radio

DAB to carry TV to mobiles

News The digital radio standard DAB has been revised, allowing it to be used for the transmission of mobile TV via Internet protocol (IP). The managing director of BT Movio, Emma Lloyd, said on Tuesday that DAB-IP's approval supported BT's view that "we...

12 July 2006, 9:25

Exiled journalists beat censors with texts

News A radio station hounded out of the country by Zimbabwean strongman President Robert Mugabwe has found its emails are monitored and shortwave broadcasts are blocked by Chinese-built jamming devices, the station manager said at a press freedom...

19 February 2007, 9:29

File-swapping TV's reception becomes clearer

News Clarke's KQED is at the leading edge of the mix of TV programmers trying to reach people online -- a process that's just beginning to do for video what blogs have done for print media, and podcasting has done for radio.

9 August 2005, 9:34

HP's Memory Spot crams data onto sticker

News To get widespread adoption of such radio-based sensors, the sensors themselves are going to have to get cheaper, more intelligent or both, advocates say. Memory Spot, a technology devised by the research division of HP, is a self-contained storage...

17 July 2006, 10:19

Hopes for legal music podcasts on the rise

News We see it as the hottest thing going in radio, hotter than anything else in radio," Apple CEO Steve Jobs told an audience of Macintosh developers last week. But like other music DJs producing podcasts -- radio-like shows that can be downloaded from...

17 June 2005, 10:05

Sony: Who cares about rootkits?

News Thomas Hesse, the president of SonyBMG's global digital business division, said in a radio interview last week that its use of rootkits is not an issue to the everyday user. he said in the interview with radio company NPR.

10 November 2005, 9:15

Virgin Mobile wants another £25m from NTL

News Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson said in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he is sure Virgin Mobile and NTL will be able to reach a compromise on the acquisition. Branson told Radio 4 he expected NTL to be willing to pay extra for...

12 December 2005, 9:14

News.blog: Italian 3G iPhone confirmed

News Manners is one of the world's most venerable tech journalists -- he interviewed Marconi after the famous radio-assisted Titanic rescue, asking when the ship's radio cat's whisker detectors were going to move from the 3-inch to the 1.5-inch...

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9 May 2008, 10:15

Fujitsu Siemens touts its 3G laptops

News Speaking at the CeBIT trade show on Wednesday, Fujitsu Siemens' chief executive Bernd Bischoff explained how 30 per cent of all Fujitsu Siemens laptops now have a 3G radio built in. Typically, such a model would cost the user $80 (£41) more than a...

16 March 2007, 9:56

Talk to your car with new tech

News There's fairly significant demand for 'button-intensive' features in the car like dual climate zones and satellite radio," the US equivalent of DAB that has more than 120 channels, said Jim Pisz, national manager for partnerships at Toyota.

24 January 2006, 10:31

Cricket could turn IT networks to ashes

News Network management company Network General warned businesses across Britain this week that the final match of the Ashes series could overburden their networks as large numbers of staff log onto online radio sites.

9 September 2005, 10:45

New chipset promises gigabit broadband on cable and wireless

News The US company said that it has received first test silicon for the design, with production scheduled for mid-2005, and that it is intended to cope with any radio standard currently in use. Unusually, the design is completely reprogrammable and is...

11 May 2004, 14:20

iPod to transmit to radios?

News Apple's patent application (No.which the US Patent and Trademark Office made public recently, describes "a method, apparatus and system" that wirelessly plays iPod audio files over an FM radio receiver, such as a car radio.

11 January 2006, 9:33

Solar flares could disrupt power and satellites

News Intense radio emissions were associated with the flare. It rated an R-4, or severe, on the NOAA's space weather scale for radio blackouts. The sun unleashed one of the largest solar flares on record on Wednesday, and further activity could disrupt...

9 September 2005, 8:43

Intel expands its Wi-Fi chip technology

News The all-CMOS direct conversion dual-band radio transceiver moves Intel closer toward its goal of offering one chip that can handle multiple radios in a single device. Devices today use a customised radio to connect to a specific network, such as a...

20 June 2005, 8:38