Archive for August, 2009

Can GPS help prevent another missing child?

August 31, 09 by CNET News.com - Wireless
Stranger abductions are rare, but they're every parent's nightmare. GPS and cellular technology can help, but only if the device is turned on and getting a signal.

Is AT&T losing its grip on the iPhone?

August 31, 09 by CNET News.com - Wireless
A financial analyst predicts that AT&T's exclusive deal to offer the iPhone in the U.S. could be finished within the year, which will likely mean bad news for AT&T.

Photos: Turning food waste into energy

August 31, 09 by CNET News.com - Wireless
With grants from the EPA, innovative techniques are turning food waste into energy to power this San Francisco Bay Area wastewater treatment facility.

LA fires threaten cell phone, broadcast towers

August 31, 09 by CNET News.com - Wireless
Southern California blaze poses risk to Mount Wilson Observatory and nearby towers that provide cell phone service, along with TV and radio broadcasts.

Peter Mandelson in talks to boost UK’s fast broadband access

August 31, 09 by David Goldstein

The bosses of the UK’s five mobile phone networks have been summoned to a meeting by Lord Mandelson, as he attempts to salvage the government’s ambition that everyone in the country will be able to get fast broadband internet access by 2012.

The meeting on Tuesday is the sec...