Of course, if Apple's going to sell 6 million European iPhones in the next 3 years as expected by Credit Suisse, then you can bet that little slab will be sporting a 3G radio for data-happy Europe.
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Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.
While the Zune and especially the Sansa Connect have some interesting features built on WiFi (as should the Slacker portable player due later this year), neither has come close to rivaling the iPod, which (at least up until this point) has lacked an FM radio, much less a a data radio.
It is equipped with advanced electronic, electro-optic, infrared and laser system technologies, as well as secure radio systems with data links and munitions capacity for 130 different types of weapons configurations.
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They would farm the task out to thousands of owners of personal computers by sending them chunks of data from radio telescopes, along with the software needed to look for intelligent signals.
This hardware was used to build a simulated aircraft that ran many of the systems found on commercial aircraft and could swap data via radio with the air traffic and navigation systems used in the real world.
Some of you might remember when Wi-Fi was first being built into notebook computers, my company, as well as many others, ran tests to determine range and speed (the weaker the radio signal the less data speed), and found big differences.
And new innovations such as printed circuit technology and the white space radio spectrum (transmitting data over unused TV channel airwaves as we switch from analogue to digital TV) are all helping to create a world where everything can talk to everything else, and everything to us.
We had heard this rumor on the internets a little while ago, and now it looks like Swatch is really going to come out with a SPOT watch (SPOT, of course, being Microsoft's Smart Personal Object Technology that uses FM radio signals to send data to watches, like news, stocks, instant messages, etc.).
Its goal is nothing less than to review thousands of pages of yellowing FCC rules and regulations and recommend how to adapt or eliminate them to reflect the utter transformation of 20th century telephone, radio, television and data networks all of which are in the final stages of conversion and upgrade to native Internet technologies.
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Future versions will also allow wireless data transmission over radio frequencies, as well as over home electrical wiring.
It is a contactless radio technology that can transmit data between two devices within a few centimeters of each other.
Big-box retailers, particularly Lowe's (nyse: LOW - news - people), radio broadcasting, semiconductors and data-storage gorillas like EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people).
He points out that Apple would be an especially deadly partner in the radio race because it has already stored ample listening data from its music-recommendation engine that could power a Pandora-like radio stream.
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And there are credible television and radio stations dedicated solely to sharing data and providing guidance.
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In the more distant future, it may allow communication at higher data rates than present radio links can provide.
He planned to feed them fake or booby-trapped data via well-known radio communication systems.
Suddenly, he had the rarest of commodities: national radio spectrum with which to build a data network.
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The snag is that in some countries, including America, radio spectrum ideal for mobile video and data communications is in short supply.
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In recent weeks Dr Smith and Dr Sample, working with Scott Southwood, another researcher at the University of Washington, have built a weather sensor that measures temperature and light levels and sends a packet of data every five seconds by radio.
Keep seized phones in metal-plated Faraday bags or other radio-frequency-shielded container until their data can be copied.
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Within five years, says Jeff Jury , Ibiquity vice president, analog AM and FM radio signals will go digital, and carry data over the air as well as traditonal audio signals.
The attraction of these tiny passive chips, which emit a stream of digital data only when energised by a radio beam, is that it is not necessary to see a tag to read it.
The company produces more than 15, 000 standard products, including amplifiers, data converters, and low-power radio frequency devices.
"I don't foresee anything changing, " he says, citing emerging data floods from global positioning systems, radio-frequency identification tags and Homeland Security regulations.
The Hydra comes in either 1GB or 2GB flavors and features an integrated FM radio, USB 2.0 for both quick data transfer and charging the bundled AAA battery.
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On the horizon, new data services such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) may make it cheaper for users to stay logged on to AIM all day.
Sadly, the "buy from FM" feature quickly reminded us why we can't stand music radio, and while we could easily get the meta data for the station we tuned to, specific (or sufficient) song data was more rare -- on our fourth or fifth try we finally nabbed Rod Stewart's Maggie May, and the actual download process was painless.
Sprint customers could have handsets with two-way radio service and Nextel users would gain the benefits of Sprint data and voice telephone service.
Not all planes across oceans have data-link capabilities, and high-frequency radio is still used with some flights and as a backup with others.
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