Ranveer Chandra

April 1, 2016

Chandra's first revelation was that farmers could use television white spaces -- TV frequencies that aren't being used in rural areas and can be accessed for wireless Internet connectivity.

October 4, 2015

A new Microsoft Research project could result in a laptop battery that lasts a lot longer.

October 2, 2015

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.

January 19, 2015

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.

January 30, 2014

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.'

December 31, 2010

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.

October 15, 2010

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.