(AP) -- For the first time, more people around the world are signing up for fiber-optic broadband service than for cable Internet service, according to a British research firm.
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FAA outage reveals odd computing practices
(AP) -- When a computer glitch at a Federal Aviation Administration center caused widespread airline delays this week, it served as a reminder that the U.S. flight system is waiting for a modernizing overhaul. But it also appears the FAA's management of its existing technologies falls short of standards in other vital sectors.
Collaboration helps make JILA strontium atomic clock 'best in class'
A next-generation atomic clock that tops previous records for accuracy in clocks based on neutral atoms has been demonstrated by physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The new clock, based on thousands of strontium atoms trapped in grids of laser light, surpasses the accuracy of the current U.S. time standard based on a "fountain" of cesium atoms.
'Smart' traffic boxes could help monitor roads, save money
Ohio State University engineers are working to make the traffic control boxes that stand beside major freeways smarter.
Thirty-Two Mile Cable Installed for First Deep-Sea Observatory
Oceanographers have completed an important step in constructing the first deep-sea observatory off the continental United States. Workers in the multi-institution effort laid 32 miles (52 kilometers) of cable along the Monterey Bay sea floor that will provide electrical power to scientific instruments, video cameras, and robots 3,000 feet (900 meters) below the ocean surface. The link will also carry data from the instruments back to shore, for use by scientists and engineers from around the world.
The Web: Webcasting a 'viable' secondary market
The Walt Disney Co.'s ABC Television Group is making a major foray into Internet television -- this spring and summer -- but the aggressive marketing move may be premature, experts are telling United Press International's The Web column.
Is 'super-broadband' worth it for business?
Telecommunications researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a system with the potential to deliver the fastest broadband and wireless access yet to businesses in the next five years.
NTT Develops Optical fiber Cord that can be easily bent, folded, and tied, and enables easy connections
NTT Corp. has developed a revolutionary new optical fiber cord that offers a degree of freedom in cable installation that was considered impossible using conventional optical fiber. The new cable uses "Holey fiber"(*1),an optical fiber with a new composition, for which NTT opened the way for new applications ahead of any other manufacturer in the world.
Firms debut 100 Mbps broadband in Japan
An industry consortium in Japan has unveiled technology capable of providing home broadband speed up to 100 megabits per second over existing cable.