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Internet users around the world are attracted by
the availability of information.

Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.

The survey – of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries – found strong support for net access on both [...]

A novel acoustic system could enable small aircraft, which often go unnoticed by one another, avoid midair collisions

ACOUSTIC VECTOR SENSOR: AVS uses nanoscale materials to alert pilots to other aircraft within about 10 kilometers. The heart of AVS is a one-millimeter-wide, two-millimeter-long and 300-micrometer-thick anemometer (which measures wind speed) that is smaller than a match [...]

A new Europe-wide rule to prevent mobile phone users from building up large bills for surfing the internet via their handset has come into force.

Brussels wants people to more happy to access the internet when abroad.
Customers can now require their phone firm to cut them off when their bill reaches a certain level after accessing [...]

Online news has become more popular than reading newspapers in the US, according to a survey.

Reading newspapers has become less popular in the US and UK.
It is the third most popular form of news, behind local and national TV stations, the Pew Research Center said.
"News awareness is becoming an anytime, anywhere, any device activity for [...]

Using a cell phone as a remote control, residents can control the energy use of their appliances. (Credit: Copyright Fraunhofer-FIT)

ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 2010) — In order to save energy, consumers need to be able to obtain up-to-date information at any time about the energy consumption of their appliances, and be able to control them while [...]

NASA's Deep Space Network is building new antennas to improve communications and the first phase will take place at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex in Australia. This image of the Canberra complex shows four Deep Space Network antennas. The Deep Space Network is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (Credit: NASA/JPL/CDSCC)

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An artist's conception of how the optical modem could function at a deep ocean cabled observatory. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) collect sonar images (downward bands of light) and other data at a hydrothermal vent site and transmit the data through an optical modem to receivers stationed on moorings in the ocean. The moorings are connected [...]

An Internet user tries to log onto social networking site Facebook in Tehran May 25, 2009. The Farsi text reads ''Dear Customer, access to this site is not possible. In the event that this site has been mistakenly filtered please email filter@dci.ir with the name of the domain and any other necessary explanation.'' Credit: Reuters/Morteza [...]

An advertisement for the Apple iPhone is shown at a retail store of an Orange mobile phone network provider in Bordeaux, southwestern France, October 23, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Regis Duvignau

HELSINKI/LONDON (Reuters) – At next week's mobile trade show in Barcelona you can find a program that measures how high you can throw a Nokia smartphone, an [...]

ScienceDaily (Jan. 28, 2010) — Light is better than radio waves when it comes to some wireless communications, according to Penn State engineers. Optical communications systems could provide faster, more secure communications with wider bandwidth and would be suitable for restricted areas like hospitals, aircraft and factories.

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Sending information via light waves either in physical [...]