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Surveillance State: Lavabit, Silent Circle, Groklaw Cease Their Services - Who's Next? 26 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm
Three months into Edward Snowden's revelations of PRISM and other government programs to monitor pretty much everything that flows through the Internet today and the news still get worse by the day. N...
Were There Computer Learning Kits for Teenagers In Your Country? 25 Aug 2013 | 01:47 pm
There's one thing I have been wondering about while enjoying my recent trips back in time to the 1980's and computer learning kits: Were there similar kits in other countries around the globe tailored...
How To Assign Special Characters To Keys In Ubuntu and Linux 24 Aug 2013 | 11:27 am
Having friends and business partners around the world I frequently type texts in different languages and so far always struggled with non-standard Roman characters on my German keyboard. At some point...
Learning How Computers Work - Comparing Approaches of the 1980s 23 Aug 2013 | 10:42 am
In a previous post I've been musing about how in the 1980s, microcomputer learning kits appeared on the market to teach kids and adults how computers work. Note that this is different from learning ho...
I Just Noticed We Had 40 MHz LTE Channels in Europe, Counting the American Way 21 Aug 2013 | 12:32 am
So far, pretty much everyone in the industry measured channel bandwidths in what either the downlink or the uplink channel provides. A UMTS channel thus always had a bandwidth of 5 MHz despite twice t...
Raising the Shields - Part 7: Auto-Delete Cookies When The Browser Closes 18 Aug 2013 | 10:39 am
Most users today are very happy that web services recognize them when they come back to use a service over many weeks or even months as they don't have to identify themselves each time they visit a si...
Bluetooth Revival With PC Connectivity 17 Aug 2013 | 02:20 am
Over the years my use of Bluetooth for various purposes has significantly diminished. With the advent of Wi-Fi tethering that I wished for back in 2006 when the first phones with Wi-Fi connectivity we...
Probing Layer 1 - Part 5: DVB-T Signals 14 Aug 2013 | 10:48 am
Venturing down a bit on the frequency scale I've now also taken a closer look at DVB-T television signals with my DVB-T USB receiver stick and SDR-Sharp. The image on the left shows the right edge of ...
The New Nexus 7 Tablet (2013) Supports AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile LTE In One Device 12 Aug 2013 | 10:24 am
While in Europe, GSM, UMTS and LTE are used by all network operators, the US wireless landscape has always been much more diverse. This meant and still means that there always had and have to be sever...
40% of UMTS Band 1 is Unused 10 Aug 2013 | 03:31 pm
While in the US, network operators were perhaps struggling with the amount of spectrum they had for their 3G services and thus rushed to jump onto the LTE bandwagon, Europe continues to enjoy very goo...
