However, the competition to provide gateway and application software to wireless carriers is intense.
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F-Secure, one of McAfee's rivals, became one of the first vendors to offer antivirus software for wireless devices.
That means anyone can develop new services and software for wireless devices and the networks have to carry them.
Early work is now under way on software for wireless security and for making optical switches smarter and faster.
Misek notes in a new report that there are three key areas where patents are concentrated: hardware, software and wireless technology.
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As ASSIA attempts to reach the scale needed to do an initial public offering, Cioffi is focusing his engineering team on developing management software for wireless networks.
During my research on Steve Jobs, I interviewed Rob Campbell, the CEO of Voalte, a wireless software provider for hospitals and point-of-care facilities.
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So I opened the wireless router software and played with some of the settings.
The company now offers content security software for WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) gateways and antivirus protection for Symbian EPOC devices.
He expects the new version to have a higher resolution screen, a much faster processor, Siri voice software and 4G LTE wireless.
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Larry Ellison, boss of Oracle, one of America's biggest software firms, thinks wireless will soon give more Europeans than Americans access to the Internet.
Intel Wireless Display software is easy to set up and use.
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An agreement with IBM, signed in July, will encourage its 100, 000salespeople and 150, 000 consultants to push Palms, particularly for customers of its new wireless WebSphere software.
This concept has been generalised by a number of wireless-software firms into the idea of digital graffiti messages that can be posted using a handset, and which correspond to a particular location.
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To safely operate in the mobile industry, a company needs to have substantial portfolios in the three main patent areas involved in the design of smartphones: operating system and software, hardware and wireless patents.
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Both Windows Firewall and the anti-virus firewall were enabled. (This is strange in itself: normally, an anti-virus program disables Windows Firewall.) Disabling Windows Firewall, rebooting, and reinstalling the printer software finally got the wireless printer working again.
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Notebooks include a wireless module, antenna system and software--and are not designed around the wireless components.
" Interestingly enough, the system supposedly relies on "modified software" running on regular WiFi equipment, and wireless access points with the newfangled software can seemingly daisy-chain directional network traffic through "several carefully aligned steerable antennas in order to eventually reach a fiber link connected to the internet.
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Smaller companies such as EveryPath, Aether Systems and Marbles also offer software for transcoding data for wireless devices.
According to an August 2004 Businessweek article, the lab was working on security software for high-speed wireless applications.
Sonos also released a free software update for the Sonos Wireless HiFi System.
As one of the largest providers of wireless chipset and software technology in the industry, Qualcomm has a diverse chipset and software product portfolio spanning multiple device classes.
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But someday soon, I think, thanks to the increasing miniaturization of semiconductor devices, wireless and better software interfaces like speech recognition, our technology is going to start disappearing, embedding into walls and dashboards and sheets of paper.
Cisco's software allows IT departments to monitor wireless use and ensure that unauthorized access points are not added to the network.
Moving beyond the energy use-case, big tech companies have been showcasing the various ways things like wireless sensors, analytic software, and improved processing power could help better manage any number of resources.
The BUG platform is a collection of discrete hardware modules, Verizon Wireless network-ready 3G modems, and associated software that can be easily combined and re-combined to create new, custom wireless devices.
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