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FRIDAY — APRIL 20, 2012 — ISSUE NO. 503

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Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging,

Greetings from Southern Illinois. As I mentioned last week, everything around here is growing. That means lots of yard and garden work. Surprisingly, I received more comments, about my tomato garden last week, than any other topic. One reader — Stuart Cox — sent in photos of his garden in Florida, and my friend Rick McMichael of Preferred Wireless saw my “secret” of using Miracle-Gro® Tomato Plant Food.

Ron Mercer confessed to not having his tomato plants out yet. He just returned from visiting his son Dean in California who is recuperating from surgery. [Hang in there Deano.]

There is lots of interesting news this week so I will skip my usual editorial.

Please note, Phil Leavitt of Leavitt Communications has reduced the price of up to 1,250 new Bravo 501 900 MHz FLEX numeric-display pagers to $8.00 each. Minimum order, 100 pieces. His ad follows below.

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Critical Messaging Association Appoints New Officers, Makes Awards and Sets the Stage for International Partnership at Annual Convention

Wilmington, NC (April 6, 2012) — The Critical Messaging Convention, formerly called the Global Paging Conference, was held March 27–29 in Austin, Texas. In addition to Critical Messaging Association (CMA) members, close to one-third of those attending the 2012 convention were from the European Mobile Messaging Association (EMMA). Industry representatives from Central America and the Middle East were also in attendance.

“As the environment for critical messaging has evolved over the past few years, industry leaders in the U.S., Europe and other countries have come together to recognize powerful, shared goals,” said EMMA Chairman Derek Banner. “The opportunity to learn and collaborate with international colleagues is invaluable. EMMA is working closely with CMA to build on this momentum and create a global association that can focus on importance of critical messaging within the worldwide communications industry.”

While at the Critical Messaging Convention, Banner spoke to the CMA membership about the upcoming Critical Messaging Summit being held September 11-13, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden. More information on EMMA and the conference is available at www.emmainfo.org

New CMA President and Vice President Named
During the convention, Ted McNaught was named CMA President and Jim Nelson was named CMA Vice President. McNaught is President and COO of Critical Alert Systems, a provider of critical messaging and nurse call technology solutions to more than 500 hospitals nationwide. Nelson is Chairman, President and CEO of Prism Systems International, a market leader in paging and centralized message management systems for healthcare organizations. Both men have long histories with the CMA and as leaders in the industry.

McNaught was one of the association’s founders in 2002 when it was established as the American Association of Paging Carriers (AAPC). He has served on the Board of Directors since 2002, and was the first AAPC President in 2005. Additionally, McNaught is a member of the Enterprise Wireless Association (EWA) Board of Directors.

Nelson was appointed to the Board of Directors of AAPC and EMMA in 2008, and was elected as Vice-Chair of the Paging Technical Committee in the same year. Nelson is also on the planning committees for the EWA, EMMA and Global Paging Convention (GPC).

2012 Global Industry Recognition Award
Vic Jensen, Director of Unication USA, received the 2012 Global Industry Recognition Award that recognizes professionals who have made significant contributions to the industry. The CMA and EMMA board selects the recipient from a list of international nominees. Jensen was with Motorola for 31 years, where he was responsible for the development, marketing and support for the company’s paging infrastructure and FLEX/ReFLEX paging protocols. Products he brought to market are still being used today. He joined Unication in 2004 as a senior member of their technical staff. Additionally, Jensen has been an active member of the CMA as a Board Member and providing leadership for the Paging Technical Committee.

“It’s an exciting time for the Critical Messaging industry as we build on our unique position as the most reliable communications technology during disasters or crisis situations,” said CMA President Ted McNaught. “There’s tremendous innovation happening as critical messaging providers share best practices and collaborate with companies from industries and locations that were not even on our radar a few years ago. It’s this dynamic environment that CMA seeks to foster as we look forward.”

About the Critical Messaging Association
Founded in 2002, the Critical Messaging Association is the only U.S. trade group for companies that provide critical messaging and paging products and services. Emergency healthcare professionals, first responders and public safety personnel — who require reliable, fast communications during a crisis or disaster — have been the core critical messaging users since the early 1960s. More information is available at www.criticalmessagingassociation.org .

