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BT joins forces with Arqiva, Detica for smart meter bid

...an agreement with Arqiva and Detica to offer "a dedicated and secure long-range radio communications solution for the government's proposed smart-metering initiative... Read more

19 July, 2010 by David Meyer

O2 rolls out long-range 3G broadband in 'key cities

...O2 has turned on its long-range 3G service, using spectrum that until recently it had only been... Read more

18 March, 2011 by David Meyer
Self-Organization of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks as Small Worlds Using <endeca_term>Long Range</endeca_term> Directional Beams

Self-Organization of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks as Small Worlds Using Long Range Directional Beams

The authors study how long range directional beams can be used for self-organization of a wireless... Read more

25 September, 2011
<endeca_term>Long Range</endeca_term> Wireless Sensor Networks With Transmit-Only Nodes and Software De Ned Receivers

Long Range Wireless Sensor Networks With Transmit-Only Nodes and Software De Ned Receivers

Wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring and agricultural applications often face long-range requirements at low bit-rates together with large numbers of nodes... Read more

22 July, 2010
A Low Power-<endeca_term>Long Range</endeca_term> Active RFID-System Consisting of Active RFID Backscatter Transponders

A Low Power-Long Range Active RFID-System Consisting of Active RFID Backscatter Transponders

The emerging need for long range identifying systems indeed points out that the diversity in RFID technology... Read more

19 June, 2010
An Autonomous <endeca_term>Long Range</endeca_term> Monitoring System for Emergency Operators

An Autonomous Long Range Monitoring System for Emergency Operators

...the surrounding environment. This paper deals with the development of an autonomous Long Range communication System (LRS), suitable to transmit data between operators' equipment and... Read more

1 February, 2011
Convergence Speed of the Consensus Algorithm With Interference and Sparse <endeca_term>Long-Range</endeca_term> Connectivity

Convergence Speed of the Consensus Algorithm With Interference and Sparse Long-Range Connectivity

The authors analyze the effect of interference on the convergence rate of average consensus algorithms, which... Read more

15 February, 2011
SCADA for the Rest of Us: Unlicensed Bands Supporting <endeca_term>Long-Range</endeca_term> Communications

SCADA for the Rest of Us: Unlicensed Bands Supporting Long-Range Communications

The authors are on the cusp of the next big wave in Internet and wireless technology for the mass market: the emergence... Read more

2 October, 2010
<endeca_term>Long-Range</endeca_term> CAN: to Enhance the Performance of Content-Addressable Networks

Long-Range CAN: to Enhance the Performance of Content-Addressable Networks

Distributed hash table algorithms construct structured P2P networks to control the communication cost of resource... Read more

28 June, 2010

Diamonds demo quantum entanglement on a macro scale

Researchers working in the UK’s Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford have demonstrated long range quantum entanglement in two synthetic diamonds, at room temperature. Those last... Read more

6 December, 2011
Wireless Water Quality Monitoring in the ISM Frequency Band: A Software and Cognitive Radio Approach

Wireless Water Quality Monitoring in the ISM Frequency Band: A Software and Cognitive Radio Approach

A long-range transmission demonstrator for low data rate environmental sensor networks is under... Read more

11 July, 2011
DARP: Distance-Aware Relay Placement in WiMAX Mesh Networks

DARP: Distance-Aware Relay Placement in WiMAX Mesh Networks

...16) is the fourth generation standard for low-cost, high-speed and long-range wireless communications for a large variety of civilian and military applications... Read more

1 February, 2011
Capacity of Composite Networks: Combining Social and Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Capacity of Composite Networks: Combining Social and Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

The authors define composite networks when nodes communicate only with their long-range social contacts and there is no direct link between a node... Read more

5 January, 2011
Queuing Processes in GPS and PGPS With LRD Traffic Inputs

Queuing Processes in GPS and PGPS With LRD Traffic Inputs

Long Range Dependent (LRD) traffic whose single server queue process is Weibull Bounded... Read more

1 January, 2011
New 4G auction plan could clear deadlock

New 4G auction plan could clear deadlock

...there would be at least four major operators capable of wholesaling viable, long-range 4G connectivity to smaller providers such as Virgin Mobile; Three or... Read more

12 January, 2012 by David Meyer

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

4 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

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Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

8 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

9 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

10 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Burn-IT

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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