Technology Category

The Elusive Capacity of Networks
May 16th 2012 - 08:31 GMT
Calculating the total capacity of a data network is a notoriously difficult problem, but information theorists are beginning to make some headway....more

EU Research Breakthrough Will Cut LTE Mobile Network Energy Use in Half
May 15th 2012 - 16:44 GMT
The EU-funded project EARTH has received the 2012 "Future Internet Award" prize for developing energy efficiency solutions for wireless communication networks....more

Cassidian and Alcatel-Lucent Bring LTE to Professional Mobile Radio Services
May 15th 2012 - 13:52 GMT
Cassidian, an EADS company, and Alcatel-Lucent have announced plans to develop an LTE based system for Private Mobile Radio users with the launch of a new solution called 'Evercor'. ...more

NEC Develops Technology to Reduce Femtocell Interference
May 15th 2012 - 11:13 GMT
Japan's NEC announced today the development of technologies for high speed, indoor mobile communications using LTE femtocell base stations that minimize radio signal interference between base stations by controlling the transmission power of radio signals....more

Floating Robots Use GPS-enabled Smartphones to Track Water Flow
May 14th 2012 - 16:02 GMT
The smartphone-equipped floating robots demonstrated the next generation of water monitoring technology, promising to transform the way government agencies monitor one of the state's most precious resources....more

Huawei Conducts World's First Commercial Network LTE Category 4 Trial
May 9th 2012 - 17:12 GMT
Huawei says that it has carried out the first successful execution of an LTE Category 4 field trial on a commercial LTE network in Europe. ...more

Qualcomm to Add Support for Clearwire's LTE Network to Its Chipsets
May 8th 2012 - 14:22 GMT
Qualcomm has announced that it will add support for Clearwire's upcoming LTE TDD network to its line of multi-mode LTE chipsets with the inclusion of support for 3GPP's Band 41 (B41) radio frequency....more

Qualcomm Announces Roadmap and Resources Supporting M2M Services
May 8th 2012 - 13:44 GMT
Qualcomm has announced that vendors have released more than 100 cellular and connectivity solutions for the emerging Internet of Everything (IoE)/M2M ecosystem based on its chipsets....more

Kineto, Taqua Enable Mobile Operators to Include Wi-Fi in VoLTE Deployment Plans
May 8th 2012 - 12:06 GMT
Kineto Wireles and Taqua have announced a joint solution that enables mobile operators to include Wi-Fi as part of their Voice over LTE (VoLTE) deployment strategy....more

Ericsson Pushes NFC Market Forwards with Development Kit of Testing Applications
May 8th 2012 - 11:55 GMT
With the development kit, selected partners can remotely deploy, update and delete applications, while maintaining the same security level as in a real-life implementation through a standards-based TSM platform. ...more

Giesecke and Devrient Unveils the First MicroSD Card with Automatic File Encryption
May 8th 2012 - 11:46 GMT
Giesecke & Devrient says that it has launched the first secure microSD card to feature a "data safe" embedded in the card to protect confidential data. This card automatically encrypts all content that is stored in the microSD card's flash memory....more

ZTE to Open a Network Operations Centre in Hungary
May 8th 2012 - 08:43 GMT
The new NOC will provide a range of management services including a customer service centre, a network monitoring centre, a fault handing centre, a network performance optimisation centre, a spare parts management and repair centre....more

Nokia Siemens Networks Improves Radio Spectrum Refarming for GSM to 3G Networks
May 7th 2012 - 15:21 GMT
Nokia Siemens Networks says that it has introduced two innovations that allow operators to deliver mobile broadband more effectively with their existing radio spectrum....more

Sequans and Clearwire to Collaborate on TDD-LTE Ecosystem Development
May 7th 2012 - 14:23 GMT
Chipmaker Sequans Communications and USA based WiMAX-to-LTE network, Clearwire have announced an agreement to collaborate on accelerating the availability of LTE devices for Clearwire's planned TDD-LTE network...more

Revolutionary Technology Enables Objects to Know How They are Being Touched
May 4th 2012 - 08:25 GMT
A smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger to her lips and a chair that adjusts room lighting based on recognizing if a user is reclining or leaning forward are among the many possible applications of a new sensing technique,...more

Thanks for the Memory: More Room for Data in 'phase-change' Material
May 4th 2012 - 08:12 GMT
A team led by Johns Hopkins engineers has discovered some previously unknown properties of a common memory material, paving the way for development of new forms of memory drives and computer systems that retain data more quickly, last longer and allow far more capacity than current data storage media....more

At Smallest Scale, Liquid Crystal Behavior Portends New Materials
May 2nd 2012 - 18:41 GMT
Liquid crystals, the state of matter that makes possible the flat screen technology now commonly used in televisions and computers, may have some new technological tricks in store....more

New CDMA Base Station from Nokia Siemens Networks
May 2nd 2012 - 13:36 GMT
Nokia Siemens Networks says that it is launching a new CDMA base station based on its Flexi Multiradio platform....more

Nokia Signs MoU with Nigerian Government
May 1st 2012 - 15:00 GMT
Nigeria's Ministry of Communication Technology has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Nokia aimed at stimulating the growth of the ICT sector in the country....more

