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Google Claims Chinese Government Trying to Fake Gmail Problems

Google claims the Chinese government is intentionally causing problems for local users trying to access Gmail in order to make it look as if its popular service is unreliable.For the past couple of weeks users in China have reported significant problems when trying to use Gmail. These have ranged from a complete lack...

22 March 2011
03:45 GMT

Design Flaw Makes iPhone 4 Virtually Unusable as a Phone, Tests Show

Apple has a big problem on its hands with the newborn iPhone 4, and it’s not the fact that white models are harder to manufacture. It’s actually something much worse - iPhone 4 has serious reception issues. When the device is held by its steel frame, which acts as the phone’s antenna, the operator s...

24 June 2010
04:33 GMT

Apple Magic Mouse Sucks Batteries Dry - Apple Discussions

Don’t be fooled, it’s not the Magic Mouse that’s suffering from any battery issues. The ignorant, little rodent couldn’t be healthier, especially with all the updates installed. It’s the wireless Apple keyboards whose batteries are being sucked dry. However, it appears that the problem s...

4 January 2010
03:36 GMT

Magnetically Fastened iPhone Cases May Reduce Signal Strength, Apple Says

Apple has updated one of the hundreds of technotes detailing possible issues iPhone users may encounter, this time revealing that the phone may experience a loss of signal, or reduced signal strength, if kept in a carrying case that uses magnets. Last Modified on September 30, 2009, Support article HT2342 bears the ...

1 October 2009
08:58 GMT

What Ferrite Chokes Are

I'm certain that most of the people reading this article have noticed at some point in time that some of the cables connecting the peripherals to a personal computer have some strange looking 'bumps' (see lower image). If you did, then you might have also asked yourselves what those things are and what...

29 July 2008
08:43 GMT

Researchers Discover 'Super Strength' Signal Window for Wireless Devices

The signal strength of wireless devices is greatly dependent on the distance between the receivers communicating with each other, albeit according to a new study carried out at the University of Leicester, sometimes radio signal strength can be boosted and carried over large distances of land and water, potentially i...

16 May 2008
10:54 GMT

Bluetooth-over-Wi-Fi Kills Nearby WiMax Networks

The upcoming Bluetooth standard based on the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth hybrid technologies has been accused by a WiMedia Alliance company to be crippling the nearby WiMax networks because of its severe interference ratio. According to it, all the WiMax and cellular networks situated in the proximity of a Bluetooth 2.0 netw...

22 March 2008
04:47 GMT

What to Do with World's Most Accurate Laser?

Most of the problems related to lasers nowadays is the so-called photon noise, which determines fluctuations in the laser beam intensity, due to random quantum mechanics interactions, that ultimately reduces the sensitivity of the device. Physicists from the Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (known as the Al...

26 January 2008
05:23 GMT


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