Comment Re:Bonus time. (Score 1) 224
Are you really sure that the US system is worse than Greek ? Will you emigrate to Greece ? Have you been there recently or read any news about what happens in that country ?
Comment 70,000 small sells according to small cell vendor (Score 2) 124
The calculation is probably correct assuming the whole city needs to be covered by small (femto/pico) cells, which is of course something that small cell vendor would like very much. In reality, many areas with relatively low population/phone density can probably be covered by a macro network and high density areas - shopping malls, apartment buildings, university campuses will need to be covered by femto or pico cells.
Comment Modu (Score 1) 101
This is precisely what (now defunct) Israeli startup Modu tried to develop. They failed, but their patent portfolio was acquired by Google.
Comment Who the heck is Vivek Wadhwa ? (Score 1) 580
The guys is quoted twice on the same slashdot page... do we have slashdot celebrities already ?
Submission + - Math and science education games for kids
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Submission + - Researchers Create Rain By Firing Lasers at Sky (inhabitat.com)
formaggio writes: Last year a team of researchers at Switzerland’s University of Geneva had come up with an interesting way of making it rain– by shooting lasers high up into the sky. At the time it seemed like science fiction, but now it is science fact after the team successfully finished tests around Lake Geneva.
Comment How come they did not have this before !? (Score 1) 129
This is truly an illustration of a recent joke where each new iPhone feature raises the same reaction - damn, they did not have it before !?
Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System (ETWS) has been available for years...
Comment Sounds like a rant (Score 1) 267
Sounds like a rant from many laid off employees. Not to mention that iPhone battery life is actually pretty well, so if we continue their line of thought that Apple got it right, well... looks like RIM got it right too.
Submission + - Actual information about status in Japan 1
demiurg writes: I have a business trip to Japan in the coming weeks. My friends and family tell me not to go and I probably won't. But before making such a decision I'd like to get some actual information to asses how dangerous the situation is. There is no shortage of news, but it is pretty hard to construct an objective picture based on news sites alone. Hence the questions — where geeks look for actual information, not hysteria pumped up news, these days ?
Comment I use it a lot when working with Chinese peers (Score 1) 370
I work a lot with Chinese and often it is next to impossible to remember correctly one peer's name without the business card. Putting just the name on the card is cool, but again will not work in this case - phonetic Chinese transcription (ynyì) can be ambiguous, so you need some additional information.
Cards with QR codes are really useful, I cannot understand why they are not widely used.
Comment Not everybody needs a smartphone (Score 1) 475
Not everybody needs a smartphone. This Steve's piece of wisdom is not applicable to every market. Nokia was never very popular in US, so for many readers this may seem natural, but there is much more to Nokai than what can be seen from the other side of the Atlantic. For starters - they've got brand, huge number of units in the field, IPR and standardization activities and ties with infrastructure vendor NSN - none of which Apple has.
Comment Re:Mostly true, but slightly spun summary. (Score 0) 482
frequency of reports was most directly correlated to the amount of media attention the issue had received
Do I really have to remind you that correlation does not mean causation ? It can be the other way around - the more incidents are reported the more media attention gets drawn to this issue.
Comment Submarine patent (Score 5, Informative) 177
This is not an error, this is called a "submarine patent" were one intentionally writes an abstract which different from the claims. As a typical patent search returns hundreds of patents, reading the whole patent is not feasible, so people either don't bother with patent search at all or read just the abstracts. Having abstract different from the claims makes the patent "invisible", i.e. impossible to find - hence the "submarine" term.
Comment Re:Money talks (Score 1) 400
Many cellular operators deploy DPI as we speak. Welcome to reality, my friend.
