In 2005, 89% of air travelers were opposed to mobile phones on airplanes. Another survey put the number at 63% against. There were even concerns of air rage. And in January, an Orbitz study found ...
Ultra-low-power ZigBee-based wireless mesh networks, powered by a variety of energy-harvesting technologies, make it possible to create the first truly wireless and battery-less sense and control ...
Ever dream of designing a toaster that sears a design of your own making on a piece of bread? If that's the kind of project you might like to tackle in your spare time, Microsoft has a new program ...
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How useful would email be if you could only send a message to someone else who used the same ISP? It would be pointless -- imagine, a Verizon customer being unable to send an email to an AT&T ...
Sales of Wi-Fi phones increased by more than 60 percent last year, according to Infonetics Research, as vendors have done more to support wireless IP (Internet Protocol) telephony. Last year ...
No network cable has ever touched my Macbook. It's wireless or nothing, folks. In fact, my house has been completely wireless for almost a decade. It's a different story if you walk few hundred feet ...
"WiMax is an interesting technology but it suffers from being 'first' and from being designed by the computer industry with almost no input from the telecoms industry. The latter may be a bunch ...
Adobe has confirmed it will develop a version of Flash Player for the iPhone.The news ends months of speculation on the matter. Apple CEO Steve Jobs this month said that Flash Player for mobile ...
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) has highlighted the need to provide computing to kids in the developing world, but headlines surrounding the group's $100 laptop PC have attracted a ...