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Qualcomm Atheros flaunts 802.11ac WiFi module for Snapdragon S4
By admin at 23 February, 2012, 1:20 am
The 802.11ac WiFi standard is an alphabetical step backwards, but for high-bandwidth tasks like 1080p streaming it’s claimed to wipe the face off 802.11n. Qualcomm Atheros wants its share of the billion unit pie and has just launched a series of products to flesh out its 802.11ac ecosystem. Top billing goes to the WCN3680 WiFi/BlueTooth/FM [...]
Read More >>Harris new rugged tablet brings Honeycomb to your local combat-zone
By admin at 23 February, 2012, 1:20 am
Harris makes the tough tech you’d expect to see census takers (leave it), NFL stadiums and public buses toting around. It’s introducing a new 7-inch Android tablet that’s so hard-as-nails it would make a Galaxy Tab go home and call its mother. The Harris RF-3590 packs a 1024 x 600 multitouch display, a dual-core 1.5GHz [...]
Read More >>Secret UK Network Hunts GPS Jammers
By admin at 23 February, 2012, 12:20 am
garymortimer writes “A secret network of 20 roadside listening stations across the UK has confirmed that criminals are attempting to jam GPS signals on a regular basis. From the article: ‘Government-funded trials involving the police have revealed more than a hundred incidents of GPS jammer use in the UK. The Sentinel project, which has been [...]
Read More >>Apache outs version 2.4 of its HTTP server six years after last full release
By admin at 23 February, 2012, 12:00 am
It’s been half a dozen years since Apache last released a new version of its venerable HTTP server, but the day has finally come for version 2.4 to be unveiled to the world. Granted, the old Apache was doing fine — it’s been the most prolific web server in the world since the mid nineties [...]
Read More >>T-Mobile lost more customers in Q4, will launch LTE in 2013 with AWS spectrum from AT&T
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 11:40 pm
In T-Mobile USA’s first earnings report since the proposed merger with AT&T fell through in December, it noted a loss of 802,000 customers in Q4 (being the only carrier not to have the iPhone is a lonely, lonely circumstance). But there is some good news — thanks to the AWS spectrum it’s receiving due to [...]
Read More >>T-Mobile lost more customers in Q4, will launch LTE in 2013 with spectrum from AT&T
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 11:20 pm
In T-Mobile USA’s first earnings report since the proposed merger with AT&T fell through in December, it noted a loss of 802,000 customers in Q4, but there is some good news. Thanks to the AWS spectrum it’s receiving due to the termination of said deal, it plans to launch LTE services in 2013. Check out [...]
Read More >>Gates Foundation Makes Progress On Reinvented Toilets
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 10:40 pm
Julie188 writes “Last summer the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged to spend millions to reinvent the toilet. That investment has born fruit with teams from around the world coming up with many different ways to turn human waste into energy.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. Go to Source
Read More >>Samsung’s Galaxy S II celebrates 20 million sold, just in time for MWC
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 10:20 pm
After crossing the 10 million units moved threshold back in September, Samsung has joyously announced ahead of MWC 2012 that its Galaxy S II family of phones has sold 20 million since launching in April. According to Samsung, taking just ten months to hit the mark puts it ahead of the original Galaxy S (hovering [...]
Read More >>NVIDIA officially brands Tegra 3′s five-core quad-core architecture as 4-PLUS-1
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 10:00 pm
NVIDIA’s cooked up a few ways to describe the Tegra 3′s quad-core-with-a-spare architecture, usually by giving the extra Cortex A9 a cute nickname like “ninja,” or “companion.” Until now, the proper description was “Variable Symmetrical Multiprocessing,” or, vSMP for short. Despite how much fun (and technically accurate) some of these descriptions may have been, however, [...]
Read More >>Almost a Million UK Homes Will Suffer 4G TV interference
By admin at 22 February, 2012, 9:40 pm
First time accepted submitter Nick Fel writes “As the UK nears the end of a lengthy digital TV switch-over, the sale of the analogue TV spectrum for 4G mobile phones will disrupt digital TV in almost a million homes. Affected homes will be issued with a filter or required to upgrade to satellite or cable, [...]
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