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We return to our regular transmission
Blog Did you see the traffic cones on the site last night? Apologies to anyone who tried to post a comment or find an article — ZDNet UK had some downtime so that the Ops team could move our co-location facility.
[April 16, 2008, 14:13]
Vodafone launches 'fastest' wireless data service
Blog Communications giant Vodafone will launch a wireless mobile data transmission service with speeds of up to 7.2 MBits/s in Germany on Thursday. The technology will allow high speed mobile transmission of large data volumes for Vodafone's German...
[March 14, 2007, 15:50]
Nokia specifies its 10 Apple suit patents
Blog Data transmission in a radio telephone network Measurement report transmission in a telecommunications system Method and apparatus for speech transmission in a mobile communications system Method of ciphering data transmission in a radio system
[October 22, 2009, 17:33]
Trusting a supplier with your confidential data
Blog HTTPS is a reasonably robust and secure mechanism for the transmission of data. The data stored can only be accessed by the customer because only they can transmit the keys that are used to decrypt it, manipulate it and re-encrypt it ready for...
[July 23, 2007, 12:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The power is very low - the channel's used in adjacent counties, so interference is a possible - and the transmission is limited to the Crystal Palace mast, but apart from that the TV companies are free to send out what they like.
[June 23, 2006, 18:45]
NCC Vs NBC in the emerging convergence Regulation in Nigeria
Blog When transmission capacity for end-user sites reaches that needed for transmission of video services, the Internet can be one of the platforms for interactive TV services. With the launch last week of Mobile Tv by MTN and DSTV, It is goodbye to...
[May 7, 2008, 10:53]
Successful test of audio over CAT5
Blog I have just successfuly tested transmission of near-line-level audio over the cat5 cables I’ve recently finished installing. The amplifiers and matrix switcher have been installed for a while, but until now I’ve not performed any tests of sending...
[May 13, 2008, 10:44]
Adobe MAX is looking pretty Flash in Milan
Blog It has been ten years since I lived in Rome working as a satellite TV transmission controller - so my Italian is pretty rusty. Arriving in Milan for Adobe's MAX developer conference this week, I hoped my hosts wouldn't need as much re-oiling as I...
[December 2, 2008, 7:49]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The story isn't quite as mythologised, but today is the centenary of Marconi's first transatlantic transmission. Wednesday 12/12/2001 Happy birthday, radio! I'm a complete wireless nut in any case -- my treatise on the aesthetics and semiotics of...
[December 13, 2001, 14:07]
Toshiba developing quantum repeater
Blog The company is developing a quantum repeater, a device to regenerate a quantum key once quantum entanglement has been split into channels for transmission. Toshiba is developing a device it hopes will allow for global quantum key distribution.
[October 15, 2008, 17:15]
Vodafone and O2 could share networks
Blog Vodafone already has a similar-ish deal with Orange, although that arrangement is only for the sharing of sites, not actual transmission. According to reports in The Guardian and Mobile, O2 and Vodafone are about to announce a network-sharing deal.
[March 12, 2009, 14:44]
Turning up TV ads with data
Blog Embarrassingly, I used to work as a transmission engineer for a TV station in Rome - so I should know this - but I don’t. I need to settle a long running argument as to whether the TV companies can turn up the volume of advertisements by altering...
[March 9, 2008, 9:52]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Which means we now have a national digital TV transmission infrastructure going begging, with a range of cheap set-top boxes ready to roll, a wide range of channels from the BBC already available and lots of space to do something new.
[May 3, 2002, 17:43]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Internet Protocol (IP) and the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), together known as TCP/IP, were formally standardised in September 1981 by the publication of RFC 791 and RFC 793. Monday 16/10/2006
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
Friday
Blog Storage has always led data communications in bang per buck, and this has always been true -- in fact, we may be about to take a step backwards in transmission speeds when it will no longer be possible to fill Concorde with DVDs.
[July 11, 2003, 15:06]
Practical Implications of VoIP Reseller Program
Blog In fact, the transmission charges are also low compared to any other system of telephony. The VoIP reseller program is a single means of delivering low cost Voice over IP services by making use of the advantages of a fast Internet connection at...
[May 2, 2008, 10:03]
ISPs and govt to talk net neutrality
Blog National regulators will also have powers to intervene when the quality of service for transmission could be at risk. One of the most interesting aspects of this week's massive shakeup of EU telecoms rules was to do with net neutrality.
[November 16, 2007, 8:50]
Hannafords supermarket loses up to 4.2m records
Blog The stolen data was limited to credit and debit card numbers and expiration dates, and was illegally accessed from our computer systems during transmission of card authorization," said the release. Hannaford's chain of supermarkets in the US has...
[March 18, 2008, 17:16]
Spiralling security solutions
Blog As enterprise networks continue to become increasingly accessible, so do the risks that information will be intercepted or altered in transmission. It seems to me like there’s more and more regulatory pressure burgeoning everyday at the moment...
[September 16, 2007, 14:55]
Summer is still on Strike. Well I guess its still Spring in Texas.
Blog I've got an automatic transmission otherwise I would have assumed that it was my left foot slipping off the clutch. Was going to the nearby (actually nearest) grocery store to pick up hamburger meat for my almost famous gringo tacos.
[June 22, 2008, 11:24]
