THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION’S conditional approval of Verizon Wireless’ acquisition of Alltel Communications L.L.C. and the merger of Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp.’s WiMAX operations could have significant post-election policy and ...
THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION’S conditional approval of Verizon Wireless’ acquisition of Alltel Communications L.L.C. and the merger of Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp.’s WiMAX operations could have significant post-election policy and ...
Sprint Nextel Corp. has decided to continue its commitment to its iDEN network. After much speculation that Sprint Nextel was lining up buyers for the network, the company announced an extended network partnership with iDEN infrastructure provider ...
Astronomers got a new perspective on the sun in April, when NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) probes began sending back the first three-dimensional images of our nearest star. NASA built the twin spacecraft to learn more about ...
After hunkering down for six weeks to ride out a planet-spanning dust storm, the Mars rover Opportunity got back to work in September and began a drive into Victoria Crater, the largest, deepest crater it has yet explored. The main research target was ...
Using a set of simple rules for moving and two knifelike feet, a robot in Germany has learned not only how to walk with a remarkably human gait but also how to ascend a ramp. To be sure, C-3PO and his cinema cousins have been tottering across movie ...
Thanks to wireless technology, rechargers could become a thing of the past. In July, researchers at MIT extended the Wi-Fi concept to allow the beaming of power to anything that uses electricity. Freeing electrical transmission from power lines has ...
“There’s nothing special about this void, except nobody expected to find one this large,” says astronomer Lawrence Rudnick, who led the team that announced the void’s existence in March. The puzzle first emerged when Rudnick, who had decided to study a ...
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