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Call2Park is a coin-less payment system that can be added to Multi-Space Payment Stations to permit vehicle parking fees to be paid via a simple cell phone call as an alternative to the use of cash, credit cards or tokens. Tens of thousands of these Multi-Space Payment Kiosks are currently operational in major cities and this number is certain to grow exponentially over the next several years.

The designers of the Call2Park system are now seeking partners to share in the opportunity presented by this new application. For more details contact Ron Mercer at WirelessPlannerRon@gmail.com or by telephone at 631-266-2604.

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Warning System for Baden-Württemberg’s Schools

e*Message Delivers Alerting in Emergency Conditions

16 April, 2012. Baden-Württemberg is introducing a new alarm and information system to improve security in the state schools. In the future, emergency warning messages will be transmitted over a wireless paging network operated by the e*Message Group.

pager All schools run by the state of Baden-Württemberg are currently being outfitted with pagers, according to the State Ministry of Culture in Stuttgart. In critical situations, the ministry’s emergency command staff, in cooperation with the police command centre, can address the pagers to transmit warning messages to school directors quickly.

The paging network of the Berlin-based e*Message Group, which transmits the warning messages, features nationwide coverage and is operated primarily for professional applications. The paging network is independent of public mobile telephone and other telecommunication networks. e*Message is supplying both the pagers and the network service to the State of Baden-Württemberg. The pagers are small, portable devices configured exclusively to receive warning messages from the state’s emergency command staff.

“We and the municipalities want to improve our schoolchildren’s safety, especially in crisis situations,” said Minister of Culture Gabriele Warminski-Leitheusser. The ministry acted on a recommendation of the expert commission on school shootings and a special committee of the state legislature. e*Message, the operator of professional alerting networks in Germany and France, supports the project with its high-availability alerting network.

Other states, districts and cities are also working on appropriate readiness measures to improve safety in schools.

e*Message offers emergency warning services for government agencies and companies, and since 2004 has been the only network operator connected to the federal government’s satellite-based warning system, SatWaS.

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e*Message is the market-leading paging network operator in continental Europe, with subsidiaries in Germany and France. e*Message’s alerting (e*BOS, e*Cityruf) and data broadcast services (e*Warn, e*Nergy, e*Skyper, e*Broker) are used by hundreds of thousands of individuals, government agencies, institutions and renowned companies. e*Message was founded and acquired the paging operations of Deutsche Telekom AG and France Télécom in 2000, and has been developing them ever since. The group’s head offices are in Berlin and Paris.

Since 2005 e*Message has also been operating e*Dispatch, a powerful trunked radio network for voice and data in the Berlin–Brandenburg region.

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CTIA-The Wireless Association® Semi-Annual Survey Shows Significant Demand by Americans for Wireless Broadband

Posted April 13, 2012

Americans used more than 123 percent more wireless data traffic in 2011 than 2010

WASHINGTON, April 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/— The amount of wireless data transmitted by Americans continues to increase at an impressive rate, as the CTIA-The Wireless Association® semi-annual survey revealed, which was released today. The annual U.S. wireless data traffic grew 123 percent from 2010 (388 billion megabytes) to 2011 (866.7 billion megabytes). According to the survey, there was a 43 percent increase in the number of active smartphones and wireless-enabled PDAs in 2011 (111.5 million) compared with 2010 (78.2 million). With almost 95 percent of these devices capable of transmitting wireless data, Americans' voracious appetite for anywhere and anytime mobile access is why the wireless industry needs more spectrum.

To put the wireless data traffic of 2010 compared with 2011 into perspective, if you were walking and listening to five songs per mile and each song lasted for four minutes:

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  • In 2010, you would walk 77,601,961,033 miles, or the equivalent of 3,116,419 times around the world for 2,952,890 years and listen to 97 billion songs.
  • In 2011, you would walk 173,364,056,929 miles, or the equivalent of 6,962,132 times around the world for 6,596,806 years and listen to 216.7 billion songs.

In order to handle Americans' demand for wireless data, mobile providers continued to make significant investments in their infrastructure, from upgrading networks from 3G to 4G to increasing the number of cell sites to improve coverage and capacity. In 2011, they reported $25.3 billion in capital expenditures, which was up 2 percent from 2010. Since 2001, wireless providers invested $246 billion in capital expenditures, so they can meet consumers' demands for wireless access anytime and anywhere. This number does not include the billions that wireless companies paid the U.S. government to license spectrum. Also important to meeting demand was the 2009 FCC shot clock ruling that required local governments to make decisions on tower siting proposals within specific timeframes. 2011 was the largest annual increase of operational cell sites with 283,385 at year-end, which was 30,299 more than 2010.

