Smart Wi-Fi
"GAO Confirms Some E-Voting Problems"
The Government Accountability Office released a report on Friday confirming the widely held fears about the security and reliability of e-voting machines, citing many machines that fail to produce audit logs and encrypt ballots. Some machines were found to be so vulnerable that a ballot could ...
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"Senate Panel Votes to Boost H-1B Visa Limit by 30,000"
The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to increase the number of H-1B foreign worker visas from 65,000 to 95,000, a jump that is just half that recommended by an earlier proposal. The legislation enjoys the support of many technology vendors, and will provide the additional visas for years ...
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"Poor Nations Are Littered With Old PCs, Report Says"
Vast repositories of obsolete or unfixable electronic equipment shipped by the United States to developing countries pose a serious environmental hazard, according to the Seattle-based Basel Action Network. The group detailed its findings in a report that alleges U.S. recycling businesses ...
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"Nanobots Will Help Battle Ills in Future"
Futurist Ray Kurzweil's new book envisions a world in 30 years that is defined by computers endowed with human faculties such as emotions, and the abilities to cure genetic diseases and defects and increase a human's intelligence. Programmable molecules, or nanobots, will fuse human and ...
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"Microsoft Research Inspires Worldwide Digital Inclusion"
Microsoft Research recently unveiled Digital Inclusion RFP (request for proposal) and Inspire Program, two initiatives that seek to foster computer research and adoption in developing nations. The two programs will examine the technological issues that prohibit advancements in health, education, ...
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"The Sounds of Science"
University of California at Berkeley graduate student Cynthia Bruyns has developed software that enables users to determine how any real or imagined object would sound. The Vibration Lab is designed to work with sound-modeling software that is already available commercially. Users can ...
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"Colleges Oppose Call to Upgrade Online Systems"
Universities are threatening a lawsuit over the recent extension of the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) that requires telephone carries to revamp and, furthermore, pay for the revampment of switching systems so federal investigators can easily obtain ...
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"Okawa Prize Awarded to University Professor"
The Okawa Foundation has acknowledged the contributions of University of Illinois professor Thomas S. Huang to the field of information and telecommunications technology by awarding him its Okawa Prize. The foundation in Tokyo, Japan, honored Huang "for pioneering and sustaining ...
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"Feds Mull Wireless Auction for the Spectrum Left Over When TV Goes All-Digital"
With Congress apparently moving toward setting a 2009 deadline for all broadcasters to switch from analog to digital TV transmission, the question is what should be done with the vacated analog spectrum. Legislators intend to reserve about 30 percent of the spectrum for public safety ...
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"Mind Over Matter"
A team of researchers from Oxford University is seeking to create a technology that will interface with the brain and facilitate more instinctive control of devices such as robotic arms and wheelchairs. The goal is to bring control of external operations into the asynchronous ...
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"Intel Examining 'Indoor GPS' Technologies"
Intel recently detailed a precision-location project as a potential solution to the problem of maintaining one's participation in a teleconference while roaming throughout an indoor setting. The project seeks to make a laptop capable of triangulating its own position in ...
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"EFF Launches Contest to Design GUI for Tor"
The Tor project has unveiled a design competition as a way to gain some input on how to design and implement a public user interface for its anonymous Internet communications programs. "Tor developers are really good at network-level server stuff, but we have much less experience at ...
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"Balloon Beams Broadband Internet From Stratosphere"
The Capanina Consortium has tested a 1.25 Gbps broadband connection provided by a helium balloon hovering in the stratosphere. The rate of data transmission is thousands of times faster than a normal home connection, and the developers are hopeful that the craft might offer ...
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"Sun Official Says Open Source Needs Governance"
The open-source software community is not only populated by good people, which is why Sun chief open-source officer Simon Phipps called for more of a focus on governance for the diverse collective of developers, during his keynote address at the O'Reilly European Open Source Convention in ...
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"Bush Administration Opposes U.N. Net Control"
President Bush brought up the topic of Internet governance this week while speaking with European Commission President Jose Barroso on Tuesday, U.S. officials said without elaborating. Several developing nations are calling for more control of the Internet, and the European Union recently gave its ...
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"AJAX Puts the Browser to Work"
Asynchronous _javascript_ and XML (AJAX) not only delivers full-featured browser-based user interfaces for consumer-oriented applications, but also holds significant benefits for enterprises. AJAX can boost the efficiency of networking and facilitate the implementation of zero-footprint software. ...
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"Taking the Internet to the People"
It is possible for the vast majority of computer or Internet-illiterate people to benefit from Internet access, if the technology's deployment is informed by careful research into the social networks and local resource mobilization strategies that have laid the groundwork for successful public ...
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"Smart Wi-Fi"
The growing popularity of Wi-Fi Internet access is spurring engineers to upgrade the technology in order to deliver punctual, reliable service to users. Second-generation "smart Wi-Fi" enhancements seek to prevent radio-based local-area networks (LANs) from being swamped by traffic, thus ...
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