On October 29th, the Internet will turn 40 years old. Marking this occasion, IEEE has held an international event in Los Angeles, USA to mark its own 125th anniversary and the upcoming birthday of the former ARPAnet project, currently referred to as the Internet. At this event many renowned scientists and Internet ex... |
18 September 2009
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The next-generation wireless 802.11n standard could be made official earlier than expected, according to a recent email from Bob Heile, the chairman of the IEEE 802.15 working group on Personal Area Networks. The mail states that the IEEE 802.11n draft standard has been set for approval at the Standards Review Commit... |
22 July 2009
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The 1394 Trade Association is a worldwide organization dedicated to the advancement of the IEEE 1394 standard. In a press release issued by the organization yesterday, Apple’s decision to include 1394b in its newest MacBook Pro computers is lauded, as it “emphasizes the superior performance of FireWire800... |
11 June 2009
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New research on creating cheaper imaging techniques, able to identify concealed weapons on the human body, have also yielded potential uses in the aviation industry, in helicopter landing guidance systems more specifically, as well as for high-frequency data communications, experts from the University of California i... |
10 June 2009
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In an effort to accelerate and broaden the adoption of IEEE standards-based technologies, VIA Licensing Corporation and the IEEE Standards Association have recently announced a collaboration effort by which the two companies will try to create patent licensing programs, also known as patent pools, around some of the ... |
9 December 2008
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Today's 802.11 b/g wireless standard could soon be history as the emerging 802.11n Wi-Fi networking standard is expected to become the next major upgrade to current wireless technology. Although you might think that the 802.11n has already been released, the fact is that equipment manufacturers have released the... |
19 September 2008
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The 802.11n 100Mbps wireless LAN standard is nearing completion, and it seems that the IEEE working group is preparing for the launch of a new 1Gbps WLAN standard project, or, to put it in other words, gigabit Wi-Fi. A Very High Throughput (VHT) Study Group was formed last year for the exploration of the possibility ... |
13 September 2008
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IEEE 1394, which is very well known under the names of Firewire or i.Link, seems to be getting ready for a speed enhancement by the end of the year. The new IEEE 1394-2008 specification, which will offer support for up to 3.2 Gb/s bandwidth, has been recently approved by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electron... |
30 July 2008
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Wireless standards are coming and going at an annual rate, as the 802.11n standard gets some more market acceptance, the "Draft n" of the standard being ratified. Because the new standard comes with a few new features, almost all wireless hardware manufacturers from Intel to the white box vendors are interested in th... |
23 August 2007
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE as it is commonly known among computer hardware and software specialists, is a group centered mainly on the standardization and formalization of the different approaches to solve a particular problem in the IT world. Most protocols used by the computer in... |
24 July 2007
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Charles P. Thacker joined Microsoft Research in 1997 and is one of the 18 Microsoft Technical Fellows. He has been interested in engineering ever since he was a little child. Later, he became fascinated by physics and computers. Now his activities in this domain bring him the prestigious John von Neumann medal for ou... |
16 June 2007
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