Earlier this month, a test conducted by the Leviathan Security Group showed that even "no-permissions" Android apps can access potentially sensitive data on your phone -- and transmit that data elsewhere via your phone's Web browser.
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The network will be the province of university and government researchers who access and transmit data-intensive files on the increasingly clogged, increasingly slower Internet.
One such project is called NewsFlash, and uses high-frequency red and green light to transmit data to the built-in camera on a receiving device -- in this case Samsung's Epic 4G.
It's something that Reuters pioneered -- in 1964 the company was the first to provide computers to transmit financial data internationally -- but in which it had been lagging behind thanks to the surprise success of Bloomberg's terminals in the late 1990s.
The fastest backbones in use today are OC-12 lines, which transmit data at 622 mbps, but Sprint recently announced plans to upgrade to OC-48 -- 2.5 gigabits per second.
This new breakthrough -- when combined with the DNA-based data storage and a method to transmit DNA between cells the school's already working on -- means that Stanford has created all the necessary components of a biologic computer.
Standardized by the Advanced Television Systems Committee and formally adopted as the ATSC Mobile DTV Standard, the new technology allows broadcasters to use a portion of the existing 19.4 Megabit-per-second DTV channel capacity to transmit data with extremely robust characteristics suitable for mobile, pedestrian and handheld applications.
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Vistar uses even cheaper technology--leased space on a geosynchronous satellite that is in view of all of North America--but its devices can't transmit as much data per burst.
The orderliness of lasers is what makes them useful for things like storing and relaying information--that's why they can transmit voice and data signals around the world through fiber optic cables.
Decked out in red, white and blue, the vehicle's interior serves as a TV control room -- complete with computer, video, satellite and videophone equipment -- where the network's crew can create, rework and transmit data around the world.
The son of a Berkeley civil engineering professor, Pister first built tiny self-propelled robots, such as a mechanical fly that could take wing and transmit data.
Using Bluetooth Smart, Wahoo's newest innovation allows cyclists to transmit their cycling App data from the iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, wirelessly to the handlebar-mounted RFLKT.
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