signal

Cracking open the Atari 2600

News The silver box in the right corner houses the circuitry that creates our standard video/audio RF signal. The output from the Atari 2600 is your basic radio frequency signal carried along a wire via RCA connections.

Tags: credit, ports, output, channel

23 May 2008, 11:04

Council flats get broadband via power line

News A base station located five miles away in Yardley will send the broadband signal to the rooftop receiver, which will then send the connectivity through electricity cabling to each flat. Residents of council flats in the West Midlands town of...

Tags: connectivity, project, broadband, buildings

22 May 2008, 8:55

News.blog: iPhone SDK downloads hit 100,000

News Apple included quotes from a number of third-party developers that give a pretty clear signal of what types of applications are already in development. Despite some early problems managing the flood of developers seeking access to the iPhone...

Tags: apple, developers, problems, event

13 March 2008, 9:06

News.blog: Kodak boosts mobile megapixels

News More intense light means more electrons, and that electronic signal can be converted into digital data. A basic problem with image sensors is the challenge of distinguishing the light's signal -- the actual photons striking the sensor -- from...

Tags: megapixel, detect, pixel, mobile phones

5 February 2008, 9:11

Photos: Busting up a PlayStation

News According to a forum post on nfggames.com, the Sony CXM4015R chip converts the raw video signal from the CPU/GPU into RGB video. As part of the signal processing, the chip handles the MacroVision (copy protection) mixing and Sync-On-Green...

Tags: ports, post, chip, cable

1 February 2008, 9:53

Photos: Inside the iPod touch

News Could this signal the death of our touch? In case you hadn't noticed, the Apple iPod touch is one of the company's latest portable multimedia devices. The iPod touch includes the usual music-playing features, but adds video playback and Wi-Fi...

Tags: fi, battery, wi fi, clip

4 December 2007, 11:15

European GPS project is 'folly', says MP

News This makes the signal much more reliable, he said. A committee of MPs has called for a full review of the UK's involvement in the European Galileo satellite-network project. In a statement released on Monday, Gwyneth Dunwoody, MP for Crewe and

Tags: gps, community, navigation, european

13 November 2007, 8:53

News.blog: 100 times faster than Wi-Fi?

News IBM brings the radio expertise to the project while MediaTek will work on the digital signal processing. Radio scientists at IBM Research and MediaTek are teaming up to develop a wireless transmission protocol that will deliver files more than 100...

Tags: fi, project, wi fi, wireless

22 October 2007, 9:15

New 'bonkers' tech tax changes

News It's a really odd signal for the government to send out. Technology professionals have reacted angrily to tax changes announced this week by chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling. The changes, announced on Tuesday, will penalise people who...

15 October 2007, 9:48

Ofcom officially okays ultra-wideband

News UWB connects devices at up to 2Gbps and with a theoretical range of about 30m by spreading an extremely low-power signal across a very wide range of frequencies. Home-communications devices using ultra-wideband wireless technology can be used...

Tags: range, devices, commission, frequencies

13 August 2007, 9:15

Smarter routers mean better online video

News The FR-1000 Flow Routers also will allow service providers to offer a sort of busy signal for video and voice so that people could be alerted if the network were too swamped. Today packet networks don't know how to give a busy signal the way the...

7 August 2007, 10:04

Three-year study finds phone masts 'safe'

News Using a group of "sensitive" individuals (44 people) and a control group (114 people), the study found that, in double-blind conditions (where neither the testers nor the tested knew whether the signal was on or off), the sensitive group reported...

Tags: study, base, mobile phone, health

26 July 2007, 10:24

EC suggests using TV spectrum for WiMax

News UHF spectrum should be allocated to WiMax once Europe's analogue television signals are phased out, the European commissioner for information society and media has proposed. Viviane Reding made the suggestion during a broadband-related speech in...

14 June 2007, 9:09

Wozniak fires up crowd at Maker Faire

News But he said he grew impatient with waiting for the signal to go, and so he decided to act on his own. If there's one person who perfectly personifies Maker Faire, it could well be Steve Wozniak. That's why a standing-room only crowd had gathered to...

21 May 2007, 9:32

Media gurus threatened by user content

News User-generated content is one of the media and entertainment industry's biggest threats according to a survey -- a signal that some established businesses are struggling to cope with some of the Web 2.0 trends.

18 April 2007, 9:36