By Staff Reports | Fri, 04/06/2012 - 9:07pm
SAN JOSE, CA – Cisco unveiled a new line of consumer-level wireless routers this week with app enabled capabilities. The three new Linksys routers also offer support for Cisco's "Connect Cloud" software, which provides what the company says is "anytime, anywhere management of multiple home networks."
Cisco also announced it is working with top device manufacturers to simplify their networked products, (such as TVs, entertainment devices and home appliances) to work in conjunction with the router.
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By Staff Reports | Mon, 02/13/2012 - 2:09pm
RALEIGH, N.C. (Business Wire) – Centennial Campus at NC State University just got covered by a “mesh.” Not an actual mesh, but an outdoor Wi-Fi network system that will allow researchers to study everything from network security to healthcare applications.
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By Staff Reports | Fri, 02/10/2012 - 11:30pm
Atlanta, Ga. – Since electronic devices play such a big part in our daily lives, you might think Americans would expect the U.S. to one day become a paperless society.
But that's not what a recent Poll Position survey found. According to the poll, 56% of Americans said they don’t think the U.S. would ever be a paperless society, while 20% said yes, one day we’ll all go paperless. Twenty-four percent of Americans were undecided or had no opinion on the question.›Read More
By Staff Reports | Fri, 02/10/2012 - 6:42pm
RALEIGH, N.C. (PRNewswire) – Verizon made a nearly $300 million investment last year to improve and expand its wireless broadband and voice service in North Carolina, the company said yesterday.
Company officials say its 4G LTE network has now been expanded to cover Asheville, Durham, Fayetteville, Greensboro, High Point, Lumberton, Raleigh, Wilmington, and Winston-Salem.
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By David Biello | Wed, 01/25/2012 - 3:20pm
Imagine a car that could go 300 miles – that’s Chicago to St. Louis – on battery power. That’s not possible today without either an assist from a gasoline-fueled engine functioning as a charger (the Chevy Volt solution) or an alternate drive provider (the Toyota Prius solution). The fact that such cars need, in effect, two engines, means that battery-powered options remain much more expensive than their purely gasoline-fueled peers, which require only a single powertrain.
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By Staff Reports | Mon, 01/09/2012 - 1:00pm
 Acer unveiled the world's thinnest laptop with the Aspire S5, an ultra-slim device that measures only 15 mm at the maximal point. It weighs less than three pounds and is built with a 13.3-inch LCD screen.
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By Staff Reports | Tue, 11/22/2011 - 10:31pm
Atlanta, Ga. – There are a growing number of electronic devices competing for your eyeballs, time and attention.
A Poll Position national scientific telephone survey asked, ‘how many hours a day do you spend looking at either a TV, computer screen, e-reader, PDA or cellphone?’
When combining totals, more than 60% spend between 1-6 hours a day watching electronic devices. Also combining results, 34% said they spend between 7-10 hours, or more, looking at a screen.
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By Staff Reports | Fri, 10/14/2011 - 11:49am
North Carolina State University researchers are part of a team that will be designing a blueprint for a future version of the Internet, with funding from the National Science Foundation.
The research team’s goal is to build a new architectural model for the Internet, which would foster innovation and make the Internet infrastructure more flexible, efficient and economically sustainable. The overarching grant funding is for $2.7 million over the next three years.
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By Staff Reports | Fri, 09/23/2011 - 6:52am
RALEIGH, NC -- Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a way to measure how badly a Wi-Fi network would be disrupted by different types of attacks – a valuable tool for developing new security technologies.
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By Staff Reports | Tue, 08/16/2011 - 10:44pm
SANFORD, NC -- Central Carolina Community College students in Chatham, Lee and Harnett counties can expect greater access to technology materials after the college's library received $18,505 grant by the State Library of North Carolina to update and expand the library's collections in the technology program areas.
According to CCCC Library Services Director Tara Guthrie, the grant will be used to provide books, eBooks, and DVDs for programs such as electronics engineering, laser and photonics, sustainability technologies, among others.›Read More
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