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In the news | Yahoo Finance
Microsoft has a crazy plan to make your batteries last a lot longer
A new Microsoft Research project could result in a laptop battery that lasts a lot longer.
In the news | Microsoft Blog
A laptop battery system that knows your habits and lasts a lot longer
Microsoft researchers, working with colleagues from academia, have come up with a system that uses multiple kinds of existing batteries, working in tandem with smarter software, to keep laptops and tablets charged much longer than current standards.
In the news | ComputerWorld
Power up! The hunt is on to extend battery life for mobile devices
While users are certainly relying more heavily on their devices, some observers hold that until battery capacity and efficiency evolve, mobile devices will fall short of being the command center of users' lives.
In the news | Phys.org
Finding more space in spectrum
In Microsoft Research's Mobility and Networking Research Group, senior researcher Ranveer Chandra has been co-leading the Networking Over White Spaces(KNOWS) project, which explores the use of spectral 'white spaces.'
In the news | MIT Technology Review
Chandra: Top innovator under 35
Ranveer Chandra made the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, his laboratory for the first large-scale network to demonstrate the potential of using white spaces to deliver broadband wireless.
In the news | Scientific American
Taking Waves: FCC Green Lights Unlicensed Use of Wireless “White Space” Frequencies
Consumer electronics companies got an early Christmas present this year when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to grant unlicensed smart phones, computers and other wireless devices approval to connect to the Internet via vacant "white space" airwaves.