The FCC is stepping up its data collection on mobile broadband service, bringing its information on wireless on par with the statistics it holds on fixed Internet access. The Commission has already taken steps to produce accurate measurements of fixed broadband service, but its data on the performance of mobile broadband has been limited. Under […]
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Pace blends in ThinkAnalytics’ recommendation engine
Pace is taking a deeper dive into personalization by adding ThinkAnalytics’ recommendation engine into its Cobalt Media Head End and software. While recommendation engines are still somewhat of a novelty to cable operators, London-based ThinkAnalytics first deployed its multi-platform personalized recommendation engine in 2006. Earlier this summer, the company announced that it had surpassed 70 […]
Amino gets add-on Wi-Fi from Celeno
Amino Communications will be offering a USB Wi-Fi dongle, built around Celeno’s Wi-Fi chipsets and including software for HD multimedia home networking applications, with its A140/A540 set-top boxes (STBs). These models are designed for the retail market for IP-based services. Service providers can provide the dongle, enabling users to wirelessly transfer streamed HD content to […]
T-Mobile goes live with unlimited data plan
T-Mobile USA has gone live with a new unlimited data plan that could help it compete with rival Sprint, the only other top-tier provider in the country to offer all-you-can-eat plans. The plan, first announced in August, differs from T-Mobile’s other data plans by not slowing down speeds for customers who consume a capped amount […]
Yale team finds order amidst the chaos within the human genome; Mom and Dad’s contributions counted and fossil DNA not dead after all
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project is the effort of hundreds of scientists to describe the workings of the human genome. Their research, outlined in 30 papers published in multiple journals Sept. 5, has confirmed our genome is far more complex than originally thought. Regions that contain instructions for making proteins, which carry out […]
Fast and furious: Building a network in 60 days
For CMC and its partners iN Demand and Pac-12, it’s been game on. Assembling a network from scratch in 60 days isn’t for the faint of heart. Rarely, if ever, has it been done before on the scale of the Pac-12 Enterprises networks that will begin this month, delivering more than 850 events annually to […]
FPGAs: The “G” doesn’t stand for “Green” – but it could
FPGAs could help the telecom industry reduce power consumption. In the last couple of years, service providers have developed a greater awareness of how they can take better control of their energy use and energy costs. For every piece of cable equipment produced, there is an associated, additional cost to cool that equipment. This is […]
UK paraplegic woman first to take robotic suit home
(Reuters) – A British woman paralyzed from the chest down by a horse riding accident has become the first person to take home a robotic exoskeleton that enables her to walk. Although bionic exoskeletons have been used in hospitals and rehabilitation centers, Claire Lomas is the first to take the ReWalk suit home for everyday […]
Mapping neurological disease
Disorders such as schizophrenia can originate in certain regions of the brain and then spread out to affect connected areas. Identifying these regions of the brain, and how they affect the other areas they communicate with, would allow drug companies to develop better treatments and could ultimately help doctors make a diagnosis. But interpreting the […]
Army scientists demonstrate rapid detection of nerve agents
ADELPHI, Md. (Sept. 5, 2012) — Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory are exploring ways to quickly alert Soldiers to deadly gaseous nerve agents in the air using a new approach termed multi-wavelength photoacoustics. Kristan Gurton, an experimental physicist in the Battlefield Environment Division, or BED, Computational and Information Sciences Directorate at U.S. Army […]