Tag: communications
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NSA Boasts Cyberwarfare Capabilities
Security agencies in America are notoriously embroiled in computer based methods of espionage, and outright warfare on the odd occasion. Now, hot off the presses from Edward Snowden’s leaked NSA secrets comes a good round of boasting from the NSA themselves, as the agency appears to be bragging about their formidable cyber warfare abilities against…
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British Government Rejects BlackBerry 10 Mobile Operating System as Unsafe
BlackBerry appeals to the Communications Electronics Security Group as British leaders say BB10 is a risk to sensitive data..
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Only in Japan! – Far East Has Tech Licked with Tongue Sensing Interface for Kinect
When it comes to tech it’s no secret that the Japanese give the rest of the world a good licking, but now they’ve really taken that idea too far with research currently on-going to develop of a tongue motion-capture interface for the Microsoft Kinect! A team at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan is…
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Ofcom Delays Decision to Allow Everything Everywhere Early Access to 4G Testing
After opposition from UK networks including Vodafone, O2 and Three, Ofcom has held back on its decision to allow Orange and T-Mobile parent company Everything Everywhere early access and testing of the 4G mobile data network. Back in February, Everything Everywhere proudly announced it would get first dibs on the lucrative 1800MHz 4G spectrum and…
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Apple & European Telecoms to Bring in Nano SIM as New Mobile Standard
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What’s smaller than a micro SIM? Try a Nano Sim. That’s what the European Telecommunications Standard Institute, a collective of telecom operators, is looking to introduce following a vote next week. No surprises who’s on the board. Yep, it’s Apple – the company that introduced the world to the previously downsized Micro SIM which threw…
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Apple & European Telecoms to Bring in Nano SIM as New Mobile Standard
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What’s smaller than a micro SIM? Try a Nano Sim. That’s what the European Telecommunications Standard Institute, a collective of telecom operators, is looking to introduce following a vote next week. No surprises who’s on the board. Yep, it’s Apple – the company that introduced the world to the previously downsized Micro SIM which threw…
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Sony Mobile Sticking with Dual-Core – Cortex A15 for Xperia Range Will “Outperform Quad-core”
After an impressive outing at the Mobile World Congress, newly singular entity Sony Mobile Communications has spoken about its future intentions regarding quad-core processing for its smartphone devices – or lack thereof, for the time being. Recently parted with Ericsson, Sony announced a new range of smartphone and wowed us with its first solo release…
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HTC Hoping To Be The “One” for Google’s New Nexus Smartphone?
Reports suggest that HTC is making a bid to reconnect with one-time partner Google on the next Nexus smartphone and a follow-up to last year’s impressive Samsung-made Galaxy Nexus which brought with it Google’s newest Android OS upgrade version 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The Nexus brand has become quite the platform to launch from and…
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Google’s Mystery “Entertainment Device” Will Bring Streaming Music Hardware to the Home
Last week it was reported that Google had approached the Federal Communications Commission to seek approval for testing on a mystery “entertainment device” and just a day after making the somewhat obvious prediction that Apple will launch its next iPad at a March press event respected news source The Wall Street Journal believes it’s sussed out…
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BT begins first UK 4G trials in the South West of England
Idyllic Cornwall is the setting for BT’s opening live trials for 4G LTE mobile standards ahead of the auction which will kick start after a little delay in 2012. British Telecom has teamed up with Everything Everywhere, the collective name of T-Mobile and Orange UK networks to test the next generation communications in St. Newlin…
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Motorola flirts with Microsoft at comms conference – Sights set on WP7?
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It seems Motorola has been making eyes at Microsoft at the Oppenheimer Technology & Communication Conference in Boston, Massachusetts – the company’s CEO making it clear they would happily court the Redmond co. to hook up on a Window Phone 7 deal. “I think we’re completely open to the notion of Windows as a platform”…
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Only in Japan! Self-love for the lonely with “Sense-Roid”
Lonely folk in Japan can now engage themselves in a little self-love – but before you get the wrong idea, this isn’t what you think. In fact, it’s probably a little more embarrassing than what you were thinking of.. Kajimoto Laboratory are a company working on human interface research and following up from their “kiss…