communication

The Onyx is real-life 'Star Trek' communicator which means it's more like a walkie-talkie but you can establish communication beyond any geographical limitations.

In April, red planet Mars and our beloved living ground the Earth will be exactly at the opposite sides of the Sun. NASA has confirmed that due to such alignment of the planets next month, neither mission controllers from the Earth nor the agency's various Mars spacecraft from space will be able to communicate with each other for few days.

Communication is a very important thing in our life. To communicate with people easily, researchers are trying to bring new ideas and technologies. Messaging is one of the part of communications. A group of scientists along with researchers from the University of Rochester and North Carolina State University have sent a message for the first time…

There is an addiction everything it is said and also to a certain degree everyone is addicted to one thing or another. They may realize their addiction, or they may be oblivion to it, but an addiction exists none the less. For the Brits however, the addiction is to their primary mode of communication, which is a phone or a cellphone. The fear of…

The first optical transmission has been demonstrated to pass at the speed of 1.15Tbps over 10,000 kilometers, thanks to NEC Corporation for their successful experiment. Optical superchannel technology has been used here in this experiment. NEC is a pioneer company in the field of optics for such a long time. This work was conducted by NEC…

IBM, Intel and NEC have aligned forces and At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference scheduled for February next year, their top researchers will be discussing ideas of how to make mainstream products with optical chip-to-chip interconnections. Optical chip-to-chip interconnections are not exactly the freshest apples in the basket, as…

Skype appears to have launched a new app directory in the cloud, allowing users to access all the third-party apps for both consumers and businesses built on top of Skype’s API and the site is fairly simple in functionality for now. Skype has sorted both consumer apps and business into groups by genre and featured the top downloaded free and paid…

Microsoft's acquisition of Skype for $8.5 billion becomes official and combined companies will benefit consumers, businesses and increase market opportunity.This purchase shouldn't affect Skypers outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, as Steve Ballmer's team promises to continue to invest in and support Skype clients on non-Microsoft platforms.Skype…

Fring Group Video goes live, enables four-way mobile video calls for free and this means is that all Fringsters on compatible iOS 4.x and Android 1.5+ devices (1GHz and above recommended) can now have up to three friends on one video call.The group video calling feature will allow Fring users to initiate free video calls on their mobile devices…

Nuance Communications announced an SDK that will allow developers to create apps that integrate the Nuance Dragon apps.Dragon Mobile SDK s available via a new website for iOS and Android developers.....