Tim Newton of Neul–the company running the radio side of the white-space trials in the U.K.’s Bute and Cambridge–detailed the engineering challenges of the task when he spoke at the Future of Wireless conference in late June. His thesis (PDF)–that the radio world white-space systems inhabit is very different to that of classic wireless engineering, …

Certification testing of Honeywell Phase 3 Display Units on Boeing 737NG aircraft revealed the potential for interference from Wi-Fi for those specific displays. Honeywell emphasizes that there have been “no blanking incidents of in-service aircraft with the Wi-Fi system installed,” according to the publication Flight Global. Boeing There’s nothing the world likes more than a good radiation scare. Mobile phone …

The HTC Desire HD is many things. It’s a fabulous phone, which means you can talk to any one of 4 billion people almost anywhere you go on the planet. No prince, king or emperor before the 21st century, no angel of legend or wizard of myth, could dream of such a thing. How cool is that? It plays music …

Philips is pleased with itself. It’s been ten years since it displayed the first prototype 42-inch gas plasma TV, which was just 100mm thick so could be “hung on the wall like a painting”. At last, say our Dutch friends, the TV has been liberated from the corner of the room. Reality was never Philips’ strong point. It seems to …

There’s good news coming for digital telly fans who’ve resisted the temptations of Sky and cable. Freeview Playback — a new standard for hard disk personal video recorders — will be here by the autumn. It will let viewers record an entire TV series at the touch of a single button, will work with programmes that are late or run …

By Sunday evening, the weekend is wearing off. Usually. Last Sunday, I had my doubts: gently dozing through The Simpsons‘ closing credits, I heard a snatch of conversation so bizarre it had to have been a hallucination. Fortunately for those with reality issues, new technology now exists to help work out which side of the blood-brain barrier such voices originate. …

The wireless has come a long way since the days of cat’s whiskers, Bakelite headphones and aerials that looked like your gran’s washing line. The good old BBC is still up there with the leaders, too; its Listen Again service means you can get a blast of a Mozart symphony or a reading from Moyles’ Profanisaurus up to seven days …

Fancy some high-definition TV but don’t have satellite or cable? Got a PC and a digital TV card? Then you may care to know that BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five are running trial transmissions on the Freeview system, and that while the broadcasts are nominally restricted to a few hand-picked technotesters there’s nothing stopping you from eavesdropping. Except for …