Japan Looks to Taiwan to Disaster-Proof Telecom
Software and wireless experience could help realize a wireless service that bounces back
UK to Build Advanced Metrology Laboratory
£25 million expansion of National Physical Laboratory is part of a £600 million technology
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Phreaking Out Ma Bell
How a buccaneering young engineer built the little blue box that broke into the biggest network in the world
The End of the Public Phone Network
A Washington, D.C., committee wants to phase out traditional telephony worldwide, by June 2018
Verizon Video Confirms Telecom Cable Damage From Sandy
The company says it's time to upgrade its copper cables to fiber
UltraHD, the TV Technology Formerly Known as 4K, Gets Ready To Hit Store Shelves
The really high resolution, for really big TVs, gets a new name.
Online Advertisers Turning Up the Heat Against Making “Do Not Track” Browsers' Default Setting
Warning letter to Microsoft about IE 10’s do not track default setting states their case
Smart Meter Fires
Add another item to the list of worries slowing the smart grid rollout
Will Unicode Soon Be the Universal Code?
Three-fifths of all Web pages are in Unicode, up from zero a decade ago
IPv6 Is Here to Stay
For the World Launch, major Internet companies and service providers have finally turned on IPv6 for good
Deadline at Hand to Apply for New Top Level Domains
Is it your dream to own .engineer? Today's your last chance.
The Titanic Launched a Century of Emergency Response Technologies
Emergency communications arose after the great ship went down
The Titanic’s Role in Radio Reform
How the sinking of the Titanic sparked a century of radio improvements
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UPDATE: RSA Responds to Flaw Finding
The problem is not in the algorithm; it's in the implementation
EU Proposes Robust New Online Privacy Law
The reform would enshrine right to be forgotten and mandate leak disclosure within 24 hours
Leading Companies Banding Together to Fight Phishing
Agree to use standard email authentication specification to make it harder on phishers
Stopping SOPA
U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren leads the fight against the Stop Online Piracy Act
Video Telephony Has Finally Arrived
Thanks to the power and connectivity of today's mobile devices, video telephony will soon be everywhere
GPS Interference: LightSquared Blames GPS Industry for not Following Standards; GPS Industry Says Hogwash
Latest accusations in dispute
Preserving the Present: Will Your Grandchildren Know What You Looked Like as a Child?
How do you plan to save and make accessible your digital "stuff" for future generations?
67 000 Malware Threats Every Day
Yet a new U.S. Commerce Department report stops short of recommending new legislation
ADP & CIA Hacked; Citigroup Comes Clean; UK NHS Laptop Containing Records on 8.63 Million Patients Gone Missing
Anyone still think IT security not important?
What the WHO's Cellphone-Cancer Statement Really Means
A Q&A with bioengineer Kenneth Foster
Comcast Erects Toll Booths for Delivering Data Over the Net
Big backbone provider accuses U.S. cable television provider of closing the Internet
Black Swans
What if Gaussian engineering is clear, simple, and wrong?
Significant Broadband over Powerline Standard Is Approved
Together with interconnections standards for distributed grid resources, an important contribution to smart grid
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Playing Woodward and Bernstein At Xerox Parc
Xerox Parc celebrates 40 years, while I look back on a little history of my own
WiMax for Smart Grids
The wireless network is unpopular in smartphones but could succeed with smart grids
I'm Buying My Next Cell Phone in San Francisco
San Francisco's new law requires retailers to post mobile phone radiation levels.
Germany Embraces 4G
Germany's spectrum auction first step toward next-gen wireless