The 12-month survey results for 2011 are:

  • Wireless subscriber connections: 331.6 million (104.6 percent penetration); Dec. 2010: 311 million (7 percent increase)
  • Wireless network data traffic: 866.7 billion megabytes; Dec. 2010: 388 billion megabytes (123 percent increase)
  • Active smartphones and wireless-enabled PDAs: 111.5 million; Dec. 2010: 78.2 million (43 percent increase)
  • Number of active data-capable devices: 295.1 million; Dec. 2010: 270.5 million (9 percent increase)
  • Wireless-enabled tablets, laptops and modems: 20.2 million; Dec. 2010: 13.6 million (49 percent increase)
  • Minutes of Use (MOU): 2.296 trillion; Dec. 2010: 2.241 trillion (2 percent increase)
  • SMS sent and received: 2.304 trillion; Dec. 2010: 2.052 trillion (12 percent increase)
  • MMS sent and received: 52.8 billion; Dec. 2010: 56.6 billion
  • Average local monthly wireless bill (includes voice and data service): $47.00; Dec. 2010: $47.21

"Americans' love for mobile products and services continue to grow. Our survey shows yet again that we are choosing to have more than one wireless device, including smartphones, tablets and e-readers, which is why the wireless penetration rate is almost 105 percent. Yet as the President, bipartisan members of Congress, FCC Chairman and Commissioners and other policymakers have repeatedly advocated, the U.S. wireless industry must have access to more spectrum so we can continue to improve our nation's economy and meet our consumers' demands. While the spectrum identified in the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation was a great start, there is much more work to be done," said Steve Largent, President and CEO of CTIA. "We look forward to working with all of the interested parties to quickly bring more spectrum to auction so our members may purchase it, continue to invest and create jobs and ensure wireless U.S. consumers remain enjoying the world's best wireless products and services."

To see a summary of the report or to purchase the full report from the CTIA Research eStore, please visit: http://www.ctia.org/advocacy/research/index.cfm/AID/10316 .

CTIA-The Wireless Association® ( www.ctia.org ) is an international organization representing the wireless communications industry. Membership in the association includes wireless carriers and their suppliers, as well as providers and manufacturers of wireless data services and products. CTIA advocates on behalf of its members at all levels of government. The association also coordinates the industry's voluntary best practices and initiatives, and sponsors the industry's leading wireless trade shows. CTIA was founded in 1984 and is based in Washington, D.C.

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How Nokia can beat the iPhone

Posted on April 16, 2012 — 11:15 by Rob Enderle

Despite a number of initial teething problems, Nokia's Lumia 900 may be the closest a Windows Phone 7 device has ever come to beating Apple's wildly popular iPhone.

Although the handset is selling rather well, I doubt it is giving Tim Cook many sleepless nights; rather, he is getting those from the US Department of Justice. However, over the years many other leading products have been successfully overtaken.

Enderle Remember, Apple displaced the Walkman, RIM displaced the Palm PDA, which itself was displaced by the iPhone. Plus, Nintendo was displaced by Sony who was displaced by Nintendo who was displaced by the Xbox.

In every case the dominant player had similar advantages to Apple in that they clearly were earning more money, had far more content, and a larger installed base. And, I expect, each thought they were equally unbeatable.

Nokia and Microsoft are clearly two industry heavyweights with the resources to beat Apple. The obvious challenge? Strategy, execution and timing.

The Stumble

Before we begin, I should point out that many of the above-mentioned displacements were helped by the dominant vendor stumbling. Sony tried MP3 players — which in many ways — were sleeker than the rather clunky first iPod. But Sony, even though it actually owned a massive number of music titles, was so worried about piracy that it wrapped the players with the ugliest DRM I’ve ever seen and rendered them practically unusable. In contrast, Apple focused on ease of use and capacity, essentially stealing the market. Still, Cupertino likely wouldn't have done as well had Sony gotten its act together before Apple.

