Future smart mobile has to be a true chameleon
By continously adapting the receiver settings of a mobile phone to the current conditions, the advantage is twofold; facing bad reception, the connection can be improved while in good conditions, the energy consumption can be reduced. This is possible by an automatic controller developed by Lodewijk Smit of the University of Twente in The... view more... (2004-01-21)
Mobile payments for anything, anywhere, at all times
Do you need to contact your bank to find out whether a payment has been made or would you like to make a purchase? How about using your mobile phone or PDA to access these services wherever you are? This is now possible, thanks to a secure mobile, universal real-time payment service. view more (2005-04-08)
New Technology Helps Bring The Past To Life
The past is being brought to life through wireless technology thanks to a grant of around EUR145,000 from the Information Society Technology (IST) Programme of the European Union's Framework Programme. The CHOSA (Cultural Heritage Of St Albans) project set out to develop a new way of interpreting and experiencing the Roman Park and remains of the... view more... (2004-04-15)
Concern over new rules on mobile phones in hospitals
Restrictions were originally put in place because of concerns about patient safety. But a lack of evidence has led the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to propose a relaxation of restrictions. view more (2006-10-16)
An intelligent system avoids forgetting things
A team of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) has created a system with Artificial Intelligence techniques which notifies elderly people or people with special needs of the forgetting of certain everyday tasks. view more (2009-08-28)
New communications technology is looking good
High-tech is turning to high fashion as devices such as mobile phones and personal organisers are increasingly expected to look good as well as work well. Researchers at the University of York are working on technical solutions for small and increasingly mobile devices. People in today`s fast-moving digital world want to be able to access... view more... (2002-06-17)
Is it possible to hold a text message conversation?
The use of text message on mobile phones is increasingly popular in all sections of life. But is it possible to actually have a conversation by text messaging? view more (2004-08-23)
Taking Marconi`s Atlantic leap into the virtual zone
December 12th 2001 marks the centenary of Guglielmo Marconi's transmission of the first wireless signal across the Atlantic. Today, a hundred years later, the world of communications technology has advanced way beyond anything Marconi himself could have imagined. There are examples of communications companies all over the world but one in... view more... (2001-12-11)
Health effects from mobile phone radiation
The increasing use of mobile phones has resulted in increased human exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields: already more than 80% of the Finnish population have a mobile phone. Although the electromagnetic fields from mobile phones are weak, the high number of exposed persons, together with some provocative but inconclusive scientific... view more... (2003-10-17)
Hands free mobile phone conversations add 5 metres to drivers' braking distances
Research led by Psychology researchers at the University of Warwick reveals that mobile telephone conversations impair drivers' visual attention to such a degree that it can add over 5 metres to the braking distance of a car travelling at 60 miles an hour, and causes almost twice as many errors as drivers driving without the distraction of a... view more... (2008-12-04)
From wireless to wearable technology
Technology has moved beyond wireless and pocketable to wearable. Clothes and accessories can serve a wider range of purposes than we're currently accustomed to. Wearable technology produced by a Finnish smart clothing R&D center and its partners is selling well. The smart clothing and wearable technology concepts are based on a permanent... view more... (2003-04-23)
INFM research to improve the service of cell phone systems
New superconductor devices for cell phone systems improve the efficiency of receiving cellular phone calls. This is the important result derived from the research project “Superconductor filters for telecommunication”, carried out at the INFM, the National Institute for Physics of Matter, Italy. The project is co-ordinated by Professor... view more... (2001-09-13)
Text messaging speeds up treatment for Chlamydia infection
Text messaging the results of a Chlamydia test speeds up treatment for the infection and cuts down on staff time, suggests a six month study in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. view more (2006-02-02)
More confusion over cellphone safety
UK CONTACT - Claire Bowles, New Scientist Press Office, London: Tel: +44(0)20 7331 2751 or email claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk Written by Duncan Graham-Rowe THE safety of cellphones has been brought into question once again by research that suggests radio waves from the devices could promote the growth of tumours. Paradoxically, the study suggests that... view more... (2002-10-24)
The 2003 European IST Prize Winners - Double Honours for UK Organisations
Two UK organisations have won prizes in the prestigious European Information Society Technologies (IST) Prize competition. It has just been announced that Norwood Systems from Richmond, Surrey and OnRelay from Leatherhead, Surrey are amongst twenty winners from all over Europe for the 2003 competition. The European IST Prize inaugurated in 1995... view more... (2002-10-10)
Cellphones can catch out drug dealers
EMBARGOED UNTIL WEDNESDAY 17 JULY 2002 19:00 BST UK CONTACT - Claire Bowles, New Scientist Press Office, London: Tel: +44(0)20 7331 2751 or email claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk IT`S BECOME an essential tool for drug dealers, but the mobile phone could also prove their downfall. And wiping incriminating calls from the phone`s memory won`t help. It`s the... view more... (2002-07-17)
How telecoms devices will become more user-friendly
In our cover theme on "Usability of end-user devices" we feature articles by leading European experts on what is done to improve the usability of mobile phones, how advances in speech recognition will make devices more usable, and on new ways to interact with end-user devices - via brain-computer interface. In addition, we have an exclusive... view more... (2004-12-21)
The first wireless device for multiple networks
+++ EURESCOM for the first time demonstrates seamless access with a PDA. +++ view more (2002-03-12)
Hurricane Katrina: Phone Home
Though New Orleans residents were told to evacuate days before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, no one could have predicted the real extent of the devastation. view more (2009-07-07)
Drivers make more errors when talking on cell phone than to a passenger
Drivers make more mistakes when talking on a cell phone than when talking to passengers, new research shows. view more (2008-12-01)
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