The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has begun a test run of a Google database of unused spectrum in the television bands that's available for wireless broadband. The FCC on Monday kicked off a 45-day trial of Google's so-called ...
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Fujitsu promises that its Lifebook E Line laptops will use all the same standard components, including the main board, drives for the modular expansion bay and AC adaptors, despite coming in screen sizes from 13.3 inches to 15.6 inches. ...
Zotac on Tuesday unveiled its new StreamBox and RAIDbox accessories at the CeBit trade show in Hanover, Germany. The new products are designed to ease the process of sharing digital, audio and video files, Zotac said. The StreamBox acts ...
Last week the content-creating industry launched a new effort aimed at preventing copyright infringement: the Copyright Alert System—CAS, also called "six strikes." It's a warning system intended to curb illegal downloads of music, ...
Dubai-based GEMS Education on Monday announced a collaboration with Aruba Networks, which will install a wireless network solution across all GEMS schools for a BYOD initiative. GEMS claimed that this move will make it the first education ...
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So-called patent trolls force technology companies to spend money on lawyers instead of innovation, and Congress needs to discourage infringement lawsuits from patent-collecting companies, a group of tech and business representatives said. ...
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Sony Mobile will provide an experimental version of the Firefox OS on one of its smartphones so that advanced developers can try it out and start working on applications. Earlier this week, Sony said it is evaluating the Firefox OS ...
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While they may lack the pure wow factor engendered by a gigantic 84-inch screen, smaller higher-resolution Ultra HD TVs are on the way from Sony, slated to arrive this April or May. Exact pricing hasn't yet been announced, though they're ...
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Fujitsu promises that although the new business laptops in its Lifebook E Line come in screen sizes from 13.3 inches to 15.6 inches, all will use the same standard components, including the main board, drives for the modular expansion bay, ...
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Cisco Systems' acquisition of network optimization vendor Intucell closed just three days before the start of this week's Mobile World Congress, great timing for a deal that is likely to play a big role in Cisco's mobile future. Intucell ...
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Dell today announced the availability of the Dell Wireless Dock, the industry's first docking station based on the multi-gigabit Tri-Band Wi-Fi standard (WiGig).The new wireless docking station is currently compatible with Dell's Latitude ...
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Smartphones, it seems, can do anything. Today's phones pack so much power and so many sensors into such a small space -- and at a relatively low cost -- that they are increasingly being used for inventive purposes. Just this week Strand ...
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A few years ago, GoPro reinvented the sports camcorder market with its line of small, compact models. Today, GoPro sports cams are now selling so well that 2012 market-share data placed GoPro as second only to Sony in terms of all total ...
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Hewlett-Packard is reentering the consumer tablet market with the Slate 7, an Android-based device with a 7-inch screen that will start at US$169. The Slate 7 runs Android 4.1, also known as Jellybean, and has a dual-core processor based ...
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In Star Wars terms, the small cells that mobile carriers and vendors will be talking up this week at Mobile World Congress are more like the odd-couple androids R2-D2 and C-3PO than like their foes, the Empire's phalanxes of identical storm ...
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