Google patent keeps airwaves competitive by selecting the cheapest (Saturday 27th of September 2008 07:09:00 PM)
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless
Google's perpetual interest in ensuring that the US' 700MHz
visible electromagnetic radio-frequency spectrum would give rise to a network open to any and
all devices reinforced its belief that carriers can and should ...
(more)FCC Aims To End Debate With Wireless Tests (Saturday 06th of September 2008 02:00:01 AM)
Narramissic writes "Engineers from T-Mobile, AT&T, M2Z Networks, Nokia, Metro PCS, CTIA and XM
Sirius have convened at a Boeing facility in Seattle this to watch as the FCC performs tests it
hopes will quiet debate over a measure electromagnetic spectrum ...
(more)Verizon, Comcast Say They Are P2P Friendly (Friday 23rd of May 2008 06:11:23 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "Verizon and Comcast announced they will not 'block or throttle data
highway traffic delivered via peer-to-peer networks' — fundamentally proclaiming that
they are now P2P friendly. The decision came as a result of a test ...
(more)Extracting Meaning From the Structure of Networks (Sunday 04th of May 2008 09:24:28 AM)
Roland Piquepaille writes "Networks are used to personify the structure of complex systems,
including the subject notification core or social networks, but often these descriptions are
biased or incomplete. Now, researchers at the Santa Fe prescript (SFI) ...
(more)Questionable Data Mining Concerns IRC Community (Sunday 02nd of December 2007 08:45:02 PM)
Jessekeys writes "Two days ago an article on TechCrunch about IRSeeK revealed to the hamlet
that a service logs conversations of public IRC channels and put them into a public searchable
database. What is especially shocking for the locality is that the ...
(more)The 4G war: has WiMAX won, or will Verizon choose LTE? (Monday 29th of October 2007 06:18:00 PM)
Filed under: CellphonesIn a wrap-up of the state of 4G networks over at BusinessWeek, the
battle between the three competing 4G network standards -- WIMAX, Long Term Evolution (LTE),
and Ultra Mobile Broadband (UM -- is appraised, with WIMAX clearly edging ...
(more)The Journey of Radios From Hardware to Software (Sunday 23rd of September 2007 10:00:03 PM)
An unclaimed reader writes "The New York Times is card-carrying* a story all about the
process of replacing radios with software. The article tells the tale of Vanu Bose, son of the
man who started the Bose company, and his quest to bring ...
(more)NSA Tasked With 'Policing' Government Networks (Saturday 22nd of September 2007 10:00:02 PM)
Novus Ordo Seclorum writes "The NSA has a new assignment. No longer merely responsible for
signals intelligence, the NSA now has the task of defending against cyber attacks on politics
and private networks. 'The plan calls for the NSA to work with the ...
(more)Used IT Gear Goes Mainstream (Tuesday 21st of August 2007 03:05:00 PM)
Ask any IT manager what they think about used data networking
gear and chances are their eyes
will light up. Six years after the
Telco bust, the secondary market for IT has grown up and
with it
companies have grown accustomed to buying used. But with ...
(more)Paris Hilton to go on Larry King show unpaid (Los Angeles Times) (Monday 25th of June 2007 11:00:02 AM)
The heiress nearing the end of a 23-day jail term, agreed to a one-hour live hearing on CNN
after the three broadcast networks spurned her request for a lucrative deal. NEW YORK "
After being spurned by the three broadcast networks, ...
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