For a start, that means agreeing on a wireless-networking standard: but there are several rival technologies.
For the foreseeable future any website will be impossible to read on a wireless device without prior adaptation.
Google is also working on a wireless version of the platform that could be embedded in a cellphone or even a piece of jewelry like a ring.
Consumer companies are exploring smart vending machines that have tiny computers on a wireless network which leverage information like usage data and weather forecasts to determine replenishment schedules.
Engineers have been particularly successful with inductive technology, in which a smartphone with an inductive receiver loop embedded into the device itself can be placed on a wireless pad and have its batteries fully replenished without the need for wires or an electrical connection.
And while Steve Jobs has proved he can build a hot handset, with iPhone sales hitting the one-million mark this week, less than three months after its introduction on June 29--spending billions on a wireless network would leave Apple without an exit strategy if the iPhone stalls.
For instance in 2011 the new media artists Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev invented a gadget that allows them to hijack the wifi signal in a library or internet cafe, and to remotely edit the content of news sites such as nytimes.com so that anyone in the room browsing The New York Times on a wireless device sees modified headlines.
To offer a phone that works on Verizon network, Apple will have to build a phone based on a different wireless standard than the iPhone uses now.
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The first version also supports multi-player on a local wireless network allowing you to create a world and invite friends to build together.
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Neither CSR nor Apple will comment on plans for a wireless iPod, a rumor that's half as old as the iPod.
Neither CSR nor Apple will comment on plans for a wireless iPod.
"This is the kind of merger should have a positive influence on the wireless industry so it should be a relatively easy approval by the regulators, " says Kagan.
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 sleek and stylish smartphone comes with the latest high-end Nokia Lumia experiences, including Nokia Music, the HERE location suite, and the option to add wireless charging with a snap-on wireless charging cover.
The FCC currently decides on concerns of wireless spectrum concentration on a case-by-case basis: what's acceptable in one deal might be forbidden in another.
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If net neutrality is imposed for wireless networks, it could have a negative impact on wireless network providers in the United States.
So, here's a perfectly good wireless HDMI option based on a standard that everyone and their grandmother has already adapted too -- too bad there's not a laundry list of companies already signed on to integrate it.
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Firefly has launched the phone on SunCom Wireless, a division of Berwyn, Penn.
After taking the picture of the sign, it will appear on the camera's display with the translation, having looked it up on the internet through a wireless connection.
Ms. Gates, a regular train rider, initially expected the service to work as smoothly as Wi-Fi on JetBlue or Virgin America airlines, but she has given up on it and bought a wireless card from Sprint.
Naturally, you can count on a bigger assortment of wireless solutions, and likely the first big showing of the end of days for the speaker dock -- excluding anything that Apple's Lightning connector might make its way onto.
Barnes and Noble downtown, setting up a closed wireless network on her laptop to pass messages to her handler in a minivan parked outside.
Google must create a video for YouTube explaining how people can easily encrypt their data on their wireless networks and run a daily online ad promoting it for two years.
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Masiyiwa subsequently became the first person in the world to be granted a mobile telecoms license by a court of law rather than the government, and he went on to build Econet Wireless, a leading Pan-African mobile telecoms company with operations across Africa, U.K and New Zealand.
Based on wireless technology from Wisair, a leading provider of single-chip based Wireless USB solutions, the Easy Dock consists of a USB dongle that connects to your laptop and a receiver that connects to your monitor, mouse, keyboard, and speakers.
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While he estimates it will be five years until such a product is on the market, Patwari says a network of wireless transceivers around a bed can measure breathing rates and alert someone if breathing stops without any tubes or wires connected to the patient.
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Below is a video showing Need for Speed: Shift on the Verizon Wireless Droid X, which is a good example of a brand crossing over to multiple audiences.
You get that acceleration investment together with a national priority on national wireless to get to 98 percent.
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