Embedding NFC payment schemes in mobile phones is still a way off. In the meantime, E&T finds plenty of applications for these short-range radio tags.
Optical interconnect technologies are moving into the heart of the supercomputer.
Digital film-making means managing vast streams of data. E&T finds out how movie makers are coping.
Mobile networks that optimise themselves could save operators money, E&T investigates.
Elastic antennas could make wearable electronics more comfortable, and enable cognitive radios, E&T explains.
World Cup coverage will showcase the terrestrial high-definition broadcast standard DVB-T2, according to E&T.
Tuneable lasers, wavelength selective switches and reconfigurable add-drop multiplexers are all helping to make optical networks more flexible, says E&T.
Mexico's thriving communications industry has made Carlos Slim the world's richest man.
Ten years ago, Brazil became the first country to hold fully electronic national elections. By October 2008, the South American nation was adding a new chapter to its rich history of electoral innovation by using broadband connections over mobile satellite links to transmit the poll results.
Social networks enabled by communications technology are providing powerful ways of delivering a political message, says E&T.
The Galileo, Glonass and Compass constellations will improve satellite navigation for everybody - if the receivers can be made to work.
As the old joke says, On the Internet no one knows you're a dog. But they can get a very good idea of where your kennel is, and perhaps even work out where you go for walkies.
The Star Trek communicator is on its way, says E&T.
Will the next generation of Internet access in the UK come through universal provision or a patchwork quilt of competing offerings that will leave some uncovered, wonders E&T.
On New Year’s Day it will be exactly 25 years since the UK got its first cellular network. E&T looks at the way that small decisions shaped the growth of the UK and global cellular networks.
Sir David Brown, former chairman of Motorola, talks to E&T about the past, present and future of the cellular industry.
From Abbey Road to prehistoric zoology, E&T videos span the engineering and technology community.
Could better aircraft communications help make aircraft black boxes obsolete?
The latest European security standards document adds coverage of topics including quantum key distribution; aeronautics, reconfigurable radio systems and IPv6, as well as developments in 3GPP.
How can IP based PBXs provide location information during emergency calls?
Network enabled trains integrate security, surveillance, passenger counting and infotainment technologies.
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