Several more Colorado communities plan ballot questions in November on broadband projects. Many counties and municipalities cleared such ballot votes in recent elections to opt out of a 2005 state restriction on municipal broadband known as Senate Bill 152. Reversing that law may no longer be necessary given success of opt-out votes, and such votes combined with new state funding for broadband could lead to public-private partnerships in the state, local officials said in interviews. CenturyLink said citizens should support partnerships.
Sony landed U.S. patent 10,083,288 for a method of unlocking a smartphone using a “simulated parallaxing” 3D scene on the touch screen, Patent and Trademark Office records show. It describes dragging a finger on the parallaxing 3D scene to reveal a hidden “predetermined target object.” Manipulating the object through finger “gestures” can “satisfy the input requirements to unlock the electronic device if the revealing of the hidden object is accomplished by two or more distinct motions performed in a predetermined order,” it said. Sony didn’t comment Wednesday.
Sony landed U.S. patent 10,083,288 for a method of unlocking a smartphone using a “simulated parallaxing” 3D scene on the touch screen, Patent and Trademark Office records show. It describes dragging a finger on the parallaxing 3D scene to reveal a hidden “predetermined target object.” Manipulating the object through finger “gestures” can “satisfy the input requirements to unlock the electronic device if the revealing of the hidden object is accomplished by two or more distinct motions performed in a predetermined order,” it said. Sony didn’t comment Wednesday.
Sector 5 landed an FCC equipment authorization for a 15-watt transmitter wall for wireless charging in schools and businesses, said the company Tuesday. The FCC granted Sector 5's application Sept. 18. Sector 5 is working to develop Qi-compliant wireless charging products “for all types of devices,” said the company.
Sony landed a U.S. patent (10,083,288) Tuesday for a method of unlocking a smartphone using a “simulated parallaxing” 3D scene on the phone’s touch screen, Patent and Trademark Office records show. Many “authentication techniques that involve a lock screen” to control access to a phone’s “full functionality” can have their “drawbacks,” said the patent, which names David de Leon, former director-interaction at Sony Mobile Communication in Sweden, as its only inventor and is based on a March 2014 application. It’s easy to forget a PIN or password, and even modern “biometric” techniques for unlocking a phone aren’t infallible, it said. The method it describes provides for a “relatively fast and easy to remember unlocking action” that affords a “reasonable level of access security” by dragging a finger on the parallaxing 3D scene to reveal a hidden “predetermined target object,” it says. Manipulating the object through finger “gestures” can “satisfy the input requirements to unlock the electronic device if the revealing of the hidden object is accomplished by two or more distinct motions performed in a predetermined order,” it says. Sony didn’t comment Tuesday on plans to commercialize the invention.
Sector 5 landed an FCC equipment authorization for a 15-watt transmitter wall for wireless charging in schools and businesses, said the company Tuesday. The FCC granted Sector 5's application Sept. 18. Sector 5 is working to develop Qi-compliant wireless charging products “for all types of devices,” said the company.
Low-cost, two-way VHF/UHF radios must comply with rules, said an FCC enforcement advisory Monday. All such radios must be authorized before being imported, advertised, sold or operated here, the agency said. “Many of these radios violate one or more FCC technical requirements,” the FCC said. “Some can be modified to transmit on public safety and other land mobile channels for which they are not authorized, while others are capable of prohibited wideband operations. Such radios are illegal, and many have the potential to negatively affect public safety, aviation, and other operations by Federal, state, and local agencies, as well as private users.”
Low-cost, two-way VHF/UHF radios must comply with rules, said an FCC enforcement advisory Monday. All such radios must be authorized before being imported, advertised, sold or operated here, the agency said. “Many of these radios violate one or more FCC technical requirements,” the FCC said. “Some can be modified to transmit on public safety and other land mobile channels for which they are not authorized, while others are capable of prohibited wideband operations. Such radios are illegal, and many have the potential to negatively affect public safety, aviation, and other operations by Federal, state, and local agencies, as well as private users.”
Earth station in motion operators continue to clash with Iridium over the idea of ESIMs sharing the 29.25-29.3 GHz band on a co-primary basis with Iridium feeder links. In a docket 17-95 posting Wednesday, Inmarsat, SES and ViaSat said Iridium's proposed changes to the ESIM draft order (see 1809130025) would be too restrictive of aeronautical ESIMs in the band. They said Iridium hasn't shown why it supposedly can't coordinate with aeronautical ESIMs and said any in-line event involving an Iridium earth station, an ESIM, an Iridium satellite and the geostationary satellite would "be an extremely rare occurrence," while near in-line events would still be "very rare." They also said there's no material difference in potential effect of aeronautical ESIMs vs. ESIMs on the ground and since Iridium has said it can coexist with land and maritime ESIMs there's no reason the same doesn't hold true for aeronautical. Iridium emailed that the technical record and years of international studies show ESIMs will cause interference to non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) systems like its own. "And it is equally clear no one has identified a traditional way to coordinate ESIMs and NGSOs," it said. "This problem is manifestly worse with aeronautical ESIMs because: (1) they move very, very fast; (2) they change altitude; and (3) they can fly right between the gateways and the Iridium constellation -- making in-line events a certainty unless the ESIM is turned off. The draft Order has suggested that NGSOs can be protected by turning ESIMs off if they can see an Iridium satellite. That might work if it were adopted as a rule."
The Havfrue transatlantic subsea cable system will land at NJFX's New Jersey collocation campus, said a news release Tuesday. The system will link New Jersey and Denmark, with branch connections to Ireland and Norway, and is being built by a consortium including Aqua Comms, Google and Facebook, it said.