Swedish court to issue verdict in Pirate Bay case
(AP) -- Innovative digital pioneers or reckless cyber pirates? The founders of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay are either heroes or villains depending on whom you ask.
View ArticleHollywood scores win over Pirate Bay, 4 convicted
(AP) -- The entertainment industry won round one Friday in a legal battle against file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, with guilty verdicts and one-year prison sentences handed down to four men accused of...
View ArticleVerizon pushes faster (and pricier) FiOS bundles
(AP) -- Verizon is boosting speeds on its FiOS service. And it's throwing in a high-definition Flip video camera or Hewlett-Packard computer to get you to join.
View ArticleInternet service providers not keeping up with user trends
There's a revolution happening on the Internet -- though broadband providers have not seemed to notice.
View ArticleQwest doubles top broadband speed in some cities
(AP) -- Qwest is doubling its top Internet download speeds in some areas to keep up with the offerings of cable companies.
View ArticleUS ranks 28th in Internet connection speed: report
The United States ranks 28th in the world in average Internet connection speed and is not making significant progress in building a faster network, according to a report released on Tuesday.
View ArticleSamsung LTE Dongle Is Now Available for TeliaSonera's World First Commercial...
Samsung Electronics has announced the commercial availability of its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) dongle in Sweden and Norway.
View ArticleBreakthrough for mobile television
Long Term Evolution, the new mobile telecommunications standard, will revolutionize mobile Internet. High transmission rates will soon be possible on mobile devices. For this purpose Fraunhofer...
View ArticleFiber-optic speeds achieved over copper lines
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent's research arm, has demonstrated industry record broadband download speeds of up to 300 Megabits per second using two traditional twisted pair copper...
View ArticleFCC plans study to measure broadband speeds
(AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission wants to find out whether broadband providers are delivering Internet connections that are as fast as advertised.
View ArticleWi-Fi hotspot option for 2011 Subaru Outback
(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2011 Subaru Outback model will include the option of a secure Wi-Fi hotspot to provide Internet access for over 10 users either inside the car or within a range of 45 meters (150...
View ArticleMetroPCS fires up cutting-edge wireless network
(AP) -- MetroPCS Communications Inc., a regional cell phone company that mainly caters to low-income customers, on Tuesday became the first U.S. carrier to use a new network technology that provides...
View ArticleThailand's bid for high-speed Internet stalled
(AP) -- Thailand's bid to catch up with neighboring countries on advanced telecommunications technology has stalled after a court Thursday ruled to suspend a bidding process for 3G licenses.
View ArticleVerizon, other wireless carriers vary on standards for high-speed 4G service
There is no 4G. Much like the secret to bending spoons in "The Matrix," the next generation of wireless networks is very cool but built on a bit of misdirection.
View ArticleMobile Internet device performs unevenly in debut
If you could take broadband Internet with you, where would you take it? To an airport, a coffee shop or - this being Los Angeles - the beach, where you can surf the Net while watching surfers ride the...
View ArticleWhose 4G is fastest? AT&T, Sprint or Verizon
Just because you slap a shiny label on something doesn't make it so. All the major wireless carriers are now touting faster 4G networks, but the networks themselves are far from identical.
View ArticleVerizon's 4G Droid Charge is brilliant, speedy, reliable and expensive
No doubt you've seen the commercials telling us we all need to upgrade to 4G smartphones this summer.
View ArticleSouth Korea tops in Internet download speed: study
South Korea has the world's top Internet download speeds followed by Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Latvia, according to a study released on Tuesday.
View ArticleVerizon to auction spectrum worth billions
Verizon Wireless on Wednesday said it will auction a parcel of radio frequencies, which could be worth billions of dollars in an industry scrambling to offer consumers more cellular broadband.
View ArticleHuawei reveals 'fastest smartphone in the world'
Huawei, a Chinese company that recently became the world's third-largest maker of smartphones, calls its new flagship product "the fastest smartphone in the world" and wants to use it to expand global...
View ArticleLightning-fast mobile hits speed bump in Europe
Lightning-fast fourth generation mobile networks are spreading rapidly worldwide, led by the United States, Japan and South Korea, but Europe lags behind and its economic crisis could brake investment,...
View ArticleMobile industry sees 4 bn subscribers by 2018
The $1.0-trillion (750-million-euro) global mobile industry predicted Monday a boom in subscribers to four billion people by 2018 as the world's largest mobile fair opened in Barcelona, Spain.
View ArticleFaster-than-superfast Internet, and why we can't have it (yet)
You may have read about Sony's plan to install a fibre-based internet service in Japan which could reach download speeds of 2 gigabits a second (Gbps). That's 20 times faster than speeds offered by...
View ArticleFor apartment building owners, Google Fiber can be a tough sell
Promising superspeed Internet connections might someday be as critical to drawing renters to apartments as off-street parking or on-site laundry machines.
View ArticleFCC to hear presentation of new FCC Speed Test App for Android
(Phys.org) —Newly appointed head of the FCC, Tom Wheeler will be getting a briefing on what the agency calls the FCC Speed Test App for Android, this week—it's an app that once approved, developed and...
View ArticleNetflix will 'just work' for buyers of new 4K TVs
Netflix says video streaming in ultra-high definition will "just work" for buyers of new UHD sets from Sony, LG, Samsung, Vizio and others.
View ArticleWhat Google Fiber may mean for North Carolina, NC state and R&D
On Jan. 27, Google announced that it would be expanding its fiber-optic network, Google Fiber, into four new metropolitan areas: Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, Atlanta and Nashville. So what?
View ArticleSeveral popular smart phones fail to reach normal Internet speeds
A lot of users are using outdated mobile devices that fail to reach adequate speeds on mobile networks. This is shown by measurements shared by the users of Netradar, a free mobile application that...
View ArticleBroadband ISPs test download caps, face resistance from more data-heavy users
All-you-can-eat buffets lose a lot of their luster when you have to pay by the pound. Will the same hold true for broadband Internet access?
View ArticleSlow mobile buffering a horror show: Ericsson
Video streaming delays generate as much stress as watching a horror film, the Swedish telecom company Ericsson said Wednesday.
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