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Apple looks to begin a fresh reinvention on Monday as it rolls out Hollywood stars for its new streaming television service, part of a broad shift of direction for the California technology giant...

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-aiming-reinvention-apple-eyes-streaming.html

Whether you're watching your favorite show on Netflix or backing up all-important cat photos to Google Drive, the "cloud" has become an essential part of our digital lives.

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-streaming-tv-gmail-cloud.html

Thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas, according to a new study by researchers at the Unive...

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-internet-infrastructure-sea.html

US wireless operators Sprint and T-Mobile will form a new company and push development of a super-fast 5G network, the heads of both firms said Sunday.

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-t-mobile-sprint-company-ceo.html

Washington became the first state Monday to set up its own net-neutrality requirements after U.S. regulators repealed Obama-era rules that banned internet providers from blocking content or inter...

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-washington-state-net-neutrality.html

Phone makers will seek to entice new buyers with better cameras and bigger screens at the world's biggest mobile fair starting Monday in Spain after a year of flat smartphone sales.

https://phys.org/news/2018-02-ai-5g-focus-mobile-fair.html

The Federal Communications Commission repealed the Obama-era "net neutrality" rules Thursday, giving internet service providers like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T a free hand to slow or block website...

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-rollback-net-neutrality.html

The acrimonious battle over "net neutrality" in America comes to a head Thursday with a US agency set to vote to roll back rules enacted two years earlier aimed at preventing a "two-speed" intern...

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-moment-truth-net-neutrality.html

Hot, sunny weather could degrade future fifth-generation or "5G" cellular transmissions by more than 15%—which could mean more dropped calls in places like Florida and the Middle East—but an ...

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-hot-sunny-days-5g-networks.html

The top US telecom regulator formally unveiled plans Tuesday to roll back "net neutrality" rules adopted in 2015 aimed at treating all online traffic equally.

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-unveils-net-neutrality.html

Microsoft wants to extend broadband services to rural America by turning to a wireless technology that uses the buffer zones separating individual television channels in the airwaves.

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-microsoft-rural-broadband.html

Mobile phone carriers scooped up airwaves no longer needed by television broadcasters last March in a $19-billion auction designed by UBC and Stanford University researchers.

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-ai-auction-billion-worth-radio.html

Wireless communications is a technology that is used every day. Across society, there is a move away from using the internet on desktop computers and towards smartphones, tablets and laptops. Eng...

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-tool-enable-global-roaming-smart.html

US lawmakers voted Tuesday to roll back rules that would block internet service providers from selling user data to third parties, following a heated debate over privacy protections.

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-lawmakers-privacy-internet-carriers.html

For eighth-grader Lakaysha Governor, her daily two-hour school bus commute had been spent catching up with friends and trying to tune out distractions from unruly preschoolers.

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-wi-fi-wheels-google-students-online.html

Slow wi-fi is a source of irritation that nearly everyone experiences. Wireless devices in the home consume ever more data, and it's only growing, and congesting the wi-fi network. Researchers at...

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-wi-fi-rays-light100-faster-overloaded.html

When Singapore pulls the plug on its 2G mobile phone network this year, thousands of people could be stuck without a signal—digital have-nots left behind by the relentless march of technology.

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-singapore-2g-switchoff-highlights-digital.html

On the crowded morning metro in Helsinki, silence prevails. Everyone is hunched over their smartphone screens, reading the news, checking emails or watching videos.

https://phys.org/news/2016-12-smartphone-obsessed-finns-tops-screen.html

Grab some popcorn—AT&T wants to take you to the movies.

https://phys.org/news/2016-10-att-reportedly-warner-80b.html

Stanford engineers have invented a technology that would allow an internet user to tell network providers and online publishers when and if they want content or services to be given preferential ...

https://phys.org/news/2016-09-technology-net-neutrality-deadlock.html

An undersea cable backed by Google and Asian companies aimed at boosting trans-Pacific broadband was put into service on Thursday, the consortium announced.

https://phys.org/news/2016-06-undersea-cable-us-japan.html

Dutch telecoms group KPN said Thursday that The Netherlands had become the first country in the world to implement a nationwide long range (LoRa) network for the so-called Internet of Things.

https://phys.org/news/2016-06-netherlands-nationwide-internet.html

In a world of 7 billion cell phones, wireless service providers are always searching for ways to maximize the efficiency of wireless spectrum to improve service. The so-called "half duplex" radio...

https://phys.org/news/2016-06-wireless-downloads-duplexing.html

Google on Tuesday unveiled a new landline telephone service aimed at helping consumers stay connected in the Internet cloud.

https://phys.org/news/2016-03-google-unveils-landline-cloud.html

New research by engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Lund, working alongside National Instruments (NI), has demonstrated how a massive antenna system can offer a 12-fold increase in spe...

https://phys.org/news/2016-03-world-5g-wireless-spectrum-efficiency.html

With record-breaking speeds for fiber-optic data transmission, University of Illinois engineers have paved a fast lane on the information superhighway—creating on-ramps for big data in the proc...

https://phys.org/news/2016-03-record-speed-transmission-big-accessible.html

Google on Monday opened its Project Fi mobile phone service to anyone in the United States using its latest model Nexus smartphones.

https://phys.org/news/2016-03-google-access-mobile-fi.html

Doctors could keep better tabs on their patients between visits with a simple wave of a magic wand-like device being developed at Dartmouth College.

https://phys.org/news/2016-03-dartmouth-magic-wand-pairs-medical.html

The upside of Wi-Fi is that it's everywhere - invisibly connecting laptops to printers, allowing smartphones to make calls or stream movies without cell service, and letting online gamers battle ...

https://phys.org/news/2016-02-wi-fi-power.html

Connecting your smartphone to the web with just a lamp—that is the promise of Li-Fi, featuring Internet access 100 times faster than Wi-Fi with revolutionary wireless technology.

https://phys.org/news/2016-02-internet-wi-fi.html