NEW YORK (Reuters) - Somewhere on a lonely mountaintop on a starry night, or maybe in an apartment on a bustling city block, someone is channeling the whole world onto a mobile device. It's not a ...

OTTAWA — During the height of the Cold War (1947–1991), the shortwave radio bands were alive with international state-run broadcasters; transmitting their respective views in multiple languages to ...

Washington, D.C. (CTV Network) — In a world of mobile phones, satellites and the internet, some old school technology is making a major comeback. The shortwave radio, used by spies for decades to send ...

LONDON, July 7 (UPI) -- Many short-wave radio broadcasters have moved to Internet streaming, but others say they are filling the newly empty spectrum to reach remote areas like Africa. Budget cuts ...

For more than four months, Hong Kong has been in the grips of a civil crisis. Protestors have taken to the streets to challenge the Hong Kong government’s growing acquiescence to Beijing while Chinese ...

Congress has approved cuts in shortwave transmission sought by the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The BBG is an independent federal agency that oversees U.S. international broadcasting networks. Its ...

Other kids are consumed with cellphones, text messages and Tweets, e-mails and Facebook postings. But 75 teenagers in Calabasas have become licensed amateur radio operators and hope to lead a new wave ...