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Welcome Back Wishing a safe and happy weekend for all readers of The Wireless Messaging News. Donald Trump names Republican Ajit Pai to head FCC
In this Aug. 9, 2013, file photo, FCC commissioner Ajit Pai presents his dissent during a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing at the FCC in Washington. President Donald Trump has picked Pai, a fierce critic of the Obama-era "net neutrality" rules, to be chief regulator of the nation's airwaves and internet connections. In a statement Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, Pai said he was grateful to the president for his new role as the next chairman of the FCC. By Dave Boyer—The Washington Times—Tuesday, January 24, 2017 President Trump is naming Republican Ajit Pai, a foe of the Obama administration’s “net neutrality” rules, to become chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Pai, a Republican commissioner for the agency since 2012, confirmed the move in a statement Monday. “I am deeply grateful to the president of the United States for designating me the 34th Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission,” Mr. Pai said. “I look forward to working with the new administration, my colleagues at the commission, members of Congress, and the American public to bring the benefits of the digital age to all Americans.” He will replace Democratic Chairman Tom Wheeler, and Republicans will have a majority on the commission under Mr. Trump. Mr. Pai has opposed Mr. Wheeler’s net neutrality rules, saying the policy would lead to “utility-style regulation,” new taxes and less consumer choice. He is likely to review the policy. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden, Oregon Republican, and Communications and Technology subcommittee Chairwoman Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Republican, said Mr. Pai “has served with great distinction as a Commissioner over the past four and a half years, and has demonstrated that he is highly qualified to lead the commission.” Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, called the selection “a welcome sign of change that shows a long-overdue turnaround at the FCC is now ensured in our new administration.” “I look forward to working with him on solutions that will encourage investment, promote consumer choice, foster innovation and bring fresh thinking that will encourage creative disruption across the FCC’s broad jurisdiction,” Mr. Issa said. Ajit Varadaraj PaiFrom: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Early life and education Pai attended Harvard University where he participated in the Harvard Speech & Parliamentary Debate Society. He earned a B.A. with honors in Social Studies from Harvard in 1994 and a J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1997, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and won the Thomas J. Mulroy Prize. |
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New BlackBerry smartphone with Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 CPU coming soon?Posted: 26 Jan 2017, 20:50, by Cosmin V. We're definitely going to see the Mercury next month at Mobile World Congress (MWC) since BlackBerry said so. However, that might not be the only BlackBerry-branded smartphone that will be announced in the coming weeks. News about another BlackBerry smartphone that could be build by PT BB Merah Putih surfaced last week. The device goes by code named BBC100-1 and is likely to be aimed at emerging markets like Indonesia, India and the Philippines. PT BB Merah Putih is a joint venture that has signed a licensing agreement with BlackBerry, which will allow it to source, distribute and promote BlackBerry-branded smartphones running Android operating system. The said smartphone is suppose to pack a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 processor, paired with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory. A 5.5-inch display that supports HD (720p) resolution will be included too. On the back, the BBC100-1 will feature a decent 13-megapixel camera, while in the front there should be an 8-megapixel selfie camera. We've also learned the smartphone will be powered by a 3,000 mAh battery and will offer dual-SIM support. Since it will not be built and launched by TCL, we doubt we're going to see this mid-range BlackBerry-branded smartphone at MWC, but we don't rule out the possibility. |
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A ProblemThe Motorola Nucleus II Paging Base Station is a great paging transmitter. The Nucleus I, however, had some problems. One of the best features of this product was its modular construction. Most of the Nucleus' component parts were in plug-in modules that were field replaceable making maintenance much easier. One issue was (and still is) that two of the modules had to always be kept together. They are called the “matched pair.” Motorola used some tricks to keep people in the field from trying to match unmatched pairs, and force them to send SCM and Exciter modules back to the factory for calibrating them with precision laboratory equipment. The serial numbers have to match in the Nucleus programing software or you can't transmit. Specifically the 4-level alignment ID parameter contained in the SCM has to match the Exciter ID parameter. Even if someone could modify the programing software to “fudge” these parameters, that would not let them use unmatched modules effectively without recalibrating them to exact factory specifications. So now that there is no longer a Motorola factory laboratory to send them to, what do we do? I hope someone can help us resolve this serious problem for users of the Nucleus paging transmitter. Please let me know if you can help. [click here]
