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Wireless gears up for the next big thing San Diego Union Tribune

Today’s smart phones let users send e-mail or surf the Web. But they don’t do it as fast as a computer hooked up to broadband at home.

Now wireless carriers are ramping up to change that.

So-called 4G networks promise wireless download speeds significantly faster than today’s existing 3G networks. They are a hot topic at the International CTIA Wireless trade show, which opened yesterday in Las Vegas.

“The speed is going to be significantly faster than what 3G is capable of today or what the promise of 3G is in the future,” said Anthony Melone, chief technology officer for Verizon Wireless.

Wireless companies will put billions into 4G networks over the next few years. There’s almost a “Field of Dreams” quality behind the effort — “If you build it, they will come” — with the mantra that additional bandwidth will lead to new applications and services that will justify the investment.

“There is a business case,” said Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts, a Phoenix-based industry research firm. “The fact is they’ll be able to sell a lot more smart phones and a lot more services with the greater bandwidth, and a lot of that is going to be tied into video.”

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Higher Voice Higher Fertility

If you notice your voice has gone up a notch, you may want to find your partner and get to work. This interesting article talks about how there is a measurable increase in the pitch of a fertile women.

www.abc.net.au

From the article:

A woman raises the pitch of her voice during her most fertile period of the month in an unconscious boost to her femininity, according to a US study

Greg Bryant and Martie Haselton of the Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture at the University of California in Los Angeles, report their finding in the journal Biology Letters.

The researchers asked 69 women to record their voice when they were at high and low fertility points in their menstrual cycle.

An analysis of the recordings revealed the closer a woman was to ovulation the more she raised her pitch.

The increase in tone was only slight - it wasn't Minnie Mouse on helium - but the peaks were enough to be picked up by the voice decoder and presumably by the male ear, as well.

The difference was the greatest on the two days preceding ovulation, when fertility within the cycle is the highest.

Curiously, this distinction only occurred when the volunteer, among the sentences she was asked to speak, introduced herself: "Hello, I'm a student at UCLA."

Lured
The scientists suggest the pitch change happens because men are lured to a more "feminine" voice in a woman - and women respond to the instinct.

Sexual signals and reproductive fitness are strongly associated with voice, which is why women are often drawn to men with the husky voice of the supposed alpha male.

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