The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe, is the largest scientific instrument on the planet. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will generate so much data that a Global Grid will be activated in Cern to capture the data it generates.
The “red button” day, when [...]
The CTIA is aligning with television broadcasters, and urging FCC to license — and auction — TV white spaces, reports RCR Wireless News.
The Cellular trade group floated the idea shortly after Google offered a compromise proposal to unleash propagation-friendly TV white spaces for unlicensed wireless broadband access. Google’s proposal relies on a Motorola technology [...]
Adopting a “white spaces” vision, Google is resurrected the 700 MHz band this week with a letter to the FCC presenting its plans to provide wireless Internet access to the entire U.S. (FCC pdf).
Google and other technology companies including Intel, Philips and Microsoft have pressed the FCC to open up the unused TV airwaves [...]
While at an RV show this weekend, I saw a mobile WiFi router with a cellular booster amp for WiFi access in remote places. The $795 kit delivers a solid cellular signal where regular phones can’t and the WiFi router is smaller, cheaper and faster than satellite connections.
I talked to Rob Taylo whose [...]
Several US carriers have committed to fleet trials of in-flight video, texting or WiFi in their domestic operations.
They include Alaska Airlines (Row 44, single-aircraft trial), American Airlines (AirCell, 15-aircraft trial), Continental (LiveTV, 737 and 757 fleet fits), JetBlue (LiveTV, single-aircraft trial), Southwest (Row 44, four-aircraft trial) and Virgin America (AirCell).
The website for [...]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded funding to four contractor teams (pdf) for the first phase of the Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft demonstration program (F-6).
Fractionated Spacecraft operate like a WiFi mesh in the sky. Instead of a $1 Billion, 10,000-pound spacecraft (that doesn’t work), smaller funtional modules - orbiting [...]
At Microsoft’s TechFest yesterday, Rick Rashid, senior VP of Microsoft Research, highlighting numerous projects being developed at the labs.
Microsoft Research opened its doors to the press yesterday, showcasing some 40 new technologies on display while today and Thursday, about 7,000 Microsoft employees are expected to tour a full collection of 150 research projects at [...]
Space Data Corp is getting a lot of press about its plan to provide specialized telecom services to truckers and oil companies via balloons. The Wall Street Journal has a good video (below), explaining how it works.
The article says Google is interested in using the technology, even buying the company. The Air Force conducted [...]
The Nike+ line of products, that connect to Nike shoes to Apple’s iPod, use a wireless sensor to give you real-time feedback during workouts and let you track your performance on your Mac or PC.
Now it may be moving to a Nike-banded bracelet, if FCC reports are any indication.
The expected bracelet would also communicates [...]
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. — Abraham Lincoln
TechCrunch may have the scoop on what made Robert Scoble cry:
A source close to Microsoft says [...]
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