It commended the traditional fixed and mobile phone networks in the UK in this respect, but raised a flag about the introduction of the newer 4G cellular systems.

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The "killer applications" of speedy networks (which theoretically can transmit data at 40 times the rate of conventional cellular systems) have been widely touted to be portable videophones, plus access to Internet-based broadband content: games, music and shopping.

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Profits are off, sales growth has slowed dramatically and the company's market shares in cellular phone systems are slipping.

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On Tuesday, Cooper used his keynote address at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston to run down a list of complaints against the wireless industry that ranged from closed carrier networks to inefficient cellular antenna systems to the design of smart phones like the iPhone, which he argues are overly complex.

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Instead of relying solely on GPS to determine position, the SiRFstarV architecture gathers real-time information from GPS, Galileo, Glonass and Compass (when operational) satellites, multiple radio systems, such as cellular and Wi-Fi(R), and multiple MEMS sensors, like accelerometers, gyros and compasses.

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Economides said the agency had the opportunity to make the wrong choice back in the 1990s, when cellular carriers were bidding on spectrum for new digital systems and had to decide among the GSM, TDMA and CDMA standards.

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This vision for mobile payments has been enthusiastically embraced by the various stakeholders involved, including credit-card companies, cellular carriers, makers of smartphones, the leading mobile operating systems developers, and banks and financial institutions.

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Qualcomm started out making satellite-based tracking systems for trucking companies, but Irwin had far bigger plans:selling the world on a new digital way to connect cellular calls and carry 40 times as much traffic as the old analog systems then in place.

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Microdisplays will eventually end up in pagers and cellular phones, says Jim Bowser, a vice president at microdisplay vendor Three-Five Systems.

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