection, an effort to create a 350-mile power transmission backbone linking wind turbines several miles offshore with sites along the United States East Coast.
The underwater cable, "a superhighway for clean energy" in Google's words, is designed to link multiple offshore wind farms to the U.S. power grid. The wind farms, which are separate from the backbone project, would be located 10 to 15 miles offshore so they would have strong... |
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Oct 2010 |
UPC has won a legal action taken in the High Court by record labels over illegal downloading and file-sharing.
Warner Music, Universal Music, Sony BMG and EMI Records had been attempting to force internet service providers to adopt a three strikesӔ rule to halt copyright infringement and piracy by internet users.
The High Court ruled that laws to identify and cut off internet users illegally copying music files were not enforceable in Ireland.
In a judgment published today, Mr Justice Peter C... |
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Oct 2010 |
M8, a smartphone made by Chinese manufacturer Meizu that looks suspiciously like an iPhone, is about to become a rare commodity.
Meizu CEO Jack Wong posted on a Meizu forum that Apple's lawyers have convinced China's intellectual property office to shut down production of the M8 and ban the sale of existing devices because they bear too much similarity to Apple's phone.
Wong's quote (translated), according to Engadget:
Apple requested that we cease manufacturing the M8 this month, we agreed but ... |
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Oct 2010 |
When Microsoft failed to announce any Mac software for Windows Phone 7 at its event on Monday, many people assumed that meant that there would be no way to directly load content from an Apple computer onto the new devices. However, that will not be the case.
"Later in 2010 Microsoft will make a public beta available of a tool that allows Windows Phone 7 to sync select content with Mac computers," Microsoft said in a statement.
The statement, released shortly after midnight ET Wednesday, came after a ... |
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Sept 2010 |
Tawkon, a small Israeli start-up, announced Monday that its cell phone radiation detection application has arrived for Google Android phones.
The company's mobile application uses an algorithm that measures your specific absorption rate or SAR. This is the rate at which your whole body absorbs energy from a radio frequency magnetic field. Specifically, the company measures the amount of radiation that is emitted from the phone; it uses the phone's GPS technology and accelerometers to gauge the position a... |
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Sept 2010 |
The United States could run out of unique Internet addresses to assign to new devices by the end of next year, a telecommunications official said on Tuesday.
Internet Protocol version 4, known as IPv4, provides the dominant architecture for the Internet. It requires devices to have unique identifiers, known as an IP address, but it only has space for 4.3 billion of those addresses.
The recent profusion of mobile devices like Research in Motion's BlackBerry and Apple's iPad, and the expansion of Intern... |
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Sept 2010 |
Video streaming now makes up 35 per cent of data carried over the mobile networks, with YouTube supplying 40 per cent of that, so the airwaves are filled with TV all over again.
The figures come from the Allot MobileTrends report for the fist half of 2010, based on data passing through operators around the world with a total of 190m subscribers. That data shows video streaming in the first half of 2010 was almost double the previous six months, and is now the largest consumer of mobile bandwidth as every... |
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Sept 2010 |
Samsung Mobile has announced the launch of what it claims is the world's first 4G LTE-enabled, multi-mode, CDMA handset, the Samsung Craft SCH-r900. Samsung Mobile also supplied the LTE infrastructure to MetroPCS Communications Inc. for the commercial launch of 4G LTE service in Las Vegas, the first in the United States.
The Samsung Craft 4G mobile phone is available for USD299 plus tax and sports a 3.3-inch diagonal AMOLED display and sliding keyboard. A built-in 3.2 megapixel camera provides flash and ... |
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Sept 2010 |
Huawei says its 'SuperMIMO' technology uses four twisted pairs to achieve a downstream rate of 700Mbps at a distance of 400 metres.
According to Huawei "This innovative technology methodically addresses crosstalk among multiple twisted pairs and dramatically increases DSL bandwidth by 75 percent, from an average of 100Mbps per twisted pair to approximately 175Mbps.
However what Huawei has not said, and which would be critical to the value of the technology in many countries including Australia (if we ... |
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Sept 2010 |
Social networking website Facebook said on Sunday it is pushing deeper into the mobile phones sector, but denied an Internet report that it will build its own phone.
Privately held Facebook has more than 500 million users worldwide and the company already has applications on a number of mobile phones that tie into its social networking website.
But Jaime Schopflin, a spokesman for Facebook, said the privately held company "is not building a phone." Facebook's current projects include "deeper integrati... |
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Sept 2010 |
Twitter has undergone its first major facelift which aims to provide a rich multi-media experience for its 160 million users.
The redesign aims to make it easier for users to check out photos and video.
As Twitter competes for advertising dollars, it is also seeking to ensure people stay on the website for longer and return more often.
Twitter.com now spreads information over two "panes" instead of over one page.
One pane or panel is devoted to the 90 million messages or tweets posted on the sit... |
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Sept 2010 |
The inventor of the Web has called for everyone to have access to his creation for free.
Tim Berners-Lee said that he would like to see everybody given a low-bandwidth connection "by default".
He said the web could be instrumental in givng people access to critical services such as healthcare.
Currently, he said, just one-fifth of the world's population has access to the web.
"What about the other 80%?" he asked the audience at the Nokia World conference in London.
"I would like to see people... |
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Sept 2010 |
Microsoft Bing busted Yahoo's bubble in August, pulling ahead of its search-providing partner 13.9 percent to 13.1 percent. Combined, the companies sport 27 percent market share, Nielsen said. Google holds 65 percent.
The combination of Microsoft's MSN, Windows Live and Bing search properties helped Microsoft overtake Yahoo in search for the first time ever in August, according to researcher Nielsen.
Microsoft's properties tallied 13.9 percent of search volume last month, compared with 13.1 percent fo... |
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Sept 2010 |
A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, he said Tuesday.
Kosuke Tsuneoka, a freelance journalist, was released from five months of captivity on Saturday. His freedom came a day after the first messages since his disappearance were posted to his Twitter account.
"i am still allive [sic], but in jail," read a message sent at 1:15 p.m. GMT on Frida... |
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