Similarly, Sony lost the market with the PlayStation by trying to use its gaming dominance to force their Blu-ray platform to beat the more cost effective HD-DVD standard. The result? A system that was estimated to cost (that’s cost to build) over $1,000 at launch in a market that had generally rejected a gaming system selling over $300 at retail. Some estimates had the Japanese-based corporation losing more than $400 per system. Unsurprisingly, even Sony couldn't afford that kind of loss, and so opened the door for the far more reasonably priced Wii and Xbox wins.

As noted above, RIM beat Palm on the market turn from PDAs to smartphones. RIM used the lever of a two way pager as a feature to eclipse the PALM PDA — then built the better smartphone eco-system for business. Subsequently, RIM missed the point that users, rather than companies, bought most phones and Apple took the market from RIM because RIM stayed with a company approach and then tried to chase Apple.

In short, it is less likely that any of the above-mentioned dominant companies would have lost the market had they stayed focused and not screwed up. Really, Sony remains the most telling, simply because it had the stronger brand and was vastly more powerful — collectively — than its competitors, but simply failed to step up and defend its position.

Of course, betting on Apple stumbling, at least under Jobs, was a fool’s bet. However, Tim Cook’s Apple is having issues that, like the price fixing charge from the DOJ, which indicate the new Apple is vastly different than the company overseen by Steve Jobs.

Beating the iPhone

To beat Apple's iPhone, competitors need a device that is unique, simple to communicate (market) and of high value to the buyer. As you may recall, the Xbox was largely initially driven by the game Halo, iPod by the ease of ripping and populating music, the Blackberry by two-way paging, and the iPhone by its elegant simplicity. In fact, if you think about it, Apple’s sustaining feature isn’t really a feature at all, but rather a process that conveys a message of elegant simplicity which appears to resonate well with its brand.

While there may be numerous uses for a new smartphone, I find that I've been using mine as a super-remote. I’ve tried out Qualcomm’s Skifta, Microsoft’s Sync, and Aha Radio — with each offering advantages and disadvantages. Unfortunately Skifta, a DLNA technology, doesn’t work on Windows Phones or in cars, Aha doesn’t work on Windows Phones, most cars, receivers or TVs. And while Sync does work on Windows Phones it also works on Apple and Android devices but only some cars (mostly Ford), no aftermarket, and not in the home at all. It strikes me that if you could create an app that was uniquely useful like Skifta, Aha Radio, or Sync but worked on most all devices you could have an iPod like platform.

However, given Cupertino's recent price fixing problems, the company is likely limited in the types of negotiations it can participate in that would allow an Apple device to achieve such broad utility and capabilities. Meanwhile, Google continues to think that marketing Android is someone else’s job.

Wrapping Up: The Experience Goal

Look at two Aha Radio Receivers — the Kenwood DNX-9990HD and the new Pioneer APPRADIO lineup. Your smartphone and tablet apps display and execute on the receivers, your connected radio stations come with you into the car, and even your navigation experience is improved. Taken to the next level, imagine all of your custom media content, settings, navigation locations, contacts, email, and apps moving from car to car with you, along with your tablet or your phone.

At some future point, even your seat settings, temperature settings, and other unique aspects of your current car could travel with you on a phone or tablet, and even into the home. You could begin listening to a song or watch a movie on a plane, move to the back seat (hopefully) of your car or Taxi on the drive to your hotel and finish up on your hotel TV.

To me, such as scenario would be as compelling as any of the market models if it was easy to use, complete, and well marketed. Microsoft and Qualcomm both have core technology that could do this and Aha could be acquired. But short of something like this I doubt, even if Apple stumbles, any one company will be able to displace them. Competitors need a hook big enough to catch a market, but it could be done and likely will be done eventually - it's just a question of who will do it.

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FCC Will Allow Text-to-Speech Emergency Alerts

Revises Order to Remove Prohibition on TTS, But Makes it Voluntary

Mike Reynolds — Multichannel News, 4/19/2012 4:10:00 PM

The Federal Communications Commission has decided to defer, rather than prohibit, converting emergency alerts from text to speech, a prohibition in its initial EAS order.

In an order released Thursday, the FCC amended its Jan. 10 order on specifying how emergency alert system (EAS) participants, which include broadcasters and cable operators, must receive Common Alert Protocol (CAP) messages.

The original order had not allowed text-to-speech conversions of those CAP messages because, for one reason, the accuracy and reliability had not been established, said the FCC. It also wasn't convinced the obligation should be on the receiver, rather than the transmitter of the message to do that conversion.

