Two satellites have become the first to exchange information from different orbits using a laser . The feat may lead to super-fast data-relay systems between spacecraft.
The laser link took place on Friday between two satellites designed to test communications technologies.
How can a company be just about everywhere, and yet nobody knows its name? Just ask Michel Mayer, chief executive of Freescale Semiconductor.
Mayer's $6 billion Austin, Texas-based company, a recent spin-off from Motorola, is one of the 10 largest microchip manufacturers in the world. When it comes to brand awareness, it's another story.
For a fee, TiVo Series 2 owners will soon be able to export recorded content to anything that can understand the MPEG-4 format, notably the iPod and the Sony PSP.
Since TiVo does not have license to the DRM used by either Sony or Apple, there had to be some other means of discouraging (because you can't ever hope to eliminate it) unauthorized copies of Survivor: Guatemala and Monday Night Football: Green Bay at Baltimore from making the rounds on the usual P2P networks. Enter the watermark; the networks should have been happy. Except it didn't really work out that way.
For AMD and Intel, it is just a matter of time before single-core processors become a thing of the past. The future thus belongs to devices that might pack two or eventually more than a dozen physical processing units onto a single physical die. However, it is a common assumption that processor cores have to come in even numbers, which is, in fact, not the case.
To the players it is fun and games, but there's a great deal of very complex "behind-the-scenes" technology at work in today's global online gaming environment.
The network architecture for online gaming is growing increasingly sophisticated as the genre evolves.
Industry observers note that in just a few decades, games have moved light-years away from gobbling pacmans and primitive graphics.
Radio Frequency identification technology is facing network security challenges. That's the consensus from TechBiz Connection panelists participating in a discussion on RFID last week at an industry gathering in Irvine, Calif.
A U.N. technology summit was focused Thursday on bringing more communications, including Internet access, to developing countries where the cost has been too high and the technology too low-tech.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade were among the leaders scheduled to address the World Summit on the Information Society, which ends on Friday.
Skype's biggest problem isn't about being popular, it's being popular with the wrong crowd. According to specialists, the VoIP software is used on a large scale by terrorists organizing their next hits.
A California company is marketing its RFID monitoring and surveillance technology as a way to potentially limit the spread of bird flu in Asia.
Smart-tek Solutions announced a plan Thursday to leverage its expertise and technology in attempts to containavian influenza.
A THEORY first proposed by Albert Einstein 70 years ago has provided the basis for a new electronic "key" that could spell the demise of computer hackers.
Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have successfully used bright lasers to prevent transmitted data from being hacked.
Their breakthrough was based on work done by Einstein and his colleagues in 1935 who uncovered a phenomenon known as entanglement, a theory which described the way particles of energy interacted predictably with each other.
