Monthly Archives: November 2010

Clean Power for Mobile Networks

The number of mobile subscribers are growing at unprecedented rate especially in developing countries. However, most of the population in these countries live in rural areas and it becomes challenging to provide electric power to the base stations in these … Continue reading

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Workshop on Wireless Vehicular Communications

On October 12, 2010, Halmstad University organized a Workshop on Wireless Vehicular Communications. The workshop featured an invited speaker Javier Gozálvez from the University Miguel Hernández, Spain, funded by the IEEE VTS as well as presentations by senior researchers from … Continue reading

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Apple watch out – the Androids are attacking

Apple with its innovative interfaces on the iPhone and the iPad has taken the mobile user experience to another level. But now, Apple is getting serious competition in its very sweet spot. TAT (The Astonishing Tribe) has been developing some … Continue reading

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Special Issue of IEEE on Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks

Just a few weeks ago, IEEE published in its proceedings a special issue containing articles that review some of the applications for which the use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has been envisaged. The papers included in this issue, rather … Continue reading

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Geolocation – the definitive answer to White Space usage ?

The Ofcom (UK regulator) consultation report on “Implementing Geolocation” on TV White Spaces regulatory issues, was released this week. It has been pretty clear for a while that “classic” cognitive radio, i.e. using detection of TV-transmitters is not going to … Continue reading

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Chinese vendors pose security risks – says major US operator

Enter the lawyers and lobbyists and the wireless business gets really dirty: Sprint Nextel  has decided to block both Huawei and ZTE from participating in bidding for Sprints multi-billion-dollar network modernization project. The reason is “mounting national security concerns”  about … Continue reading

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Smart Grid @ UBICOMM 2010

The fourth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM), was held last week in Florence, along with other four collocated events all belonging to NexTech 2010. A wide range of topics, including wireless technologies, mobile services … Continue reading

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How (not) to sell LTE … the wireless generation game revisited

After 3 G  (and “Turbo 3G”, 3.5G ;-) )  now we got 4G !   Who needs these generations and what do they actually mean ?  The answer to the first questions is  “the Industry” that needs to sells us something … Continue reading

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Apple doesn’t care for oversleeping customers in Europe?

Due to a bug in the iPhone that affects phones with repeated alarms for any other set up than every day (for example weekdays) a lot of iPhone users in Europe overslept at the Monday this week. The bug is … Continue reading

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