Computer dating principles applied to buying a home
Consumers soon may put the same kind of research and analysis into deciding where to buy or build a home as corporations do when looking for a site for a...
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Payment by fingerprint disappears
Jan Bledsoe was shocked Thursday to learn she can no longer just swipe her finger across a screen at the local Jewel store to buy her groceries because the bankrupt...
Software ensures emergency news reaches phones
Wildfires that swept across Southern California last month exposed a flaw in systems that transmitted evacuation warnings: People who depend on cell phones or Internet-based services often didn't get the...
Wireless hopeful faults FCC inaction on spectrum request
Even though Chicago backed away from building a citywide wireless broadband service, as have several other cities, some people still hope to offer free wireless Internet, not just here but...
Portable phone’s inventors didn’t foresee its popularity
Even years after engineers designed and built the first portable phone, they had no inkling it would become popular with consumers. Their task, undertaken in late 1972, was mostly driven...
Telephone book hopes facts will ring true
Despite widespread belief that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, people who look deeply into the matter keep concluding that he didn't. Indeed, the first working telephone was built by...
Do multiple wireless systems cause chaos or create neutrality?
Recent efforts to reprogram iPhones to work on a network besides AT&T's focused on using T-Mobile's service -- not on Verizon Wireless' network or Sprint's -- and for good reason....
Start-up wires money using wireless phone
People use mobile phones to take photos, play music and send text messages, and maybe soon to send money to relatives abroad. That's the goal of a start-up company based...
AT&T goes door to door for sales
Companies love to interact with customers online because it's more efficient than providing a live customer representative on the phone, but as telecom competition escalates, the players find they can't...
‘Ionic wind’ could help keep devices from overheating
Excessive heat plaguing consumer electronics stems from electrons racing through microchips that make the gadgets operate, and how might one solve this problem? Pump in a few more electrons. Purdue...