The birth announcement of the digital wireless era--issued circa 1995--was soon lost in an overload of Internet mania.
Digital wireless technology will likely do the same for this decade and, with luck, fuel a long-awaited rebound in high tech.
Perhaps most important, digital wireless is prying open the biggest bottleneck in tech--that "last mile" between speed-of-light fiber-optic networks and the zippy insides of your PC.
Long, overly qualified statements weighed down with technical jargon can't compete in the wireless digital maelstrom, where attention spans are limited and audiences are fickle.
The STRIVA CAP can be used in conjunction with a wireless router for digital connections throughout the Internet, or it can be used to create a direct local wireless connection whenever a Wi-Fi router or hot spot is unavailable.
The new PowerShot ELPH 330 HS digital camera provides advanced wireless connectivity for easy sharing.
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Gartner thinks there needs to be a wired backbone to the digital home, with wireless nodes also serving data to places the wires do not reach.
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And then there is its crowning glory: a wireless broadband digital home entertainment system, installed by Abrocour with a digital kit of parts from Microsoft and Intel, among others, and a BT broadband connection in the broom cupboard.
In an application with the U.S. Patent Office published in December 2007, Apple described a wireless system that would allow customers to place an order at a store using a wireless device such as a media player, a wireless personal digital assistant or a cellphone.
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Cricket offers nationwide wireless voice and mobile data services over high-quality, all-digital 4G LTE and 3G CDMA wireless networks.
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In this instance, these bands have been reserved for digital terrestrial TV broadcasting and wireless microphones.
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Instead of using menus on a screen to establish wireless connections, users will be able to simply hold a smartphone against another device (a wireless-equipped digital television, for example) and within moments a secure Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection is established between the two.
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The FCC is even asking if radio should still be considered a discrete market, in which ownership restrictions are evaluated as if consumers didn't have access to the Internet, digital cable and satellite, wireless Palm handhelds and the myriad other noisy forms of media that intrude on their daily existence.
He served as Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy and Business Development at Paramount Pictures and also ran Global Wireless Strategy and Business Development for the digital media division at Microsoft Corporation.
Like the digital goods fairness bill, the wireless tax fairness bill has a somewhat uncertain future.
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Gogo, a pioneer in wireless in-flight digital entertainment solutions, plans to utilize high-throughput Ku-band capacity on current and future SES multi-beam satellites serving the continental United States, the Atlantic Ocean Region and Europe.
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In addition to playing your personal digital music collection, The Sonos Wireless HiFi System gives you access to millions of songs and thousands of radio stations by partnering with Amazon Cloud Player, and more.
Digital Bridge, Open Range and Utopian Wireless have all won broadband infrastructure grants in recent years.
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Astounding advances have arrived ever since the analog innards of wireless gadgets gave way to digital-signal processing chips.
Cox Communications is a broadband communications and entertainment company, providing advanced digital video, Internet, telephone and wireless services over its own nationwide IP network.
Cruising right alongside wireless broadband and DMB (Digital Media Broadcast) cell phones, telematics refers more specifically to automobiles receiving remote information from commercial service providers.
This overgrown iPod of a remote is the wireless heart of the Sonos Digital Music System, a delightful--if expensive--way to shuttle music from computer or Internet around the house.
Each Oasis-class ship utilizes shape recognition cameras, smart cards, 900 wireless access points and other digital technologies to eliminate lines in experiences ranging from dining and onboard activities to excursions.
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The digital era is unlike the first century of wireless communication, when gadgets were analog and technological progress glacial.
In May, it announced plans to offer a digital wallet that includes payments and coupons and wireless, phone-based transactions based on its contactless PayWave technology.
This week, for example, No. 3 wireless carrier Sprint Nextel unveiled a new smart phone called the Sprint Mogul, which sports features similar to the iPhone: a large touchscreen display, wireless e-mail, a digital camera, wi-fi hotspot access and music and video playback functions.
Panasonic showed off a system that can pipe terrestrial digital broadcasts into trains, coupled with a wireless system to allow commuters to hear a broadcast's audio via headsets without disturbing other passengers (hey, some of us like to work, read -- or sleep -- on the train).
As a result, consumers are prone to experience deteriorated performance such as choppy videos and slower load times, especially when streaming content from the cloud, smartphone or tablet to a digital TV. 5G WiFi dramatically improves home wireless range, providing higher-capacity video streaming, the ability to connect multiple devices to the network at the same time and broader coverage with fewer dead spots.
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Wireless technology transfers stored photos from a digital camera or cellphone placed on the table to the Surface screen.
Their Diabetes Management Assistant (DIMA) is a wearable computer system with wireless communication including a glucose meter, digital camera and pedometer.
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