
New Wireless Technology Responds To Emergencies Where GPS Doesn't Work
CSIRO is developing new
wireless technologies for
locating, tracking, sensing
and communicating in areas
where global positioning
... > full story

Futuristic Linkage Of Animals And Electronics
The same Global Positioning
System (GPS) technology used
to track vehicles is now
being used to track cows.
But animal scientists have
taken tracking several steps
... > full story

Emergency Links: 'Sweet Spot' For Radios In Tunnels Identified
Researchers have confirmed
that underground tunnels --
generally a difficult
setting for radios -- can
have a frequency "sweet
... > full story

High-speed WLAN Network Tested
With the aid of multiple
antenna technology,
researchers have succeeded
in quadrupling the existing
transmission rate of
conventional networks from
54 megabytes per second
... > full story
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Monitoring Against Another Pompeii
August 8, 2008 A WiMAX-based connection to the Internet will enable real-time monitoring of potentially dangerous active volcanoes. For effective monitoring of volcanic activity, scientists want to know what is ... > full story -
Spotting Tomorrow’s Forest Fires
August 4, 2008 A WiMAX-based connection to the internet enables fire-monitoring efforts in remote and mountainous regions. A forest fire remote monitoring system has been successfully tested in Portugal that could ... > full story -
Relays Pass Baton To Next-gen Broadband Networks
August 2, 2008 The ideal of affordable wireless broadband for all, and as an added bonus better quality services in urban areas, is a lot closer thanks to recent advances made by European ... > full story -
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Wii-habilitation: Using Video Games To Heal Burns
July 21, 2008 Video games — often regarded as nothing more than mindless entertainment for lethargic kids and teens — are proving to be an effective, new tool to motivate patients to perform ... > full story -
Experimental Phone Network Uses Virtual Sticky Notes
June 21, 2008 The rapid convergence of social networks, mobile phones and global positioning technology has given engineers the ability to create something they call "virtual sticky notes," site-specific messages ... > full story -
Turning Conventional Video Coding Wisdom On Its Head
May 22, 2008 A major drawback of the latest generation video products and applications has been the complex requirements for coding and decoding signals. An alternative put forward by European researchers turns ... > full story -
Location Spoofing Possible With WiFi Devices: Positioning System Used By IPhone/iPod Breached
April 16, 2008 Apple iPhone and iPod (touch) support a new self-localization feature that uses known locations of wireless access points as well as the device's own ability to detect access points. Now researchers ... > full story -
Wireless Networks That Build Themselves
March 14, 2008 From traffic lights to mobile phones, small computers are all around us. Enabling these 'embedded systems' to create wireless communications networks automatically will have profound effects in areas ... > full story -
Digital Home: An All-in-one Device To Control Most Everything
March 6, 2008 Thick instruction manuals, a confusing tangle of cables and endless different standards -- trying to connect your flat screen, DVD recorder, MP3 player, surround system and computer to one another ... > full story -
New Method For Taxi, Delivery Dispatch Reduces Wait Times
February 10, 2008 Human-computer interaction has not improved enormously since Mark Twain's time, when the typewriter was invented. A European research task force hopes to change that by making human-computer ... > full story
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