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'Urban Stargazing' gives city folks back their stars (images)
Designer Oscar Lhermitte uses LEDs, fiber optics, nylon line, and giant slingshots to beat back light pollution and reconnect people with the aeons-old mysteries of the night sky.
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Comcast: Broadband subs hurt by fiber-optic rivals, economy
Comcast added 118,000 broadband Internet customers in the second quarter, a tally that was lower than some expectations. Executives said Comcast was seeing tougher competition from fiber-optic...
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Verizon FiOS, satellite pay TV providers beat cable companies in customer satisfaction poll
Cable companies have long been dogged with the reputation for poor customer service, and there are many, many examples of why this is so. Comcast is even rebranding its service as Xfinity to...
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Light Peak fiber optic connector to replace Firewire, USB, monitor cables
A new interconnect technology called Light Peak is being developed by Apple as a potential replacement for FireWire, USB and traditional monitor cables. Engadget reports that Apple brought the...
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Fiber sabotage reward jumps; more damage discovered
If there were a show called CSI: Silicon Valley, this could be the pilot episode. It appears that the Case of the Silicon Valley Fiber Line Cuts has taken a few more turns today. First, AT&T...
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Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer
The fiber-optic outage---actually sabotage---in the Bay Area on Thursday reveals a dirty little secret: Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable and it only takes a few vandals (or...
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News to know: Conficker; Patch Tuesday; Fiber optic sabotage; App Easter eggs
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Patch...
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AT&T offers $100K reward in fiber optic vandalism; notes second incident
updated below: No matter all of the advancements in wireless and mobile technology, at the end of the day, we're all still connected to a big wire somewhere. Early this morning, we discovered...
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DirecTV, Verizon FiOS lead in offering HD channels
If you believed the commercials, it would be clear that Comcast is the leader when it comes to providing the most HD programming. But anyone who has Comcast as their cable provider knows that the...
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Intel claims quantum leap in fiber-optic detectors
The chipmaker has developed silicon-based photoelectric detectors that could cut the cost of fiber-optic communications to a fraction of their current value.
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CBS video: 3D in the operating room
To a surgeon, precision is everything. As CBS News medical correspondent Jon LaPook explains, new fiber optic technology is providing a three-dimensional, lifelike image to aid in operations that...
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NASA tests fiber optic wing shape sensors
The Ikhana unmanned aircraft system has been used by NASA last year to fight wildfires from the sky and this month to provide images of current Californian wildfires to authorities. But Ikhana is...
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When it comes to electrical grid, smarter is greener
Got a dispatch out of Rosemead, California: “Southern California Edison Unveils Nation’s Smartest Neighborhood Electricity Grid.� The document goes on to cover what the utility calls the...
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Cisco outlines next Web revolution
Internet, growing urban populations and low hardware costs will fuel another major wave of innovation, company executive says.
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Photos: Verizon FiOS installation step by step
Verizon fiber-optic network took up a little turf, but the increased broadband speeds were worth it.
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My Verizon FiOS experience is about to begin
On July 3 I had one of my last Comcast outages--I say that knowing I'll have another one soon. This Comcast outage had particularly bad timing since I've been evaluating Verizon FiOS. Amazing how...
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Photos: Fiber optics lighting the way
Lights using fiber-optic technology and less energy might overtake traditional lighting at the supermarket and beyond.
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Hybrid solar lighting
New hybrid solar lighting system uses fiber-optic cables to disseminate daylight indoors.
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Photos: Verizon's Fios TV
The company is developing interactive features for its IP TV service, which uses a fiber optic network to deliver programming to customers.
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Photo: Sun's thin clients
Sun Ray 2 is less expensive, smaller. Sun Ray 2FS has fiber-optic ability and supports two high-res displays.
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