Any way we look at it, the auction should help create a level playing field for all wireless players.
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Why should using an iPad, Kindle or bag-holding alarm clock be banned during take-off and landing, even with all wireless comms switched off?
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The conference's wireless network consists of 25 network access points and eight listening devices, which allows the network to monitor and control all wireless access throughout the conference.
They just asked again to turn off all wireless devices.
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Very few, such as McCarran International in Las Vegas, monitor all wireless traffic for intruders. (The Vegas airport officials are quick to add that they don't censor for content.) Others, like San Francisco International, are laissez-faire.
"Last year at CES 2012, Broadcom introduced the industry's first 5G WiFi chips and committed to enabling the adoption of the technology across all wireless product segments, " said Dino Bekis, Broadcom Senior Director, Product Marketing, Wireless Connectivity Combo.
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The Android platform, which is the operating system provided by Google ( GOOG), now accounts for more than 40% of all wireless phone sales in the United States, and Motorola is well positioned to continue to take advantage of this.
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It is also important to note that like all wireless services, the more customers using wireless broadband within a cell or cell sector (cell sites are normally divided into three equal sectors of 120-degree coverage each), the slower the network will appear to those using it.
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"Our principal goal is to create one worldwide standard that all wireless handheld devices work on for Internet access and browsing, and it would be a huge accomplishment to have 3Com join, " said Chuck Parrish, who recently completed his tenure as chairman of the WAP Forum.
Digital Life also features simple installation because it is an all-wireless system, eliminating the need for hard wiring.
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The PR3, PR4 and PR5 all had wireless capabilities, but it took a backpack to lug around the necessary tech.
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This means more cell towers, more small cells, more Wi-Fi, more advanced technology like LTE and MIMO, more spectrum, and more Ethernet optical fiber links connecting all these wireless and data center nodes.
For those crying out for the Federal Communications Commission to address the problem and make more spectrum available to support surging consumer demand for all things wireless, there is good news and bad news.
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After all, wireless keyboards would never need USB 3.0 speeds unless some sort of display were integrated, and particularly in cheaper products, using an older USB chipset could help keep costs down and MSRPs lower.
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Apparently the 360 will also play VC-1 (aka WMVHD, one of the Blu-ray codecs) files out of box, as well as MP3 and WMA. No word yet on all that wireless biz we've been hearing about, either.
So we all know wireless is the (next) big thing, and that the Xbox 360 is supposed to have wireless controllers, and even be capable of acting as a wireless hub on your WiFi network so we can assume RF (or Bluetooth) and WiFi right there.
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"We will have people-to-machine wireless, people-to-pet--all sorts of wireless communities, " Sull says.
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In an ideal world, Google would like free and clear access to all of the eyeballs on all of the wireless networks around the world.
Qualcomm, Intel and most of the companies involved in mobile computing and wireless all agree on one thing: Embedded wide-area broadband is the way to go for notebooks, UMDs and consumer appliances.
When Detective Northrup visited each of the addresses, she determined that all had unsecure wireless networks that would allow someone parked near the location to access the internet through their unsecure wireless connection.
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Bob Mansfield will lead a new group, Technologies, which combines all of our wireless teams across the company in one organization, allowing us to innovate in this area at an even higher level.
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InterDigital, as it happens, is a technology company that specializes in patent licensing: the company notes on its Web site that it has 8, 800 U.S. and foreign issued patents and almost 10, 000 pending applications, almost all related to wireless communications.
The top 25 local wireless markets, served by all the major carriers along with smaller wireless companies eager to buy market share with low prices, are already so competitive that the merger would have little material effect.
Digital Bridge, Open Range and Utopian Wireless have all won broadband infrastructure grants in recent years.
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This network build-out is expected to improve all aspects of the wireless experience for customers.
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As early as 2004 the city's Water and Sewer Commission had equipped almost all its customers with wireless smart meters.
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The Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network is currently in more markets than all other U.S. wireless providers' 4G LTE networks combined.
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The retail and branding effects of social media, healthcare-related technologies, connectivity and the explosion of wireless were all discussed during the session.
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But all that changed when wireless carriers began rolling out 3G networks.
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