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  Equipment failure grounds flights within 250 miles of Memphis 

  http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/5164948.html

  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Communications equipment failed Tuesday at a regional air-traffic control center, shutting down all airline traffic within 250 miles of Memphis and causing a ripple effect across the country ... that grounded dozens of passenger and cargo flights. The problem started when a major telephone line to the Memphis center went out at 12:35 p.m. EDT. The Federal Aviation Administration said air-traffic control operations were back to normal about three hours later. Air-traffic control centers in adjacent regions handled flights that were already in the air when the problem was discovered. "The airspace was completely cleared by 1:30 (p.m.) Eastern time," FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said. High-altitude flights through the region — which includes parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee — were discontinued while the equipment was being fixed. "What we did is put a ground stop in place for any flight that would transition through th   [More...] [Less...]

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  Japan Leads U.S. in Fast and Cheap Internet Connections - New York Times 

  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/business/worldbusiness/03broadband.html

  Yukari Haruzono, a computer game enthusiast in Tokyo, waited Sunday for an upgrade while her daughter, Yuho, 6, played. She pays $55 a month to be able to download data at high speeds. TOKYO The United ... States may be the world s largest economy, but when it comes to Internet connections at home, many Americans still live in the slow lane. By contrast, Japan is a broadband paradise with the fastest and cheapest Internet connections in the world. Nearly eight million Japanese have a fiber optic line at home that is as much as 30 times speedier than a typical DSL line. But while that speed is a boon for Japanese users, industry analysts and some companies question whether the push to install fiber is worth the effort, given the high cost of installation, affordable alternatives and lack of services that take advantage of the fast connections. Indeed, the stock price of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone , which has two-thirds of the fiber-to-the-home market, has sunk because of concerns about   [More...] [Less...]

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  Novel Semiconductor Structure Bends Light Wrong Way - The Right Direction For Many Apps 

  http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Novel_Semiconductor_Structure_Bends_Light_Wrong_Way___The_Right_Direction_For_Many_Apps_999.html

  An easy-to-produce material made from the stuff of computer chips has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. The semiconductors that constitute ... the Princeton invention are grown from crystals using common manufacturing techniques, making it less complex, more reliable and easier to produce than other metamaterials. Credit: Keith Drake by Staff Writers Princeton NJ (SPX) Oct 16, 2007 A Princeton-led research team has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. This startling property may contribute to significant advances in many areas, including high-speed communications, medical diagnostics and detection of terrorist threats. The new substance is in a relatively new class of materials called "metamaterials," which are made out of traditional substances, such as metals or semiconductors, arranged in   [More...] [Less...]

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  Boston Underground Railway Gets Cellphone Coverage 

  http://www.cellular-news.com/story/28310.php

  Travelers on Boston's public transport train service can now use their mobile phone in selected areas of the underground network. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) General Manager Daniel ... A. Grabauskas announced that wireless services are available, for the first time ever, in the train tunnels connecting the four downtown Boston stations that comprise the core of the nation's first subway. Customers can also use their mobile phones from the eight train platforms at Park Street, Downtown Crossing, Government Center, and State Street Stations. The service is currently limited to customers of T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Additional stations and tunnels are expected to be added to the underground wireless network in 2008 and 2009. The MBTA contracted with InSite Wireless to design, build and operate a wireless infrastructure solution that allows multiple licensed cellular providers to deliver wireless voice and data services to T riders. The system is designed to de   [More...] [Less...]

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  M.T.A. Makes Deal for Cellphones in Stations 

  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/nyregion/20cellphone.html?hp

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  The bill looms for Broadband Britain 

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/25/news

  Richard Wray, communications editor The Guardian Tuesday September 25 2007 Two years ago BT agreed to separate the millions of phone lines in the nation's skirting boards from the rest of its business ... to create a standalone company that would deal equally with any operator that wanted to get into the digital home of the future. Since then Openreach, as that new business became known, has handed over control of more than 3m of the UK's near 30m phone lines to rivals such as Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk and Tiscali, so they can provide services from home telephony and broadband internet access to TV. A further 5m BT lines are being rented by rivals, using BT's wholesale product, for broadband services. As a result, the UK residential telephony market is fast becoming one of the most competitive in the world. But the set-up may soon change again since Ofcom is preparing a fundamental rethink of the UK broadband market. The regulator is asking the entire industry what is needed to pre   [More...] [Less...]

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  Ericsson - the world-leading supplier in telecommunications 

  http://www.ericsson.com/

  Develop your business with the evolving marketplace and be part of the vision of an all communicating world.

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  Boeing thinks big on R&D 

  http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22493932-23349,00.html

  BOEING wants to build a larger research and development presence in Australia to complement its $800 million investment in local defence and component manufacturing businesses. Australia is now the corporation's ... largest footprint outside the US with about 4000 employees scattered around 26 different sites and annual revenues climbing towards the billion-dollar mark. Boeing's military business in Australia is booming - the company now supplies a large part of the RAAF's new airborne capability, ranging from strategic airlift and airborne early-warning aircraft to combat fighters and helicopters. "We are studying having a large R&D presence in the country. There are a lot of unique capabilities in Australia for the Boeing company," Craig Saddler, president of Boeing Australia, told The Australian yesterday. As well as developing its military and commercial aviation businesses, Boeing is teaming with the University of Queensland on researching hypersonic aircraft using scramjet techno   [More...] [Less...]

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  Welcome to Intel 

  http://www.intel.com/

  Discover how this platform is taking the lead in the PC gaming performance race. It's brawl time Get in on the metal-clashing mayhem that is RoboBrawl. It's all about ultimate performance. Configure your ... robot and harness the power of Intel® Xeon® processors to win in the ring and earn some booty. Game on. 45nm…What does it mean? Discover why the 45nm architecture is ground-breaking and the benefits it will bring to your life. Design Squad premieres Find out how high school students are being put to the test to design innovative solutions all for a chance to win a scholarship from the Intel Foundation. "PC Power in Your Handheld" Discover how Intel plans to bring PC-like processing power and better Web experience to handhelds.   [More...] [Less...]

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  British and US military agree secure email protocol - Computerworld UK - The Voice of IT Management 

  http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/security-products/authentication/news/index.cfm?newsid=6964

  January 14, 2008 British and US military agree secure email protocol Major defence manufacturers also back new PKI standard By Ellen Messmer The Ministry of Defence and US defence agencies have agreed ... specifications for secure e-mail and other electronic collaboration. The specifications were agreed through the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Programme, a shared effort between British and American defence agencies and aerospace partners. The TSCP secure e-mail specification is a public-key infrastructure-based technology that assures the identities of authorised users by means of digital certificates that can encrypt and verify e-mail content. TCSP participants include the US Department of Defence, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD), Boeing, EADS, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Rolls-Royce. According to the TSCP, the US Defence Department intends to eventually make use of it to protect information classified under Defence Department guidelines as "Controlled but Uncla   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  digital certificate, communication, defence, defence agencies, defence manufacturers , email, email protocol, encryption, information security, ministry of defence, mod, pki, pki standard, public-key infrastructure, secure email, secure email protocol, security, tscp, verification   [More...] [Less...]