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iTrip to be legal in time for Christmas

News The communications regulator Ofcom announced on Thursday that after a successful ten-week consultation it is giving the stamp of approval to the small FM transmitters that connect to the iPod and broadcasts a signal that can heard on a car radio...

9 October 2006, 9:51

Could this be the end of gadget chargers?

News Marin Soljacic, assistant professor of physics at MIT, told CNET.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com, the device would work in a similar way to Wi-Fi, with a plug-in device in the home or office providing a signal to recharge all types of gadgets.

20 November 2006, 9:37

Start-up boosts citywide Wi-Fi hopes

News Cloud, Florida are resulting in contractors being required to deploy more access points than had been originally planned and subscribers being forced to attach signal boosters to their homes to get Internet access inside.

23 May 2006, 10:09

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, 12:24

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

Let the new sound era commence

News To prevent signal interference or noise, ECMs have to be insulated from wires and components. An integrated A-to-D converter then turns the captured vibrations into a digital signal. The AKU2000 takes up less space than traditional microphones...

28 February 2006, 8:53

GPS tech trialled on Swindon buses

News A late-running bus will have a higher priority status and the on-board transmitter will communicate this information directly to the traffic light or the central traffic signal control centre. This means the sequence of the lights can be managed to...

23 January 2007, 9:56

IBM sees the light in carbon nanotubes

News What IBM has purportedly turned on its ear is the central process of converting an electronic signal to an optical signal -- which is converting an electron to a photon. IBM Research said this week that it has discovered a minuscule light source...

21 November 2005, 9:10

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, 12:04

Yahoo software turns your PC into DVR

News While the software works with any TV signal, Yahoo recommends a 1.5mbps broadband connection for best results. One system will not interfere with the other, as long as they each have access to the TV signal.

27 April 2006, 11:51

Pilots speak out about mobiles on planes

News He said newer phones with a flight mode, which stop searching when out of range, tend to stop hunting for a signal around 5,000ft, though older phones can continue throughout a flight. But on-board pico cells, which phones will connect to...

3 August 2006, 10:16

The A-Z of ebusiness (S)

News It does this by converting the incoming digital signal into an analog signal that can be understood by the TV. Satellite TV A TV distribution platform relying on transmission through a satellite dish Scalability

1 January 2002, 14:00

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, 11:04

Intel adds mileage to Wi-Fi

News A standard Wi-Fi antenna broadcasts its signal in a 360-degree circle. Creating a direct signal isn't easy. The antennas need to be precisely aligned with one another, and physical objects that get between the two can interfere with the signal.

28 March 2007, 11:29

How do you get ratings for mobile TV?

News For the last year and half, Nielsen has been distributing detectors that can 'hear' this signal to some members of its audience panels. By comparing the time encoded in the signal with the actual clock time, the company can now tell whether those...

13 December 2005, 10:59