She works in the communications field, as well as in setting up a charitable foundation focused on housing, education and health, according to show producers.
The Nortel breakthrough underscores the need for genuine deregulation in the entire field of communications.
Smith is almost certain to focus on operations inside the philanthropy, particularly the management of engineers producing products like communications tools for disease specialists in the field or Google maps identifying geothermal fields.
The U.S. military is evaluating Croquet for training radio technicians to build field communications systems in virtual terrain replicating the landscape in Iraq.
One uses embedded hardware in the form of a near-field communications chip (NFC) within smartphones, which requires an NFC-enabled merchant device to handle the transaction.
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Saudi Arabia aims to become a regional leader in an information society and the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
He also contends that iPhone 5 could contain new chips from Qualcomm (QCOM) that include both GPS and WiFI functionality, and in the future could add Bluetooth and near-field communications capability.
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Potentially there will be 150 million devices in the U.S. enabled with the near-field communications technology by 2014, too.
While the communications people operate almost exclusively in the world of perceptions, the field people operate in the world of hard data.
The duo were inspired by the energy needs of people who would not have ready access to the electric grid, particularly soldiers in the field, who often carry as much as 20 pounds of batteries to power their communications equipment, laptops and night-vision goggles, according to the news release.
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Essentially an iPhone app, it leverages recent developments in location awareness and social networking to keep tabs on both friends and enemies in the field, displaying positions on maps in real time -- all the while enabling secure communications between soldiers.
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This, inevitably, would work with (or potentially get in the way of, depending how you look at it) the onset of mobile payment systems using NFC (Near Field Communications) technology, essentially the fabled notion of waving your mobile phone in front of a checkout to pay for a cup of coffee.
Meanwhile it looks like Apple may not include NFC (Near Field Communications) hardware in its next-generation iPhone, which would let consumer wave the phone in front of a device at a retail store to pay for something.
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Starring Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach, it relates how a unit of Navajo field-communications soldiers uses a derivative of their Native American language to encrypt radio messages in the Pacific Theater.
They discuss the latest trends in mobile wallets, how text messages are being used for electronic payments, why Near Field Communications (NFC) is overhyped, and more. mCommerce is where mobility really touches consumers in a deep way, so if you have interest, this guide is for you.
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