But FEMA, for one, objected, saying that by prohibiting TTS it would limit its development. In addition, it said, not allowing TTS conversions of alerts "could possibly disrupt dissemination of National Weather Service alerts, delay retrieval of referenced audio files in alerts, and impact the ability of jurisdictions with limited resources, or those with certain, already implemented CAP alerting capabilities, to issue CAP-formatted alerts."

As a result, the FCC has decided to allow TTS, but make it optional, effective immediately upon publication in the Federal Register, which usually takes a week or so.

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IBM speeds push for 500-mile EV battery

Big Blue signs on partners for its Battery 500 Project to design an "air-breathing" lithium air battery that would create a leap in energy density.

by Martin LaMonica April 20, 2012 5:52 AM PDT

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An air-breathing battery: the basic chemistry of a lithium air battery is to combine oxygen from the air with lithium ions to create lithium peroxide and the reverse reaction during charge and discharge.
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Ten years from now, range anxiety for electric cars may be a thing of the past if IBM researchers pull it off.

The computing giant today announced two partners for a project aimed at building a lithium air battery able to propel an electric car 500 miles. Scientists from Asahi Kasei and Central Glass with expertise in membranes and electrolyte chemistries will join IBM researchers on the initiative.

Called the Battery 500 Project, the goal is to design an "air-breathing" battery that will use oxygen from the air to drive a new type of battery chemical reaction and, in the process, deliver a big jump in EV range potential. The company hopes to have a working demonstration by the end of next year.

The fact that IBM Research has expanded the research team with these two companies and other unnamed ones is a sign that the ambitious effort is on the right track, said Winfried Wilcke, principal investigator at IBM Research who started the project in 2009.

Materials scientists for years have been pursuing lithium air batteries, which use oxygen from the air to react with lithium ions to discharge and charge electric energy. It still remains in the realm of research but Wilcke said that IBM has made progress understanding the basic chemistry and made important decisions on how a working battery would be engineered.

"Unlike what we originally thought, we know we have a really good electrochemical reaction. The problems now are secondary," he said. "There are still tremendous engineering challenges ahead so there's no hope of it happening this decade."

The basic target of the research is to build a battery that would give an average-size family electric car a 500 miles range. The lithium ion batteries in the Nissan Leaf and Ford Focus Electric allow for between roughly 75 and 100 miles of range. The high end edition of Tesla Motors' Model S will have an option for up to 300 miles of range.

A lithium air battery would use a different chemical reaction inside the battery during charge and discharge from today's lithium ion batteries. Using supercomputer simulations, IBM researchers found that new active components, namely the electrolytes, need to be different, Wilcke said.

The approach IBM is pursuing now would actually use two electrolytes, with one on the anode side and another on the cathode side. This makes membranes that allow only the desired electrons to flow through an important piece of the research.

For the most part, today's lithium ion batteries supply ample power to accelerate a car forward but the primary technical barriers are cost and energy density, or the amount of stored energy per volume. Several companies are developing enhancements to lithium ion battery components which promise to improve the performance in the years ahead.

IBM Research's approach is not an incremental improvement but a fundamentally different chemistry, which makes the venture high risk and one which requires years of consistent work. Wilcke, though, is feeling good about the progress to date and said the lithium air work could have benefits for other types of batteries.

"What I'm not certain about is what the cost will be. It's just too early and it depends on all kinds of different things," he said. "The overall trend is that I'm feeling more optimistic as time goes by, rather than less."

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Could Apple finally make full use of Liquidmetal in the construction of its next iPhone?

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A new rumor sees the return of talk that Apple could use Liquidmetal in the construction of its next iPhone.

If a report from Korean source ETNews is to be believed, the next-generation Apple iPhone will use Liquidmetal in its construction, a material for which the company acquired a worldwide usage license back in 2010, but until now hasn't fully exploited.

Before the launch of the iPhone 4S, rumors were flying that the fifth-generation iPhone would have a curvy chassis made from metal, but although Liquidmetal was mentioned, aluminum was considered more likely at the time.

Going back even further we find talk of Apple using Liquidmetal to build tiny fuel cells to power future devices, after a patent appeared linking the two together.

Despite all these rumors, Apple has so far only used Liquidmetal for its SIM removal tool found inside iPhone and some iPad packages. Could this finally be changing with the introduction of an all-new iPhone?

