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Echelon: How it works
News Although microwaves can be tightly focussed, using parabolic antenna in the same way that car headlights use a curved reflector, some signals always go past their destination and fire out into space and the waiting satellites -- this is thought to...
[June 29, 2000, 11:09]
Not so bright at The Economist
Blog While the light source itself may convert 50 percent of the microwave signal to light, generating the microwaves themselves isn't nearly as efficient. There are more efficient sources of microwaves - your oven has one - but they're not at all...
[June 22, 2007, 10:23]
Spinning electrons will speed up chips
News Led by the University of Bath, the international three-year effort will investigate the use of microwaves on chip to replace electrical wiring. A brand new physical effect may prove invaluable to chip makers seeking to speed up their designs, if a...
[June 23, 2006, 10:40]
How Bluetooth Works
White Papers This includes automobile security systems, other wireless devices, and other noise sources, such as microwaves. Bluetooth devices will normally operate at 2.4 GHZ in the license free, globally available ISM radio band.
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
Pollution
Downloads Air, water, soil, microwaves, Pollution lists details about each polluting source found as well as the consequences of each pollutant. By combining and crossing information extracted from numerous public databases, Pollution displays graphical...
[July 20, 2009, 9:32]
Service Monitor
Downloads Ideal for motor vehicles, computers, washing machines, microwaves, central heating, cameras, fridges, and freezers.Version 1.1 adds automated registration. Service Monitor allows you to record your serviceable possessions and print out the details...
[October 9, 2006, 14:06]
Motorola and MIT to create thinking chips
News Motorola estimates that several billion of its processors are embedded in devices throughout the world right now -- from cars to cell phones to microwaves. Motorola Inc.is donating $5m (£3m) to the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of...
[March 16, 1999, 13:12]
802.11g approved, 802.11n is next in line
Talkback The theory is 54Mbit, in reality this is reduced 1 by overhead, 2 by either radio interference (like microwaves, cell phones, etc.or thick walls of concrete with some houses having 1 or more floors between access point and client.
[February 25, 2004, 13:22]
Bluetooth: Still a few bumps in the road
News More problematic is possible interference between Bluetooth 1.1 devices and 802.11b wireless LANs, cordless telephones, and microwaves. In a March 2002 report, Gartner urged the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) to address security matters...
[June 23, 2002, 21:57]
Action 2000 calls for bug free guarantee
News According to Guenier, the failure of microwaves and video recorders is not a big worry. Action 2000 has joined calls for products at risk from the millennium bug to be sold with some form of guarantee for the consumer.
[January 11, 1999, 15:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And you get the really good stuff -- portability, flexibility and a nice warm glow in your nether regions where the microwaves get cooking -- with either. Tuesday 22/01/2002 First tests are in on new wireless standard 802.11a -- nominal speed...
[January 25, 2002, 15:56]
3Com splits standards allegiance
News The 802.11a standard has not been as popular as the others, but uses part of the radio spectrum that does not interfere with cordless phones and microwaves, the way the 802.11b and 802.11g standards do in the 2.4GHz radio spectrum.
[November 11, 2003, 10:20]
Powerline networking charges up
News Wi-Fi products are also known to have interference glitches with cordless phones and microwaves. Network gear makers are surging at the potential of powerline technology, as a complement to wireless products and as a differentiating feature for...
[March 10, 2003, 10:57]
Study claims mobile base stations are safe
News Its statement also accused the researchers of "unethical" behaviour in exposing their volunteers to harm, and questioned the use of psychologists in the face of "evidence showing changes in the important mast cells in human skin upon exposure to...
[July 25, 2007, 12:55]
A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog Comment I spent 7 years working for the UK NRPB including on the hazards of microwaves .no thanks. AC/DC? Me again. The subect I read and replied to was about the end of the grid and distribution going DC, not just LED lights.
[July 13, 2007, 20:32]
CES: It's the triumph of the nerds
News Both Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have created networking technologies aimed at linking traditional appliances -- such as microwaves and washing machines. Just a few short years ago when these consummate geeks spoke, the only ones who really...
[January 6, 2000, 10:07]
Samsung says only G&A roles affected in restructuring
News Samsung currently employs around 2,000 people in the UK making PC monitors, microwaves and audio-visual equipment. The Korean giant said that it was instead reducing marketing and management support headcount as it seeks to move to a country-based...
[January 20, 1998, 11:13]
Zigbee will spring into action this year
News The spec operates in the 2.4GHz radio band -- the same band as the 802.11b standard, microwaves and cordless phones -- over 16 channels. Two Taiwan-based chip design houses have announced that their Zigbee products will be launched towards the end...
[April 11, 2003, 14:24]
Ethernet creator talks up potential of ZigBee
News It operates in the 2.4GHz radio band -- the same band as the 802.11b standard, microwaves and cordless phones -- over 16 channels. Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, predicted last week that the ZigBee wireless standard would be hugely...
[October 11, 2004, 17:35]
Microsoft millionaire opens wallet for ZigBee start-up
News The spec operates in the 2.4GHz radio band -- the same band as the 802.11b standard, microwaves and cordless phones -- over 16 channels. Ember, a start-up that is developing chips for ZigBee -- the low-cost, low-power wireless networking standard...
[October 1, 2004, 14:20]
