On December 12, 1901, Italian born engineer Guglielmo Marconi succeeded with the very first radio transmission across the Atlantic, by receiving the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland transmitted by the Marconi company's new high-power station at Poldhu, Cornwall. The distance between sender and receiver was about 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi) and with this groundbreaking long distance record the era of wireless telecommunication started.
On November 9, 1913, Hollywood movie star Hedy Lamar was born, co-inventor of an early form of the spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary for wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day.
Am 21. April will die Bluetooth Special Interest Group die Bluetooth-3.0-Spezifikation vorstellen und Unternehmen nennen, die möglichst schnell Geräte auf Basis der weiterentwickelten Variante dieser drahtlosen Übertragungstechnik auf den Markt bringen.
Vorlesungsaufzeichnung Nr. 08 aus der Reihe "Rechnernetze und Internettechnologie" an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Dr. Harald Sack, Sommersemester 2008