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Espectr0 writes “A Venezuelan professor along with his team have set a new record for the longest WiFi link. Using commodity hardware, they established a connection between a PC in El Águila, Venezuela, and one in Platillón Mountain, a distance of about 237 miles. The previous record was 193 miles. Slides [PDF] are also available.”
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Original post by ScuttleMonkey and software by Elliott Back
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group, an 8,000-member trade association, announced Tuesday it will make Wibree, a low-power, short-range wireless technology developed by Nokia, the foundation for a new form of Bluetooth. Wibree could be used to connect devices like heart monitors and watches, according to Nokia. “The development work for Wibree began when we discovered a series of interesting new use scenarios that no current local connectivity solution was addressing,” explained Nokia’s Jarkko Sairanen.
Original post by Walaika Haskins and software by Elliott Back
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alphadogg writes “Answers to wireless network questions such as: What impact will 802.11n have? Which wireless security threats are scariest? What of wireless VoIP? Will your organization need to change to support enterprise mobility? How do you control costs in an expanding mobile and wireless environment? What can you do to stop wireless denial-of-service attacks?”
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Original post by CmdrTaco and software by Elliott Back
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Power cords and chargers may rule the technological world today, but their days could be numbered, thanks to a breakthrough at MIT. It’s called “WiTricity,” and it’s essentially the transfer of power through the air, without wires. It was demonstrated by a team of researchers from MIT’s Department of Physics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, and was reported in Thursday’s edition of Science Express.
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Original post by Katherine Noyes and software by Elliott Back
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The 700 MHz spectrum could give birth to the much-anticipated third pipe, but phone and cable lobbyists are currently pressuring the FCC to sell companies like AT&T and Verizon our airwaves — in a flawed auction process — so they can hoard this valuable spectrum and stifle competitive alternatives to their networks. Google and other would-be providers are not taking it lying down. They want the FCC to mandate that whoever wins the auction be required to sell access to those airwaves, at wholesale prices, to anyone wanting to provide broadband Internet service. They also want anonymous auctions to prevent the giant incumbents from manipulating the results against small players (as they have done in the past).
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Original post by twitter (posted by kdawson) and software by Elliott Back
