The goal is for the system to be wireless with everything contained in the body, much like a pacemaker, he says.
While the now billion-plus mobile devices are by definition wireless, everything arriving at and sent from all the devices ends up being transported in cables.
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What's needed now is the software to tie everything together: sensors, wireless radio networks and GPS navigation systems.
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As customers continue to add multiple devices to accounts following the introduction of the Share Everything Plan in June, Verizon Wireless now reports ARPA instead of ARPU since customers can share data among multiple devices.
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There is active 3D television with goggles and loaner blu-ray discs, surround sound, multiple wireless tablets that control everything from lights to curtains to room service menus - in seven languages, internet radio with thousands of choices, free international phone calls, the list goes on and on.
When completed, the wireless network will be used for everything from public safety applications to providing a pervasive network for Internet telephony and Wi-Fi cell phones.
However, it is a tenacious company with a lot of money behind it, an appetite for wireless, and a desire for control over everything it does.
Kilowatt-hours are consumed in enormous quantities by everything from the factories where microprocessors are made to the wireless networks, to gargantuan data centers, to the proliferation of ICT devices in homes and offices.
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In 15 years' time, when everything from shoes to shirts to sunglasses could well contain tiny wireless chips, people may use their phones to communicate with objects as well as talking to people, suggests Mr Lindoff.
Without 3GPP approval, wireless companies do not have the required technical blueprints needed to design and build everything from cellphone chipsets to broadband networks.
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Wireless has become a part of our everyday lives and will continue to influence everything we do at home, in the office and on the road.
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In the wireless biz, simple economics ensure that the little guys have a harder time of everything, including the all-important matter of getting decent handset selections from manufacturers.
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Everything is with you, where you want it, when you need it with a secure and wireless connection.
Interactive whiteboards were being promoted, wireless networks were seen as being another evolutionary step in online education and there were software packages for everything from tackling truancy to writing reports.
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