Tracking mobile phones with triangulation has come in handy for locating stranded tourists after the tsunami in Sri Lanka. Using “cell triangulation”, more than 600 people had been tracked with the use of mobile phones along the devastated areas. Thirty-six stranded British tourists were rescued early Tuesday thanks to a mobile phone with one of [...]
Airspan Networks is buying ArelNet Ltd. for an aggregate purchase price of $8,700,000, with $4,000,000 to be paid in cash and $4,700,000 in shares of Airspan. Airspan is a leading provider of broadband wireless access solutions for both licensed and unlicensed operators worldwide. Airspan’s current generation of products includes systems that can support voice over [...]
Trimble, a leading innovator of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, acquired the privately held Pacific Crest Corporation this month. Pacific Crest Corporation specializes in products applicable to outdoor operating environments around the world. Their Environmental Data Links are rugged, reliable, radio modems that connect sensors to computers. Pacific Crest’s products include solutions for precision RTK [...]
Sirius Satellite Radio says holiday sales helped push its subscriber base over the 1 million mark, while rival XM Satellite Radio reports its customer numbers have topped 3.1 million. New York-based Sirius and Washington, DC-based XM are the two main players in the emerging U.S. satellite radio business. Sirius recently signed shock jock Howard Stern [...]
Time Warner Cable is reportedly working with Sprint on a deal that would allow the cable provider to offer cellphone service on a trial basis next year, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Time Warner is the country’s second-largest cable operator with nearly 11 million subscribers and would be the only major cable company to [...]
The horrific tsuami this Sunday is one of the worst disasters in recorded history. The death toll has topped 150,000 with more than 500,000 estimated injured. Without clean water, respiratory and waterborne diseases could break out within days, putting millions at “grave risk,” the U.N. children’s agency said. Only four other earthquakes on record were [...]
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