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RSS stationMobile Ubuntu invites developers to build
News Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device Edition works on two devices at present, the Samsung Q1U and the Intel Crown Beach development station, for building devices using Intel's Atom processor. Canonical this week released its... [26 Jun 2008]
Femtocells: Europeans clueless on mobile access tech
News However, once the potential benefits of the home base station tech are explained a significant chunk want one, a survey has found. Most people in Europe are still blissfully unaware of what a femtocell is. [23 Jun 2008]
WiMax Forum stamps 2.5G products with seal of approval
News The WiMax Forum is the only consortium to certify base-station equipment, which is key to ensure true network interoperability and a high quality of service among user devices and network equipment. Earlier this week the... [20 Jun 2008]
Photos: silicon.com hanging by a rope
Photo The silicon.com editorial team was invited down to Colt's office near London's Liverpool Street station to abseil down eight storeys to raise money for children's charity, Childhood First. For each successful abseil, the... [17 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Martin Taylor, group CIO, LCH.Clearnet
Comment A keen sailor for more than 30 years - although he admits to now getting into motorboats to the "utter disgust" of his sailing buddies - he served for 18 months as a volunteer lifeboat man on the River Thames out of the Chiswick... [17 Jun 2008]
Free wi-fi arrives in York station
News Travellers using York railway station can now enjoy free wi-fi while they wait for their train. Station manager and train operator National Express East Coast has introduced free wireless internet across... [13 Jun 2008]
How Two Retired Navy Veterans Help New Recruits at the Great Lakes Naval Station Stay Connected With Family and Friends Without Torpedoing Their Paychecks
White Paper Web access for sailors stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Station is limited, slow, and lacks printers to make prints of letters from home, course assignments and pay information. Offsite locations are several miles... [12 Jun 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo Energy supplier EDF is building the on-site sub-station, seen here. As the beating heart of business, data centres store and process the information that keeps UK Plc afloat. At a secret location north of London,... [11 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Cell broadband engines, used in the Play Station 3 (PS3), work in conjunction with AMD x86 processors. Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop - 1,000 trillion floating point... [11 Jun 2008]
Paper-free train tickets on track
News Travellers will be able to buy smart tickets online using their mobile phone or PC and then download them onto a smartcard at home via a plug-in reader or at a station. Travellers will be able to get paperless rail... [04 Jun 2008]
BlackBerrys on the beat
News The BlackBerry devices - which will use the Orange network - will allow police officers to spend more time on the beat as they can remotely access systems they currently have to return to the police station for. [03 Jun 2008]
£50m mobile funding to keep police on the beat
News The aim is to increase the time police officers can spend on the beat by cutting down on paper work and reducing the need to return to the police station to file reports. The funding was announced by policing minister,... [27 May 2008]
Nasa Mars probe safely touches down
News The first images from the Phoenix Mars Lander have confirmed that the solar panels needed for its energy supply unfolded as planned and that masts for its camera and weather station are in position. A successful... [27 May 2008]
Council plugs free internet for tenants
News The base station is located five miles away on a Solihull Community Housing (the organisation that oversees council housing for the authority) building. Solihull Metropolitan Council is planning to offer housing tenants... [21 May 2008]
A Practical Guide to WiMAX Antennas: MIMO and Beamforming Technical Overview
White Paper Revolutionary multiple antenna techniques at the base station and end-user device, paired with sophisticated signal processing, can dramatically improve the communications link for the most demanding application... [21 May 2008]
