One of the more intriguing applications of cellular technology is in banking.
The phone won't work with carriers that use a different cellular technology, including Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp.
This event is a significant signal that the basis of competition has shifted markedly from cellular technology to computing technology to content.
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The world is now evolving toward 4 G LTE TDD cellular technology.
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Although their exploit doesn't target the competing CDMA cellular technology used by carriers like Verizon and Sprint Nextel, Muller argues it's not necessarily less secure.
While manufacturers of fixed-line phones were trying to come to grips with cellular technology, Nokia and Ericsson came out of almost nowhere to become, within a decade, globe-straddling corporations.
Mr. Mellor said that a mass scale literacy drive is the need of the day, and using modern cellular technology can help us to achieve our goal very rapidly.
Entitled Broadband: A Platform for Progress, the report advocates a coordinated, nationwide approach to broadband development that more closely resembles the development of national railway or electricity networks than the more laissez-faire, market-driven approach that has generally characterized the roll-out of mobile cellular technology.
Rather, as alleged, Wi-Fi technology shares a common design with cellular phone technology .
In terms of cellular access technology, U.S. carriers can be divided into two basic camps: CDMA and GSM.
Deutsche Telekom recently bought 20% stakes in both Malaysia's biggest cellular company, Technology Resources Industries (TRI), and fledgling Philippine operator, Islacom.
For rural users, mobile broadband is a much more cost-effective option to build, whether via cellular or satellite technology or both.
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Due to its strong patent position, it also collects fees from 195 licensees, spanning most of the cell-phone industry for code-division, multiple-access technology, which is the standard communications technology in cellular networks.
TruePosition argued it deserved a hearing before the standards board determining the next generation of location technology for cellular phones, since it is used in about half the phones in the U.S. today.
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ParkerVision explains that its radio frequency processing is a novel technology for the cellular handset market and that its chipset is particularly well adapted for the size and performance specifications of 3G and 4G smartphones.
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In Spain, cellular phone company Orange is using the technology in its New Talents enterprise.
It took years for mobile-networking technology to develop and for cellular towers to go up.
On a typical long-haul flight, says Mike Fitzgerald of Altobridge, a firm that makes technology to bridge satellite and cellular networks, 20 mobile phones are left switched on.
My friends, model this: The Internet is radically different from other technology sectors, like cable and cellular, that required a few years of blind faith and then hit their strides.
Think about how Motorola invented the smart phone technology, but kept investing in traditional cellular phones.
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Gogo's more than 150 land based cellular towers have already been modified for the new technology.
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He has set up joint ventures in partnership with global companies in the field of information technology, document processing, telecommunications and cellular telephony.
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Ericsson, Qualcomm and Alcatel-Lucent of manipulating a European standards board to keep its location technology out of the next generation of cellular phones.
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Sprint uses code division multiple access technology, or CDMA, in its cellular networks, while Nextel uses Motorola 's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) iDEN hardware.
This is because the the chipset technology had not matured enough to provide integrated cellular modems with LTE capabilities.
He and 42 fellow researchers are pioneering a radical technology to shine a bright light on the cellular causes of mental illness.
While the combination of the two wireless vendors makes good business sense, the task of integrating two different cellular networks will be complicated and potentially expensive, requiring technology that isn't even on the market yet.
So Samsung and LG both announced deals with a company called Kineto Wireless Inc. that's developing a hybrid wireless technology that can seamlessly pass a call from a cellular network to a WiFi network without interrupting the call.
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China Mobile, like all Chinese carriers, uses a unique technology standard (TD-SCDMA) for its 3G cellular network.
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The chip giant says technology trends such as the upgrade to faster, 4G cellular networks and the move to tiered pricing for wireless data have made pico projector phones newly relevant.
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