News on Wireless Technology & Hearing Aids

HumanWare designs iPhone app to help deaf-blind individuals communicate more easily.

Technology that translates sign language into text aims to empower sign language users. New app being developed by scientists.

Starkey Hearing Technologies announces three new custom wireless styles.

Recent studies have yielded evidence that the human brain is sensitive to the effects of RF-EMFs from acute cell phone exposures and that further testing is warranted.

Join the conversation and let the FCC and hearing aid manufacturers know your position and thoughts on the Hearing Aid Compatibility Act.

The FCC has taken important steps to ensure that the latest wireless phones are hearing aid compatible which will expand access to mobile networks and services to the 8 million Americans who use hearing aids.

Dallas, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - For people with hearing and speech loss, communicating with callers who can speak and hear just went real time,...

A new application for iPhone and iPod Touch called soundAMP claims to be the "first assistive application that turns your iPhone and iPod touch into an interactive hearing...

New Phonak solutions offer intuitive wireless connectivity with mobile phones, TV, MP3 players or computers Stafa, Switzerland, April 1st 2009 - Phonak introduces a new...

TIA's Interference Standard Quickly Becoming Ubiquitous in the Industry. Arlington, Va. - The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the Hearing Loss Association of...

November 12, 2007, Washington, DC- ATIS announced today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) tentatively adopted a number of proposed rule changes set forth by the...

So youre jogging your usual route, listening to your iPod to block out the world and suddenly, out of nowhere, a bolt of lightening hits a nearby tree. You think that could be a...

April 24, 2007, Washington, DC ATIS announced today that wireless service providers, wireless manufacturers and advocates for consumers with hearing loss have reached on...

Kitchener, Ontario - Unitron Hearing US, a manufacturer of easy-to-use digital hearing solutions, announced today the availability of the WiFi Mic ITE-to-ITE system. Since its...

Ultra-low power technology positions AMIS as wireless audiology solutions expertPocatello, Idaho - July 5, 2006 - AMI Semiconductor (NASDAQ: AMIS), a designer and manufacturer of...

It is not only hearing instruments that are getting ever smaller. Todays wireless communication devices for people with hearing impairment are miniaturized as well. Two years ago...

A new invention by Phonak, MyLink, makes wireless communication possible for many hearing instrument users, who so far could not benefit from this technology.Recent studies...

The world's first design-integrated wireless receiver for a BTE speech processor.Now you can connect with the world around you in more ways than ever before. MicroLink Freedom is...

The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Mobile Wireless Technologies for Persons with Disabilities is conducting an online survey on how persons with disabilities use...

Atlanta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2005--SouthernLINC Wireless, a Southern Company (NYSE: SO), today announced the availability of four Motorola phones that are hearing aid...

Petaluma, CA October 1, 2005 A California hearing professional has found that over 90% of his patients report better hearing aid satisfaction after installing new Field home...

Alexandria, Va. (September 23, 2005) In an amazing and disturbing 11th hour concerted action, 16 small wireless carriers filed last-minute requests with the FCC to extend a...

MINI-INTERVIEW with Jerry Ruzicka, President of Starkey LaboratoriesTopic: Elis Coming: Wireless Connectivity from Mobile Phones to Hearing AidsBeck: Good Morning Jerry. f...

Latest FM Technology Allows Students To Concentrate, Understand More Clearly And Minimize Distracting Environmental NoisesWARRENVILLE, IL - December 1, 2004 - Phonak Hearing...

Washington, D.C. - Today the FCC adopted a Report and Order requiring wireless manufacturers and service providers to make digital wireless phones accessible to the more than 6...