Microsoft says that it has the fix to the world's spectrum crisis: unused broadcast TV spectrum called "white space." But consumers shouldn't get too excited; it could take years before technology ...

The first public white spaces network officially launched on Wednesday in Claudville, Virginia. It uses sensing technology from Spectrum Bridge with software and Web cams supplied by Microsoftand PCs ...

Consortium test this week will investigate how unused TV spectrum could be tapped for new wireless broadband networks, according a Financial Times report. Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET ...

For years, Microsoft focused its efforts to expand high-speed internet access on developing markets around the world. Now, the company is waking up to the problem in its own backyard, after the 2016 ...

When it comes to open spectrum Microsoft is on the side of the angels. Microsoft is continuing to push the FCC to let devices, not carriers, define what happens on at least a portion of the spectrum ...

Bill Cosby once asked, "Why is there air?" Over-the-air TV broadcasters are posing the same question nowadays, only to them, it's no laughing matter. (Getty Images photo) By Mark Halper, The ...

Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) are sniffing around white spaces spectrum in the U.K., according to a Telegraph report, with a view to possibly offering free built-in WiFi for mobile devices ...

Microsoft has disclosed fresh details today about a new center in Brussels, called the Microsoft Spectrum Observatory, which is examining how the existing radio spectrum can be used to provide users ...

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 13, 2003 — Microsoft Corp. voiced strong support for today’s Federal Communications Commission decision to allocate and establish usage rules for segments of the 5GHz spectrum ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft announced that it has opened a new spectrum observatory in Brussels, Belgium to provide ...