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Update: EToys makes shock announcement to partners
News The worry is that eToys' move may signal to established sites that associate programs are something they no longer need to bother with. Alternatively, the move could well simply signal the demise of the UK operation.
[December 22, 2000, 21:10]
Monitor glow may give away secrets
News The light emitted from each pixel of phosphor will peak as the pixel is hit with electrons, creating a pulsating signal that bathes a room. By averaging the signal that reflects from a particular wall over nearly a second and doing some fancy...
[May 14, 2002, 14:56]
Locator
Downloads Speed unit: you can set the preferred speed unit for displaying and uploading.DisplayThe received location information is displayed below the cell id and signal strength. imei=351112222233333&cell=12345&mcc=216&mnc=1&lac=120&lat=4710.1058N&long...
[August 27, 2004, 8:00]
60 GHz networking, the story so far
Blog One radio engineer i talked to pointed out that, at these extremely high frequencies, you can counter the much greater loss of signal by making very small yet very high gain antennas. One an inch across could easily add 25dB of oomph, and beam the...
[October 22, 2007, 18:39]
Ultrawideband: The latest chipset unveiled
News We convert the radio signal to digital as quickly as we can when receiving, and leave the transmit signal as digital for as long as we can before actually transmitting it. Californian company Pulse~LINK has been developing ultrawideband systems for...
[May 11, 2004, 15:40]
Looking for True Permanence in File Storage
Blog At the same data density, blue laser light, a relatively short wavelength, used in DVDs has the ability to enable a better signal/signal+noise ratio compared to the longer red laser wavelength used for CDs.
[May 9, 2008, 11:47]
Quantum codes, deep space and utter geek delight
Blog Viterbi works by observing the damage done to a noisy signal and calculating the most probable original state of that signal before it got damaged. Normally you just want the information in the signal - the details of what happened to it in transit...
[August 5, 2008, 0:27]
Handsets hold key to Vivendi vote 'piracy'
News What is certain is that the 4000 handsets supplied that day, which sent their signal by radio to a central computer in the meeting room, were responsible for 20 percent of the vote. According to one expert in radio security it would certainly be...
[May 8, 2002, 15:56]
Geekender Gallery: IDF 2009
News Each individual USB signal is rapidly tweaked and the results carefully analysed, at the sort of speeds that only five years ago would have needed a box the size of the Tardis to manage. Or rather, they don't - they contain just enough silicon to...
[September 25, 2009, 17:04]
Ruckus updates 802.11n Wi-Fi portfolio
News Ruckus's dynamic beamforming antenna technology, which is called BeamFlex, selects the best signal path for each packet of data. The company, which targets small and medium-sized businesses, says BeamFlex also increases signal coverage and...
[March 10, 2009, 16:18]
Photos: WiMax in action
News Of course, something has to pick up the signal on the other end, and here are a few of Airspan’s Easy-ST subscriber terminals. Lightley said the team was "pleasantly surprised in terms of indoor coverage" of the WiMax signal, even through double...
[June 22, 2006, 11:50]
Intel to reveal chip-packing breakthrough
News Processor power requirements also continue to climb, as do noise, heat and the possibility of signal interference. More direct connections mean quicker power transfer and better signal integrity. Intel on Monday is unveiling an entirely new design...
[October 8, 2001, 10:06]
Microsoft Voice Command 1.5
Downloads They can get signal strength, battery level, time and date by voice. and the name of the song and artist will be read to youVoice-Controlled Utilities: Start any program in the Start menu or programs folder, such as Inbox, Calculator or...
[November 17, 2006, 7:00]
Pocket RTA
Downloads Internal Signal Generator Touch screen plotting of nearest point with frequency and decibel readout. Selectable signal decay speeds. Selectable signal gain control. is a highly portable real-time spectrum analyser for your PC and Pocket PC.
[May 30, 2003, 8:00]
New technology hides data inside music files
News The new Stealth MediaLabs technology works by encoding binary data inside the stereo audio signal itself, taking advantage of acoustical properties and human hearing characteristics to make it imperceptible to the listener.
[March 21, 2003, 8:25]
Micron shows first DDR-II memory demo
News One way the company has improved signal quality, said Lee, is by adding line terminators -- much like the ones used at the end of SCSI daisy chains. Line termination was introduced in DDR-I-based DDR266 memory modules in the form of resistors...
[July 11, 2002, 15:44]
Virgin takes Wi-Fi up the west coast
News With tunnels, we'll drop the signal at one side, and pick it up again on the other," said McEwen-King, pointing out that only a few passengers -- such as someone on a video-conferencing call -- would be seriously disrupted by this, as people...
[August 19, 2003, 9:39]
Microsoft Voice Command (Upgrade for Pocket PC Only)- US Version
Downloads You can get signal strength, battery level, time and date by voice. and the name of the song and artist will be read to youVoice-Controlled Utilities: Start any program in the Start menu or programs folder, such as Inbox, Calculator or...
[October 30, 2003, 7:00]
Microsoft Voice Command--US Version (Smartphone only)
Downloads You can get signal strength, battery level, time and date by voice. and the name of the song and artist will be read to youVoice-Controlled Utilities: Start any program in the Start menu or programs folder, such as Inbox, Calculator or...
[November 13, 2006, 7:00]
Arpanet creator aims to boost internet speeds
News The FR-1000 Flow Router also will allow service providers to offer a sort of busy signal for video and voice, so that people could be alerted if the network were too swamped. Today, packet networks don't know how to give a busy signal the way the...
[August 7, 2007, 13:15]
