This is the world I grew up in as a young engineer, where interference, multi-path, scatter and signal-to-noise ratio dominated all design and operational considerations. They talk to each other to minimise the energy used and problems associated...
Standing 20 metres from the building of a "well-known bank", the researchers detected a very strong signal emanating from a wi-fi point within the building. And a separate survey by antivirus company Kaspersky Labs tested wi-fi networks in and...
He mentions fruit machines, the ubiquitous one-armed bandits, because he envisages these being one of the biggest obstacles to quality wi-fi we will encounter today - eating up radio frequency quicker than they eat up the punters' coins.
The restrictions exist to prevent China (among others) from using the machinery for chips for advanced weapons. Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research, said: "They will have this older process technology over there but it is much...
You wear a concealed Bluetooth dongle linked to all your devices and sensitised to distance by signal ranging. Tell us what you think of the IT workforce in silicon.com's 2007 Skills Survey. Written in Dublin after a long working day and dispatched...
It is as if the young have adopted the mantra, 'if it ain't on the web it doesn't exist'. Tell us what you think of the IT workforce in silicon.com's 2007 Skills Survey. Written in Austin, Texas during a short stopover and dispatched to silicon.com...