Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern

The neutrinos are fired deep under the Italian Apennines at Gran Sasso Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light. Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a second early. The result - which threatens to upend a century of physics - will be put online for scrutiny by other scientists....

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Droid Bionic scavenger hunt kicks into full gear

Motorola and Verizon are sending eager smartphone buyers on a scavenger hunt across the Web for one of the fall’s hottest new devices, the Droid Bionic. The company recently launched an augmented reality scavenger hunt app — available through the Android Store — that gives players a chance at winning one of 192 smartphones. The app directs players to use their smartphones or tablets to chase down components. The smartphone is supposed to be another credible competitor to Apple’s iPhone 5,...

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Sprint files suit to block AT&T, T-Mobile merger

Sprint Nextel on Tuesday filed a complaint in federal court aiming to block AT&T’s $39 billion bid for T-Mobile. The suit follows the Justice Department’s lawsuit filed last week, also trying to prevent the merger between the nation’s second- and fourth-largest wireless carriers. Sprint Nextel said in its suit, filed in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, that AT&T’s proposed merger with T-Mobile would violate antitrust laws. By taking legal action,...

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Mobile Communication Technology

Mobile communication technology is a term that is basically given to the technology used as the communication mode for the portable devices such as cellular phones, laptops, palmtops, digital assistants, global positioning systems, wireless card payment systems etc.There are many technologies that are used in communication of these devices such as wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi), GSM services (2G and 3G), GPRS, Bluetooth, Virtual Private Networks, dial up modems etc. Using these technologies, one can easily communicate from office, home,...

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How Does a Wireless Access Point Work?

Wireless networks have been available for quite a number of years now, and prior to their introduction the only option available for Local Area Networks was through the use of copper, twisted pair cabling. A Wireless Access Point is used in a Wi-Fi network as a central hub, to allow wireless client devices to connect through to a wired network. The WAP authenticates wireless clients and then relays data between other wireless clients and also devices on the wired network. A Wireless Access Point will often be connected through a router...

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