A scholarly article on cell phone safety reports the finding that cell phones used in the shirt or pants pocket exceed FCC exposure guidelines and that children absorb twice as much microwave radiation from phones as do adults.The paper notes that the industry-designed process for evaluating microwave radiation from phones results in children absorbing twice the cell phone … [Read more...]
University Uses Ethernet Radio to Bridge Campus Network
Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) is utilizing BridgeWave Communication's 80 GHz millimeter wave systems to connect several disparate campus buildings across the Portage shipping canal. BridgeWave's gigabit wireless Ethernet bridges eliminate the network disruptions the campus had struggled with previously, while providing an affordable alternative to … [Read more...]
Wireless Products Interfere with Emergency Communications in Japan
The government of Japan reported that use of certain foreign-made products are running on radio wave frequencies that do not comply with the regulations established in Japanese law. The wireless devices are causing interference to the local Japanese emergency services, cellular-phone services and other local businesses, such as trucking companies, that all pay to use … [Read more...]
Apple Blocks Cell Phone Radiation App
Apple has blocked an application for the iPhone that tells owners when radiation levels have inched up too high and provides advice on how to counter the potentially damaging effects of phone radiation. The company that invented the app says that its solution gives users the information and tools to avoid mobile phone radiation as much as possible. It works by "mapping" homes … [Read more...]
Air Crews Use Tablets Instead of Flight Bags
Flight bags jammed with maps, performance logs, operations manuals and more are being replaced with tablet computers.Air Mobility Command is taking the lead on tablets, using a variety to help lighten the load of aircrews. No more heavy manuals for maintainers to lug around or mounds of paper for pilots to sift through. The Aeronautical Systems Center’s Engineering Avionics … [Read more...]
Americans Seek Shelter from Wi-Fi in West Virginia Mountains
Dozens of Americans who claim to have been made ill by Wi-Fi and mobile phones have flocked to the town of Green Bank, W.V.An estimated 5% of Americans believe they suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), which they say is caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields typically created by mobile phones, Wi-Fi and other electronic equipment. Symptoms range from acute … [Read more...]
San Francisco Passes Cell Phone Radiation Law
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed a new ordinance requiring cell phone retailers to display and distribute a state-produced fact sheet that explains radio frequency emissions from cell phones and how consumers can minimize their exposure.This ordinance amends the city's controversial Cell Phone Right to Know Act, a similar law passed last year that required cell … [Read more...]
Norfolk Wireless Broadband Project Delayed by Anti Wi-Fi Group
The WiSpire scheme, which is aiming to extend broadband provision in rural areas by installing transmitters on church spires, has attracted complaints from anti Wi-Fi charity ElectroSensitivity UK. ElectroSensitivity UK has claimed electromagnetic fields can cause dry skin, chest pains and other symptoms.The organization said it is not opposed to the use of the technology in … [Read more...]
Increasing Fuel Efficiency with a Smartphone
Researchers from MIT and Princeton University created a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on car dashboards to collect information about traffic signals and tell drivers when slowing down could help them avoid waiting at lights. By reducing the need to idle and accelerate from a standstill, the system saves gas: In tests conducted in Cambridge, Mass., it helped … [Read more...]
Researchers Combat Wi-Fi RF Interference
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin have developed a system called Airshark that detects multiple non-Wi-Fi RF devices in real-time, allowing for immediate remediation of wireless devices to take steps to mitigate interference from non Wi-Fi devices.Airshark detects not only individual, non-Wi-Fi RF devices, but it is designed to also pinpoint simultaneously operating … [Read more...]
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