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Google Chrome Makes Reloads FasterBY MANISH SINGH, INDIA Don’t you find it annoying when Chrome takes an additional second or two to reload a web page you had visited only recently? Google does, too — and it is making things smoother. Google says refreshes on Chrome browser are now about 28 percent faster, adding that improvements should be visible on both mobile and desktop versions of its marquee browser. Explaining how it managed to cut short the time it takes to reload a page, Google said it is changing the way its browser handles what is known as "validation." Every time a user visits or revisits a page, Chrome requests hundreds of network requests for it. In the latest version of Chrome, likely v56, the browser only validates the main resource (things that it believes may have been changed and need to be validated). "The existing reload behavior usually solves broken pages, but stale content is inefficiently addressed by a regular reload, especially on mobile," Google’s Takashi Toyoshima wrote in a blog post. "This feature was originally designed in times when broken pages were quite common, so it was reasonable to address both use cases at once," he wrote, adding that it was no longer necessary for browsers to validate each and every element. For people like you and yours truly, it means not only will the pages reload faster, it will also result in lower data consumption and energy. Google has been hard at work with making Chrome faster and more secure in the recent weeks. The company announced this week that Chrome 56 will flag HTTP pages that collect credentials of banks and accounts as "not secure" in the address bar itself. |
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Science & Environment Claim made for hydrogen 'wonder material' By Jonathan Amos
Scientists in the US say they have at last managed to turn hydrogen into a state where it behaves like a metal. If that is true — and it is a controversial claim — it fulfills a more than 80-year quest to produce what many have said would be a wonder material. Theory suggests metallic hydrogen could be used to make zero-resistance electrical wiring and super-powerful rocket fuel, among many applications. Ranga Dias and Isaac Silvera are the Harvard researchers behind the work. They report their experiments in this week’s Science Magazine. “It's the first time solid metallic hydrogen has ever existed on Earth,” Prof Silvera told the BBC.
Their laboratory approach - as is common in this field of study - was to squeeze a cell containing a small sample of molecular hydrogen between two synthetic diamonds. In the Science paper, Dias and Silvera say this diamond anvil cell (DAC) achieved pressures up to 495 gigapascals. That is the equivalent of sitting under almost five million Earth atmospheres. The DAC was also chilled down to close to minus 270 Celsius.
The intention was to pack the atoms of hydrogen so close together that they formed a crystal lattice and started to share their electrons — behaviour that is exactly that of a metal. Dias and Silvera report that this state became obvious to them when the material in the diamond anvil cell developed the kind of lustrous surface so ubiquitous of metals. “As we turned the pressure up, it went to a transparent molecular solid. And then as the pressure kept going up, it went black, and we think it goes black because it becomes like a semi-conductor and it can absorb light,” Prof Silvera recalled on the BBC’s Science In Action programme. “And then we turned the pressure up higher and it started shining. It was very exciting. It's got extremely high reflectance. The reflectance we measured is about 90%. It's about the reflectivity of an aluminium mirror.”
It has to be said, however, that news of the Harvard experiment has already attracted a good degree of skepticism. Other scientists working in the same and related fields have told the BBC that the team's paper is short on the kind of data needed to make a proper assessment of its achievements. “Complete garbage," is how Eugene Gregoryanz from Edinburgh University described the research. "Like everybody else who works with hydrogen at high pressures, I am appalled by what is being published in Science.” That there is so much skepticism is natural. If what is being claimed pans out, it would represent one of the major physics breakthroughs of recent decades. Metallic hydrogen was first predicted more than 80 years ago, and there has been a race to create it ever since. That is because of the stunning properties that are promised. It has been suggested for example that metallic hydrogen might be metastable; that is — once made under extreme conditions it would maintain its state even when brought back up to ambient pressures and temperatures. And if, as some think, it is also a zero-resistance superconductor, that could lead to a revolution in the transmission and storage of electricity. For example, cables made from metallic hydrogen could feed energy across a country without the sort of electrical losses experienced in standard power grids. The US space agency is also fascinated by the material. Already super-cold liquid hydrogen makes for a very powerful rocket propellant, but the dense metallic form of hydrogen promises to deliver really colossal levels of thrust that would enable huge payloads to be lifted off Earth. But all this is in the realms of speculation for now. First, it must be shown that the Harvard work can be reproduced. If that's possible — and some are saying that is a very big “if” — then more sizable quantities of metallic hydrogen need to be created.
