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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft announces it has helped form a consortium to test a network using "white space" spectrum in the U.K. to help prove that unused spectrum can be used to alleviate the spectrum crunch.

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 a senior news editor at CNET ...

Google and Microsoft 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 running their ...

Microsoft researchers have designed a scheme for measuring whether licensed radio frequencies are actually being used so unlicensed devices can use it, something that may become necessary as demand ...