The recent furor over the iPhone 4’s antenna has made consumers aware of the constraints designers face when trying to build sleek, compact gadgets that also get a good connection. Researchers at Rice ...

A London council is spending thousands of pounds on scientific tests in an attempt to see whether cell phone antennas (mobile phone masts) could have caused a cluster of cancer cases. Residents of ...

Physicist and frequent eFlea participant Eric Einarsson built a yagi antenna to boost the reception and transmission distance for his brother’s cell phone. Eric writes: Here is some information and ...

The mobile phone in your pocket or purse is part of a vast communications system that is mostly beyond our vision, much like the internet. But as journalist Andrew Blum explains in his new book Tubes: ...

County staff is recommending that the County Board approve AT&T’s request to put new cell phone antennas in a pair of North Arlington church steeples. Last month the company went before the board to ...

MUSKEGON COUNTY — The “crown” that appears to rest atop Mr. Smiley, the locally famous yellow water tower in Fruitport Township, does more than signify its royal status among the elevated water tanks ...

Wireless antennas -- those unobtrusive fixtures that allow us to chatter from our cell phones, surf on our PDAs and beep each other's pagers -- occupy a curious place in our urban landscape. They are ...

New T-Mobile cell phone towers soon could begin sprouting around Menlo Park, with the first one planned for a site on Sand Hill Road. The city’s planning commission Monday will review the national ...

The constraint: Tuck a 7-inch antenna inside the case without adding bulk.The solution: Print it like a chip.Year: 1998Weight: 4.1 ouncesTalk time: 2 hours 50 minutesIn the early 1990s, the cell phone ...

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP)-- A major Long Island township's appeals board has rejected a cell phone company's proposal to install six wireless antennas on the roof of a Jewish community center. Town of ...

BRIDGEPORT — Teachers don’t want it. Parents didn’t either — unless their school reaped the benefit. Still, the Board of Education on Tuesday decided to let T-Mobile put an antenna on top of Hallen ...