http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:00:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2010/12/local-community-radio-act-diversifies-airwaves.html Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:19:23 +0000 Grassroots pressure helped pave the way for the creation of new, non-commercial stations on American airwaves.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/long-range-wi-fi-through-unused-tv-spectrum-fragments.html Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:30:15 +0000 It may not look like much, but that little box could be the answer to long distance Wi-Fi connectivity, possibly from a mile away.  Yesterday, at the SIGCOMM Conference in Barcelona, the Networking Research Group from Microsoft Research presented their WhiteFi project to expand wireless capabilities through unused portions of the TV spectrum. Image credit: Getty Images, Joshua Caldwell/Flicker As television stations migrate to digital broadcasts from traditional analog signals, they free up space on the lower and longer traveling frequencies.  The empty fragments of the spectrum can be utilized to broadcast a broadband wireless internet signal, though serious technologicalRead more...]]>