Archive for the ‘Communications’ category

Google announced plans to build experimental ultra high speed broadband networks that would deliver Internet speeds 100 times faster than today.  One gigabit per second speeds would allow to stream 3-D medical imaging over the Web or download a high-definition, full-length movie in few minutes.

Google’s project complements US President Barack Obama’s pledge to bring broadband to every US home as part of the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan.

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University of California Irvine scientists has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to study the neuroscientific and signal-processing foundations of synthetic telepathy with the goal to develop communication systems based on thoughts, not on speech.
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Network coding, a novel wireless-network protocol developed for the U.S. army, breaks the rules by sending not the data itself but rather a description of the data. In simulations, a network using the protocol was five times more efficient than a traditional network. Within the next year, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will test the protocol in field trials.
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EADS Astrium with the Giove-B satellite, has been transmitting the highly precise Galileo signal on 7 May. An important milestone on the road to the European navigation system Galileo, has thus been attained. In the course of the ‘In-Orbit Validation’ (IOV) phase, lasting until 2010, the four navigation satellites already being built by prime contractor Astrium will be deployed in space.
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Fraunhofer ISI questioned experts about the information and communication technologies of the future in a Delphi study. Much is technically feasible, say the experts, but not everything is also desirable.

3D Internet with holograms, super-fast quantum computers or glasses which project the pictures from a PC or television directly onto the eye.
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Researchers created an experiment in which a quantum bit of information is transported across a distance of seven meters and briefly stored in memory. This is the first time that both quantum memory and teleportation, as the information transfer is known, have been demonstrated in a single experiment.
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The company Emotiv unveils to the world the claimed first ever consumer brain computer interface, after more than 4 years of hard work and dedication, major scientific breakthrough and countless innovations.
 

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Pocket devices have been improved a lot since the initial ancestors of current multi technology equipment which implements different technology communications (GSM, CDMA, UMTS, etc) with email, location (GPS) organiser and various applications etc, but in spite of this evolution we are still depending on various devices : (mobile handset, laptop, TV-DVD, organiser, etc).

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