satellite tech
RSS satellite techVisa launches mobile payments platform
News S is for Satellite The platform has a number of applications and tools designed to increase collaboration between financial services and mobile tech companies via NFC, a short-range wireless technology similar to RFID that is commonly used for... [10 Jan 2007]
Mobile M2M connections on the up
News S is for Satellite CDMA was the second largest tech - strong in North America and parts of Asia-Pacific, while WCDMA has so far primary been adopted for M2M apps in Japan. But the analyst predicts vehicle telematics - aka wireless vehicle comms... [06 May 2008]
The A to Z of wireless
News S is for Satellite S is for Satellite Global Positioning System (GPS) is a US satellite system that can pinpoint exact locations, assisting navigation and location-based services. S is for Satellite So far it has mainly been used for in-car... [28 Nov 2006]
Jet packs, army tech and Victorian gadgets
Photo The Proton Breeze M rocket has successfully launched the third Inmarsat-4 (I-4) satellite, which weighs more than six tonnes and is the size of a London double-decker bus. This satellite (pictured here during integration) will increase Inmarsat's... [02 Sep 2008]
Motorists hit back on road pricing
News As Cochrane pointed out, concerns have already been raised about the availability of devices capable of jamming the satellite signals that could be used to make such road pricing schemes possible. And silicon.com readers - many clearly very unhappy... [18 Jun 2007]
Pay-as-you-drive car tax tracking: It's on
News Transport Secretary Alistair Darling has confirmed the government is looking at introducing a pay-as-you-drive system of road tax, with satellite tracking being Whitehall's preferred way of monitoring the motoring habits of the UK. [09 Jun 2005]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Offshoring, Cairo and KFC
Comment Try a row of satellite dishes and the local KFC. The government is shoring up its tech credentials by building a 'Smart Village' to host its new tech companies out on the Cairo ring road. silicon.com is proud to introduce a new column by our... [14 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Galileo
Cheat Sheet The need for a European global satellite navigation system was first identified in the mid-1990s when the EU got together with the European Space Agency (ESA) to build a civilian-controlled satellite network. [28 Jan 2008]
Ofcom plots digital dividend free-for-all
News S is for Satellite Operators will be given flexibility in what they do with the spectrum and by allowing them to decide what services to offer and giving them the freedom to change their use of it over time as technologies and marketplace needs... [14 Dec 2007]
Huawei's $1bn R&D pot 'matches Western rivals'
News The vast Huawei campus in Shenzhen, just near the Hong Kong border, covers an acreage any small metropolitan satellite in the UK would be proud of. In February silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited the Indian tech hotspots of Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune... [06 Sep 2007]
Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear
News S is for Satellite Outside healthcare, the report points to many future applications of wireless tech in the transport sector, including road-to-vehicle and car-to-car comms technology to alert drivers to traffic jams to help reduce congestion... [08 May 2008]
ITU 06 diary - Wi-fi on 'the beach', what's hot in mobile search and a long tail with legs
Comment Other long-awaited offerings appeared yesterday too, including Thuraya's latest satellite and what it claims are the smallest ever satellite phones. The operator announced the satellite will launch next year and it hopes to capture 30,000 new users... [06 Dec 2006]
Social networking "white elephant" warning
News S is for Satellite phones There is also little evidence that social networking will be as beneficial for businesses as other web-based communications tech such as instant messaging and VoIP. Ultimately, Gartner suggests, the value of social... [13 Dec 2007]
Editor's Blog: Toshiba laptops, Betfair Down Under and CIO-types
Comment OK, the ad is strictly speaking for the new Tecra and Satellite Pro models, which have not been affected by the battery problems, rather than the affected run of Dynabook and Dynabook Satellite laptops from the spring of this year. [20 Sep 2006]
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. [26 Mar 2008]
