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Implantable Medical Devices May Expose Patients To Security, Privacy Risks
March 12, 2008 Implantable cardiac defibrillators that are equipped with wireless technology are vulnerable to having private medical information extracted -- and even having the devices reprogrammed -- without the ... > full story -
High-Speed WLAN Network Tested
March 12, 2008 With the aid of multiple antenna technology, researchers have succeeded in quadrupling the existing transmission rate of conventional networks from 54 megabytes per second (Mbps) to 216 Mbps. ... > full story -
Wireless Networks That Build Themselves
March 11, 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 4, 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 8, 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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Web 3.0: User-Generated Networks?
January 21, 2008 European researchers took the concepts of Web 2.0, like user-generated content and social networking, into the real world. They hope to create user-generated physical networks so internets could be ... > full story -
What Are The Health Effects Of Wireless Communication Devices?
January 17, 2008 The rapid increase in the use of wireless communication devices in recent years has been accompanied by a significant amount of research into potential health effects from high exposure to ... > full story -
Ambient Intelligence: Snowboarding To The New Frontier
January 12, 2008 Think how many lives could be saved if emergency services were alerted the moment a pedestrian is run over. Think how much more fun snowboarding could be if you could emote your feelings ... > full story -
New Technology Protects Internet Advertisers From Click Fraud
January 7, 2008 New technology that protects Internet advertisers from "click fraud" -- falsely driving up hits to ads on Web pages. The extra clicks drive up costs for pay-per-click ... > full story -
What A Wireless World Could Mean For The Average Person
December 21, 2007 The Wireless World Initiative has developed prototype user-centered systems that will potentially enable millions of people to make the most of third-generation (3G) and beyond mobile technology to ... > full story
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