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Articles tagged with: Nasa
In space, everyone can hear you tweet
On Twitter, messages of 140 characters may seem confining. Mike Massimino is finding a different type of space even more limiting - outer space. more
Nothing kills innovation like having to reinvent the wheel. Imagine how dull your diet would be if you had to build a new stove and hammer out a few cooking pots every time you wanted to test a new recipe. Until just a couple of years ago, electronics researchers testing new high-speed wireless technologies faced just this sort of problem; they had to build every test system completely from scratch. more
Related Tags: nokia, motorola, rural, ericsson, testing
If changing the batteries in the remote control or smoke detector seems like a chore, imagine having to change hundreds of batteries in sensors scattered across a busy bridge. more
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Wireless Power System Transmits Energy Over 148km
A test of a wireless broadcast of solar power has been carried out which was able to transmit energy RF energy over a distance of up to 148 kilometers (about 90 miles) - almost 100-times further than a major 1970s power transmission performed by nasa in the Mojave Desert in California. more
Related Tags: base-station, solar-power, rural, texas, microwave, base-stations, backhaul, USA
Auction of Intangibles Attracts NASA, Private Investors
CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- Bidders will gather in Chicago next month for a high-end live auction at the historic Chicago Cultural Center, but they won't be vying for Roy Lichtenstein lithographs or a seventeenth-century writing desk. more
Related Tags: 3com, microsoft, intel, gps, ran, patents, seven, chicago, operating-system, charity, etf, linux, USA
SMS's More Expensive than Messaging the Hubble Space Telescope
A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr Nigel Bannister's calculations were used for the UK's Channel 4 Dispatches programme "The Mobile Phone Rip-Off". more
Related Tags: text-messaging, text-messages, text-message, UK
Apple Working With Salesforce on iPhone Applications
SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Apple's iPhone cellphone appears to be gaining more interest from businesses, which could end up being a blow to Palm and Research in Motion. more
Related Tags: cisco, gartner, palm, blackberry, ben
Phone Cos Eye Largest US Government Telecom Contract Ever
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Four major telephone companies are eagerly eyeing a long-term government contract worth as much as US$48 billion, making it the largest telecom contract ever. more
Related Tags: at&t, qwest, sprint-nextel, level-3, gsa, qwest-communications
Building a Better Battery - With Plastic
Brown University engineers have created a new battery that uses plastic, not metal, to conduct electrical current. The hybrid device marries the power of a capacitor with the storage capacity of a battery. A description of the prototype is published in Advanced Materials.
 Tayhas Palmore, associate professor of engineering, left, and Hyun-Kon Song, a former postdoctoral research associate, figured out how to combine the advantages of batteries and capacitors in a plastic hybrid device. |
India's Space Agency:Boeing Ends Satellite Collaboration
BANGALORE, India (AP)--India's space agency said Friday that a subsidiary of Boeing Co. (BA) has canceled an agreement to help produce communication satellites. more
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