“I understand that others in the DAC community have been rather skeptical (arguing that the apparent reflectivity might be coming from contaminants in the sample, the aluminium oxide coating on the diamonds, etc.). However, if they really have achieved nearly 500 gigapascals in the DAC it is not unreasonable to have observed a transition to metallic hydrogen,” commented Marcus Knudson from Sandia National Laboratories. “The skepticism here is probably a good thing, in that it will drive many groups towards attempting to reproduce this experiment. This publication will certainly incite the field. Again, if it holds up, this is an exciting result. I think in this case time will tell,” he told BBC News. And Jeffrey McMahon from Washington State University concurred: "With respect to the tiny sample amount: Such experiments are performed in small diamond anvil cells. One challenge would be to make a larger quantity (at once); another, perhaps bigger challenge is to recover even the small sample (i.e., remove it from the extreme pressures that it is under in the diamond anvil cell). “Whether the latter is possible is an important open question.” |
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New Administration Plans on Spending $1.5 Trillion on Broadband Infrastructure
The Trump Administration is talking about spending up to about $1.5 trillion in broadband infrastructure, says USTelecom President/CEO Jonathan Spalter. Quoting incoming FCC Chairman Ajit Pai about the need to address the digital divide, Spalter challenged panelists at a broadband panel conducted by the association Thursday at the National Press Club, saying: “Translating the IoT into the infrastructure of things will take strong policy at all levels of government.” Former FCC Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy, who’s now EVP of Frontier Communications, said “at a minimum” telcos should start “working within the Universal Service framework because time matters.” Municipalities believe they’ll get broadband right away because of government funding but it doesn’t happen quickly, she said. “It takes a couple of years…if you start looking at things like tax credits, then Congress gets involved.” Working with an existing program to fund development saves time. On the flip side however she cautioned when working with a big government program, “there will be waste. You’re constantly avoiding the pressures of waste, fraud and abuse.” Abernathy’s company has done public-private partnerships, which is faster than waiting for a major bill to get through Congress. However everyone struggles with the economics involved in getting fiber or broadband to the last mile, especially in rural areas. In places where there is no competition “the economics are rotten. You cannot build and deploy at speeds people want for what the customer is willing to pay,” she said, adding “Your only source of revenue is the customer,” who is likely to be economically challenged in rural areas. Smart City President/CEO Marty Rubin said that dynamic is why his company is now in more urban areas, because the deployment economics “just weren’t there in rural areas.” “You’d have a rude awakening in terms of take rates for rural areas. They just wouldn’t pay” the same rates as customers in urban areas, he said. Smart cities also struggled with getting approvals for things like pole attachments with rural municipalities. It’s harder to get things done in rural markets versus urban ones, Rubin said. |
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Morning Brad, I have read your newsletter since about 2003 I believe, I was wondering did I miss anybody’s article in response to this articles?? http://www.hipaajournal.com/hipaa-compliance-and-pagers/ Would be interested to know if anyone challenged this — I quickly glanced and saw misinformation immediately — like COSTLY. . . Thanks and happy Thursday!!! Steve Donohue Wow Steve, I haven’t read that one. Really bad. Full of misinformation and strongly biased. Typical of a lot of the BS going around these days. Best Regards, Brad Dye You could call them out and debunk them — the link will propagate along with their link in search engines? Was just a thought. Cold here — hope all is well your way. Steve Donohue |
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