DragonWave Strengthens Horizon Portfolio With Expanded Frequency Coverage
May 1st 2012 - 14:35 GMT
Backhaul vendor, DragonWave says that it has expanded its portfolio to add the Horizon S-Series, a sub-6 GHz radio suited for non-line-of-sight applications ...more

IHS Switches On Africa's Largest Solar-powered Cell Site
April 30th 2012 - 17:43 GMT
Tower networks operator, IHS Africa has set up what it says is the largest solar-powered cell site in Africa for mobile operators....more

Huawei and Intel Collaborate on LTE TDD
April 27th 2012 - 10:25 GMT
Intel and Huawei have jointly announced a collaboration to advance the development of interoperability testing and deployment of LTE TDD solutions....more

Samsung Announces Quad-Core Processor for Next Galaxy Smartphone
April 26th 2012 - 10:26 GMT
Samsung Electronics has shown off a quad-core application processor built on the High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power process technology. The processor is based on the ARM Cortex platform and operates at 1.4Ghz....more

Renesas Mobile Tests System for Doubling GSM Voice Capacity
April 26th 2012 - 09:52 GMT
Renesas Mobile has undertaken what it says is the world's first pre-commercial trial of the latest version of Voice Services over Adaptive Multi-user Orthogonal Sub-channel (VAMOS II), the next step in the evolution of GSM technology....more

Trails of White-Space TV Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Services Successful
April 25th 2012 - 09:54 GMT
Trials of white-space radio spectrum in the UK over the past 10 months have been successful, the testing consortium has announced....more

Pulse Electronics Introduces Programmable LTE Antenna for Ultra Thin Laptops
April 24th 2012 - 15:57 GMT
Pulse Electronics says that it has launched a programmable antenna that enables LTE connectivity on laptop computers. The antenna can switch frequencies to accommodate both low and high operating bands. ...more

Orange to Offer Anti-Fraud Services to Other Telcos
April 23rd 2012 - 16:32 GMT
France Telecom-Orange has moved into the anti-fraud market and will start to offer its own revenue leakage protection services to other telecom network operators....more

Stable Electrodes for Improving Printed Electronics
April 20th 2012 - 07:59 GMT
The process, which allows manufacturers to literally print or roll materials onto surfaces to produce an electronically functional device, is already used in organic solar cells and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that form the displays of cellphones....more

Nokia Siemens Networks Adds Support for 1900Mhz Spectrum in LTE Portfolio
April 19th 2012 - 10:04 GMT
Nokia Siemens Networks says that it is extending its TD-LTE technology to support the 1.9GHz frequency bands....more

New Research Could Mean Cellphones That Can See Through Walls
April 18th 2012 - 17:37 GMT
Comic book hero superpowers may be one step closer to reality after the latest technological feats made by researchers at UT Dallas. They have designed an imager chip that could turn mobile phones into devices that can see through walls, wood, plastics, paper and other objects....more

NEC and Wyless Agree to Cross-Promote M2M Services
April 18th 2012 - 09:16 GMT
NEC and Wyless have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form a strategic alliance to explore end-to-end M2M service opportunities....more

Pctel Granted Patent for Vandal Proof Antenna Lock
April 13th 2012 - 10:17 GMT
USA based antenna vendor, Pctel says that it has been granted a patent for a method that will protect antenna installations from vandalism. ...more

Improved Batteries with Sulfur-carbon Nanoparticles
April 10th 2012 - 17:15 GMT
As the potential for the further improvement of lithium-ion batteries is nearly exhausted, experts are now turning to a new and promising power storage device: lithium-sulfur batteries. ...more

Quantum Computer Built Inside a Diamond
April 5th 2012 - 08:36 GMT
Computer breaks new ground by incorporating a method of protecting against the noise that fouls up quantum systems...more

NEC Develops One of the World's Smallest Antennas
April 2nd 2012 - 11:08 GMT
NEC announced today the development of one of the world's smallest antennas that can be installed in short-range wireless modules embedded in sensors and other devices for building Machine-to-Machine (M2M) networks....more

ETSI Delays Nano-SIM Decision to Settle Industry Dispute
April 1st 2012 - 16:00 GMT
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute has announced that it is delaying the vote on proposals for a new so-called Nano-SIM card specification....more

Honeycombs of Magnets Could Lead to New Type of Computer Processing
March 30th 2012 - 17:48 GMT
Scientists have taken an important step forward in developing a new material using nano-sized magnets that could ultimately lead to new types of electronic devices, with greater capacity than is currently feasible, in a study published today in the journal Science. ...more

ZTE Conducts Record-Breaking HSUPA Single Cell Data Rate Test
March 30th 2012 - 08:41 GMT
China's ZTE says that it has carried out what it says is a record-breaking single-cell HSUPA data rate improvement test in Shenzhen, China....more

First the Smart Phone, Now the Smart Home
March 30th 2012 - 08:20 GMT
We have all heard of the smartphone and any day now, most of us will have one. Not far behind: the smart home....more

Tecore Networks Announces Low Cost LTE Network Start-Up Kit
March 29th 2012 - 12:16 GMT
Tecore Networks announced today the availability of a scalable LTE network 'starter kit' that includes the iCore LTE Core Network targeting operators with an initial deployment of up to ten thousand subscribers....more