Why Liquidmetal?

For a start, Liquidmetal is a very marketable name, evoking thoughts of everything from Omega’s gorgeous Seamaster Planet Ocean watch to the Terminator T-1000; and cool names help sell gadgets.

Without going into the alloy’s complex structure, here’s why Apple — and Omega for the matter — want to use Liquidmetal to make its products. Like plastic but unlike some other metals, it’s easy to work with and can be molded into precise shapes, plus it’s lightweight, very strong and highly resistant to scratches, corrosion and long-term wear.

liquid metal In fact, according to a handy Liquidmetal Technologies chart, it’s almost twice as hard and strong as steel, and has three-times the strength-to-weight ratio too.

What would it look like?

The leak calls it a “surface smooth like liquid,” making it sound glossy rather than matte, and certainly if you look at an iPhone’s SIM removal tool, it has a beautiful chrome-like finish.

So perhaps an iPhone using a Liquidmetal chassis will have an iPod Touch-style rear panel, or be somewhere in-between that and the original iPhone.

Another attractive property of Liquidmetal is it’s ability to be heat-formed into different shapes, so instead of the flat surfaces found on the iPhone 4 and 4S, a curved or tapered rear panel could really be introduced this time.

Drawbacks?

Liquidmetal is still something of an unknown quantity when it comes to mainstream consumer electronics, especially when used in such a prominent way as is being suggested here.

Luxury phone manufacturer Vertu was the first to use Liquidmetal on a phone, when it introduced its Ascent series handset way back in 2004, but it was only a small part of the $4500 device.

Around the same time, SanDisk used it to improve its Cruzer Titanium flash drive’s chances of survival in the event it was run over or otherwise crushed, as the Liquidmetal casing was said to be able to resist 2000 pounds of weight before giving in. But it was only 2-inches long.

That said, pushing the envelope when it comes to design and using new materials has never bothered Apple, and neither has the high price of doing so.

Will they, won’t they?

As we’ve already mentioned, rumors of Apple using Liquidmetal to make an iPhone chassis have been around for some time, making this just another entry on an ever-growing list.

Therefore it should be treated as just another possibility, and nothing more at this stage.

Using a high-tech material to further separate its new model from the competition sounds possible though, and it’s something Samsung could also try with its Galaxy S III phone.

The ETNews source states Apple is expected to launch the next iPhone during WWDC in June, while others consider a September/October date to be more likely.

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9:00 AM - April 20, 2012 - By Douglas Perry - Source : UT Dallas

Terahertz technologies are being developed to create imaging devices that can see through objects.

Kenneth Back in 1998, Sony accidentally sold about 700,000 camcorders with lenses that use IR light to achieve a certain x-ray capability that can "see" through dark, thin clothing. While a similar feature never surfaced on the video camera and still camera market again, researchers believe they can go a step further and build imaging devices that are leverage terahertz electromagnetic waves to construct images.

Just like microwaves can be used for voice and data communication, like infrared waves can be used for night vision devices, terahertz waves can penetrate solid objects and identify objects behind them. Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) claim that terahertz technology can be built it a CMOS chip that can be integrated into devices such as cell phones. However, the goal of such a product is not so much to achieve a voyeur-ish reputation as the Sony camcorder did.

The scientists have medical as well as emergency applications in mind. For example, the chip could be used to detect cancer tumors, or analyze air quality. To make sure that there are no privacy invasions, the chip in development will be limited to a range of four inches. However, if the technology works as promised, there is little reason to believe that products with greater ranges will be made available, for example for military applications. The UT Dallas scientists claim that the technology could also be used to accelerate data transmissions.

The UT Dallas team said that it is now planning to build an entire working imaging system based on its CMOS terahertz system.

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Selected portions of the BloostonLaw Telecom Update, a newsletter from the Law Offices of Blooston, Mordkofsky, Dickens, Duffy & Prendergast, LLP are reproduced in this section with the firm's permission.

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CTIA SURVEY SHOWS CONTINUING INCREASE IN WIRELESS DATA TRAFFIC: CTIA-The Wireless Association has released its semi-annual survey, showing that annual U.S. wireless data traffic grew 123 percent from 2010 (388 billion megabytes) to 2011 (866.7 billion megabytes). According to the survey, there was a 43 percent increase in the number of active smartphones and wireless-enabled PDAs in 2011 (111.5 million) compared with 2010 (78.2 million). With almost 95 percent of these devices capable of transmitting wireless data, Americans’ voracious appetite for anywhere and anytime mobile access to data is why the wireless industry needs more spectrum.

