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News Burst: Radio waves to shake BT's broadband dominance
News The government is to announce the auction of significant parts of the radio spectrum, offering a low-cost alternative to high-speed Internet access. In reports experts agree the technology will be better than BT's ADSL offering.
[July 5, 1999, 10:33]
Schools panic over WiFi
Blog Comment Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who think all mobile and WiFi radio waves are dangerous (yet strangely FM radio waves are not. Samtheman1k, your thoughts are shared. How do we change these people's minds?
[November 21, 2006, 15:20]
Will Wi-Fi overwhelm satellite radio?
News The two wireless industries broadcast their signals on radio waves separated by only a small buffer. Radio waves from different services have to coexist in the air, and while putting them on different frequencies keeps them separate it is...
[April 8, 2002, 14:56]
Terahertz camera takes snapshot of the future
News Terahertz radiation lies on the boundary between radio and light waves and is far more difficult to detect and analyse than either, but is of huge interest for medical, security, environmental and communication uses; the technology could, for...
[February 11, 2003, 13:35]
Motorola denies mobile phone cancer shield claims
News The company admitted that it is trying to find ways to reduce the amount of radio waves emitted by a mobile phone, but insisted that public concern that the handsets can cause brain tumours was not the driving force behind the work.
[June 14, 2001, 8:39]
Swedes to unravel the secrets of solar storms
News The organisations will use stream-computing technology to analyse data from sensors that track high-frequency radio waves, the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) said in a statement. IBM said in a statement that the data will be collected...
[June 5, 2009, 14:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Yet tell them that nobody's been able to prove that radio waves will never hurt them -- an impossible demand -- and they start ranting on as if aliens had landed and were preparing to suck out Junior's brains through a dirty straw.
[March 26, 2002, 10:11]
The future of Radio Frequency Identification
News Using an RFID reader, the electronic identity (code in the form of several bits of data) can be read wirelessly using radio waves. Because it uses radio waves, no line of sight is required and RFID tags embedded inside an object can be sensed.
[August 18, 2003, 14:55]
Two-piece mobile phone cuts radiation
News Since the case can be shelved up to 10m away, the caller is exposed to low-powered radio waves instead of the potentially hazardous emissions of mobile phones, claimed Stuart Tan, Group Sense business development manager.
[May 16, 2002, 9:41]
MIT unveils wireless-power device
News Various methods of transmitting power wirelessly have been known for some time — such as radio waves or Wi-Fi. But, while such examples are excellent for the wireless transmission of information, they are not feasible for substantial power...
[June 11, 2007, 9:54]
Swimming against the wireless tide
News Traditional wireless devices use radio waves to deliver telephone calls, e-mails or a Web page. The waves are assigned small areas of spectrum -- typically 6MHz -- to travel through on their way to a cell phone, laptop or PDA (personal digital...
[July 2, 2002, 10:35]
Handel by nanotube
Blog Passing radio waves tweak that charge, and set the whole thing a-trembling. When the radio waves and the mechanical resonant frequency of the nanobristle coincide, lots of energy is coupled to the tube from the radio signal and it dances like a...
[November 1, 2007, 17:22]
School WiFi panic provokes debate
Blog You can read his post for yourself, but in a nutshell he says he has found significant voltage levels in tests in a room full of WiFi users, and he draws the similarity between WiFi and cellular radio waves.
[November 22, 2006, 12:39]
Did you correct for your own radio properties?
Talkback Human bodies absorb radio waves. Is it possible that the two of you have different radio characteristics that might have altered the results and given 5GHz an unfair advantage?
[August 26, 2008, 8:16]
Integration of RFID and Cellular Technologies
White Papers Radio Frequency Identification or RFID, is a method of identifying unique items using radio waves. RFID is a promising technology for many corporations that seek to improve their processes, increase productivity and achieve a competitive advantage.
[February 17, 2006, 0:01]
Security for BlackBerry Devices With Bluetooth Wireless Technology
White Papers Bluetooth wireless technology uses radio waves to enable mobile devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs and laptops, to establish wireless connections with other devices that are in short range. Unfortunately, wireless networks and devices are not...
[September 7, 2006, 3:18]
Researchers claim stealth encryption breakthrough
Talkback This type of trick people have been trying since World War II with normal radio waves. Old news and not accurate . Since you can easily detect, with the right equipment, the higher energy densities of parts of the spectrum that contain the extra...
[October 16, 2006, 23:30]
Understanding the Key Issues in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
White Papers Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an automated data collection (ADC) system that enables businesses to wirelessly capture and move data using radio waves. A typical system consists of "tags" with an embedded, unique identifier for the...
[August 2, 2005, 0:00]
Mysterious black radio ops in London
Blog Comment If radio waves were fired up into the ionosphere with enough intensity, and the ionosphere could be pushed up, the resulting vacum effect would cause air to rush in and fill the gap thus gaining the people with the antennae the ability to control...
[November 19, 2008, 17:03]
Mysterious black radio ops in London
Blog Comment Hmmm.could it fire radio waves at comuters and servers and create an image of what's stored on the drives? Seriously though I've put it out there so I'll share what I get back.edit/ one answer came back as "collecting mobile or wireless data coverage"
[November 19, 2008, 17:13]
