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The world’s leading mobile phone maker Nokia is thinking about ‘injecting’ an ID chip in its phones not dissimilar to the microchips now commonly used to permanently identify pet cats and dogs.
Illegal broadcasting in the United Kingdom continues to attract tough action by the regulator Ofcom who in its latest Enforcement Report paints a picture of criminality far beyond being an unauthorise
The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been exposed for its lack of transparency in that it excluded details from its own technical studies that went against its position in sup
The search continues for signals coming from extra terrestrial (ET) civilisations, but scientists do not hold much hope of tuning into intelligence from space soon, if ever.
The International Reply Coupon is that it can be exchanged for one of more stamps for minimum postage for an airmail letter up to 20 grams making it very useful to radio amateurs for QSLing.
The Australian government’s research arm, the CSIRO, has taken 14 major companies to court and won reaffirming its intellectual property rights for the technology behind wireless networks.
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The Radio Society of Great Britain has scored good coverage about the emergency communications role of Amateur Radio on the BBC World Service’s ‘New Hour’ program.
On Easter Thursday vandals cut a vital fibre-optic cable bringing down telephone services, mobile phone and internet services in San Francisco’s South Bay Area of California.
The birthday of wireless pioneer Guglielmo Marconi is celebrated each year on the amateur radio bands in an event called International Marconi Day.