To put the wireless data traffic of 2010 compared with 2011 into perspective, if you were walking and listening to five songs per mile and each song lasted for four minutes, CTIA said:

  • In 2010, you would walk 77,601,961,033 miles, or the equivalent of 3,116,419 times around the world for 2,952,890 years and listen to 97 billion songs.
  • In 2011, you would walk 173,364,056,929 miles, or the equivalent of 6,962,132 times around the world for 6,596,806 years and listen to 216.7 billion songs.

[Note: we are not aware of anybody having attempted these feats]

In order to handle Americans’ demand for wireless data, mobile providers continued to make significant investments in their infrastructure, from upgrading networks from 3G to 4G to increasing the number of cell sites to improving coverage and capacity. In 2011, they reported $25.3 billion in capital expenditures, which was up 2 per-cent from 2010. Since 2001, wireless providers invested $246 billion in capital expenditures, so they can meet consumers’ demands for wireless access anytime and anywhere. This number does not include the billions that wireless companies paid the U.S. government to obtain spectrum licenses. Also important to meeting demand was the 2009 FCC shot clock ruling that required local governments to make decisions on tower siting proposals within specific timeframes. 2011 was the largest annual increase of operational cell sites with 283,385 at year-end, which was 30,299 more than 2010.

The 12-month survey results for 2011 are:

  • Wireless subscriber connections: 331.6 million (104.6 percent penetration); Dec. 2010: 311 million (7 percent increase).
  • Wireless network data traffic: 866.7 billion megabytes; Dec. 2010: 388 billion megabytes (123 percent increase).
  • Active smartphones and wireless-enabled PDAs: 111.5 million; Dec. 2010: 78.2 million (43 percent increase).
  • Number of active data-capable devices: 295.1 million; Dec. 2010: 270.5 million (9 percent increase).
  • Wireless-enabled tablets, laptops and modems: 20.2 million; Dec. 2010: 13.6 million (49 percent increase).
  • Minutes of Use (MOU): 2.296 trillion; Dec. 2010: 2.241 trillion (2 percent increase)
  • SMS sent and received: 2.304 trillion; Dec. 2010: 2.052 trillion (12 percent increase).
  • MMS sent and received: 52.8 billion; Dec. 2010: 56.6 billion.
  • Average local monthly wireless bill (includes voice and data service): $47.00; Dec. 2010: $47.21.

“Americans’ love for mobile products and services continue to grow, CTIA said. It added that the survey shows yet again that people are choosing to have more than one wireless device, including smartphones, tablets and e-readers, which is why the wireless penetration rate is almost 105 percent.

Source: BloostonLaw Telecom Update Vol. 15, No. 15 April 18, 2012

 

This newsletter is not intended to provide legal advice. Those interested in more information should contact the firm. For additional information, contact Hal Mordkofsky at 202-828-5520 or halmor@bloostonlaw.com

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Page last updated on: Sunday, April 15, 2012

Amateur radio operator Frank Conrad 8XK established the concept of radio broadcasting.

Frank first became interested in radio in 1912 when, in order to settle a bet on the accuracy of a watch, he built a radio in order to hear time signals from the Arlington, Virginia Naval Observatory.

He then constructed, in his garage, a new transmitter, licensed in 1916 as 8XK, whose signal could be heard throughout the Pittsburgh area.

In response to popular demand, Frank began broadcasting for two hours each Wednesday and Saturday night.

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From: Stuart Cox cmajor@mindspring.com
Subject: Tomatoes
Date: April 16, 2012 7:45:05 AM CDT
To: Brad Dye

Hello Brad:

I had to chuckle at your comment about things eating your tomatoes.  We had the same issue in our first crop this year here in south FL, so I made my wife an “IVF” (Impregnable Vegetable Fortress), pictures attached ;-)

Hopefully it’s enough to keep the raccoons, possums, rats, or whatever from making off with our veges.

(I’m not really in the paging biz anymore; worked on ReFLEX-based Pagewriter for Moto back in the 90s, but I still enjoy reading your newsletter occasionally, nice to see things still happening in “Critical Messaging.”)

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Stuart Cox

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