Stories about: Vicinity

Apple's second generation iPhone -- officially unveiled this week by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and dubbed the iPhone 3G -- is slated to hit the shelves of Apple and AT&T stores across the US (and in 21 other nations) on July 11. The iPhone 3G will sport both cosmetic and serious under-the-hood upgrades from the current model and will feature a new, lower purchase price. It will also ship with the iPhone 2.0 firmware, offering access to a host of new operating system features, most notably the ability to install third-party applications using the App Store.

WeFi is hoping to do for Wi-Fi connectivity what Facebook has done for social networking.

The Web has been in 2.0 mode for a while now, and in-car tech is starting to follow suit.

Within minutes of a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that hit the San Francisco Bay Area, the number of mobile phone calls on the Verizon Wireless network skyrocketed.

Mobile phones will not cause cancer or slow the brain, according to a recently published six-year study, but the jury is not out.

Radio is cool and exciting because it allows us to send voice and broadband data through the air. Advances in radio technology have resulted in more throughput, greater reliability and better range. And we've made advances across the board, in basic technologies, radio chip architecture and fabrication, packaging, power consumption, antennas, protocols and software.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) today declared protection zones around two submarine telecommunications cables of national significance off the NSW coast.

First there was the Do-it-Yourself home improvement boom driven by a bullish real estate market, and now it's the build your own optical transmission system.

RatePoint on Monday plans to introduce a service that will allow residents of the Second Life online society to rate one another. The ratings promise to help them make better decisions about choosing who to socialize or do business with in the virtual world, the vendor said.

Someday soon, you might find yourself behind the steering wheel of your car and you'll want to dial your phone, find out where the nearest Starbucks is, change the music you are listening to and adjust your heat or air conditioning. And you will be able to do all of this with nothing but the power of your own voice.

Shoppers at a Tokyo department store have a chance to get help with their make-up as part of a three week-long test of RFID technology that began on Friday.