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Galileo phones home

News A test satellite for the European Galileo programme, Giove-B, has successfully transmitted radio signals which will one day be used as the basis for satellite navigation in Europe. Giove-B became the second Galileo test satellite to be put into...

Tags: gps, signal, europe, sat nav

[09 May 2008]

Nationwide WiMax in next two years?

News S is for Satellite Speaking at a roundtable discussion yesterday, Ashish Patel said the long-range wireless technology would find an enthusiastic audience among the users of mini-notebooks and other portable web-surfing devices.

Tags: 3g, wimax

[09 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News S is for Satellite According to the report, in-body networks could be implanted in patients to monitor their movements and/or vital health signs, such as blood sugar level, and to send data wirelessly via a home hub or portable monitor to keep...

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

Mobile M2M connections on the up

News S is for Satellite Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… A is for Antivirus B is for Bluetooth C is for The Cloud D is for dotMobi E is for Email F is for FMC G is for GPS H is for HSDPA

Tags: ecall, telematics, m2m

[06 May 2008]

Geographic database opens doors to private sector

News The value of the NLPG is huge, with companies dealing in fields such as insurance, customer profiling, logistics and satellite navigation potentially finding uses for the database. A national geographical electronic database is now available for...

Tags: local authorities, database

[30 Apr 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News S is for Satellite phones An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per cent) of European doctors use a computer - and almost half (48 per cent) have a broadband connection. The report - entitled Benchmarking ICT use among General...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News Change is stirring in the heart of rural India as computer-filled business process outsourcing (BPO) units spring up next to rough shacks, and village patients receive diagnoses from doctors hundreds of miles away via satellite link.

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software

News S is for Satellite phones BT is offering NetSuite's business management applications and will soon provide customer relationship management (CRM) software from SugarCRM. Broadband from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: smes, saas, crm, bt

[22 Apr 2008]

Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010

News S is for Satellite phones The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. Speaking at a Westminster eForum on web 2.0 this week in London...

Tags: web, web 2.0, isps, government

[21 Apr 2008]

Europe embracing speedy fat pipes

News S is for Satellite phones Around three-quarters (77 per cent) of businesses in Europe are now using high speed broadband, according to the European Commission's latest i2010 progress report. This compares to 62 per cent in 2005.

Tags: online, i2010, eu, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

Tesco to launch iTunes challenger

News S is for Satellite phones Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media format with around half (1.6 million) also available as MP3s. Broadband from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: mp3, online, digital music, itunes

[15 Apr 2008]

Coffee Republic to offer free wi-fi

News S is for Satellite Coffee Republic will become the first UK coffee chain to provide free wi-fi to customers when it launches the service across the majority of its UK chain from 1 May 2008. Wireless from A to Z

Tags: wi-fi, coffee republic

[14 Apr 2008]

WiMax to pip LTE 3G at the post?

News S is for Satellite Teresa Kellett, director of global development for telco Sprint Nextel, said during a panel discussion at this week's WiMax Forum Asia 2008 that WiMax's first-mover advantage over the long-term evolution of 3G (LTE) may...

Tags: 4g, 3g, wimax

[11 Apr 2008]

In-flight mobiles to take off over Europe

News In-flight mobile services operate via onboard picocell technology and a satellite link connecting the aircraft to mobile networks on the ground. Last year, the EC also stepped in to simplify the rollout of mobile satellite services across Europe.

Tags: airlines, reding, in-flight

[08 Apr 2008]

3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth

News S is for Satellite phones There are now 637 high speed downlink packet access products on the market, with almost half (303) of them being mobile phones. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.

Tags: mobile broadband, 3.5g, hsdpa

[07 Apr 2008]

'Super-3Gs' get connected via the Gobi

News S is for Satellite Gobi, which Qualcomm released in October 2007, is a chipset that allows travellers to connect to both High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Evolution-Data Optimised (EV-DO) networks. Both are types of "super-3G", but are incompatible.

Tags: hp, wireless, lenovo, dell

[07 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! to 'revolutionise' mobile search with OneSearch

News S is for Satellite Yahoo! announced upgrades to its Yahoo! OneSearch product at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas yesterday, which it says make mobile search smarter, more relevant and easier to use with voice-activation technology.

Tags: web, mobile, search, yahoo

[03 Apr 2008]

Dongle mania to kill off wi-fi hotspots?

News S is for Satellite The Infonetics Research Mobility: Broadband, Phones, Subscribers and Services report predicts the mobile data card market will be worth $2.9bn by 2011, after nearly quadrupling in size between 2007 and 2011.

Tags: data card, wi-fi, mobile broadband

[28 Mar 2008]

High speed TGV trains get online

News The system automatically switches to the wi-fi terminals - with a transmission range tweaked to cope with the high speeds - when the antenna on the train loses its line of sight with the Eutelsat satellite.

Tags: wi-fi, train, satellite, charge

[26 Mar 2008]

In-flight mobile gets Ofcom thumbs up

News S is for Satellite Calls will use the aircraft's network services and be routed via satellite to ground-based mobile networks. Click on the links below to find out more… A is for Antivirus B is for Bluetooth

Tags: calls, mobile, ofcom, planes

[26 Mar 2008]

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