Communications

Fighting Indigestion At the Internet Buffet

A description

South Korea Pushes Mobile Broadband

The WiBro scheme advances

Sultan of Sound

Voice mail, speech recognition, the artificial larynx, packet-switched voice—these commonplace applications build on the pioneering research of James L. Flanagan

The VoIP Backlash

Internet-based telephony saves consumers money by bypassing traditional carriers—but new software lets the carriers block those pennies-per-minute calls

What Ails Broadband

Consumers are offered technology for the sake of technology instead of real services

Total Recall

A Microsoft researcher is determined to record everything about his life. Everything

Her First DARPATech

Back story

Dream Jobs 2008

Studying penguins in Antarctica, watching shooting stars in the South Pacific, tracking robots through the Amazon—yes, this is engineering

Sigrid Close: Star Struck

Dream Jobs 2008

Chip Design Hardwires Security

New microprocessor architecture keeps hackers at bay without compromising security

The New Standard-Bearer

China is now trying to set the rules for many developing technologies

Zipf Drive

Engineering the Harvard Engineer

One man's determined quest to make Harvard a contender in engineering—after 372 years

Europe Looks for a Peer-to-Peer TV Alternative

An open-source P2P project to compete with BitTorrent, Joost, and IPTV

Gadgets Gab at 60 GHz

Cheap silicon transceivers broadcasting in this still-unlicensed band may usher in the hi-def wireless home

Loser: No Payoff for Galileo Navigation System

Europe's answer to GPS isn't worth it

Loser: Satellite TV Soccer Moms Will Hate

Sirius's car TV may be great technology, but it will drive parents crazy

Loser: Social Networking Goes To The Dogs

A $200 RFID dog tag tells owners—and their neighbors—when their pets are alive, at home, and sniffing things

Tell Us What You Think

Why Losers?

We don't do this because we're mean spirited. We do it because we care

Radio interfaces make the difference in 3G cellular systems

More service providers opt for wideband code-division multiple access for the radio interface, but time-division multiple access is not dead yet

Telephone TV

Broadcasting television to mobile phones

Wi-Fi Hotspot Networks Sprout Like Mushrooms

The trend is universal, but Europeans seem to have advantages in roaming and revenue collection

Wireless Broadband In a Box

Non-line-of-sight wireless systems promise strong signals for high-speed Internet access

Supply Risk, Scarcity, and Cellphones

The data