Lanci concedes that Acer must spend the next year strengthening ties to wireless carriers.
However, the competition to provide gateway and application software to wireless carriers is intense.
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For example, connectivity to wireless networks on the go would enable quick and easy online sharing.
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Last year, it offered a plug-in "stick" for laptops to connect to wireless Internet.
Wireless technology has become pervasive, from wireless phones to wireless networks linking home computers.
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Stronge exposure to wireless base stations and mobile devices like the Galaxy Nexus, Droid RAZR and Kindle Fire.
Samsung is also asserting that Apple violated several patents it holds related to wireless standards and other features.
McShane also notes that data indicates traffic to wireless and consumer electronics retailer was down in early July.
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If companies stop reducing prices, there would not be the same incentive for consumers to move to wireless.
Everyone from television studios to wireless carriers thinks consumers want to watch video clips on their mobile phones.
Skype also wants to pull in more revenue by licensing its technology to wireless carriers and consumer electronics manufacturers.
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It countersued in June 2011, saying Apple infringed on patents it holds related to wireless communications and camera phones.
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An IEEE group is currently working on a standard, 802.11e, that among other things will bring QOS to wireless networks.
Vodafone's system potentially offers full access to wireless internet on the move, but is not being offered to individual consumers.
Analysts surmised that this was because of the shift away from desktop computing to wireless devices, on which advertising is cheaper.
Also, through DLNA functionality on "Sony Tablet", users can "throw" personal content to large screen televisions or music to wireless speakers.
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After WiFi achieved great success, Bluetooth was spun as a technology for simple "cable replacement" (as opposed to wireless technologies that don't replace cables?).
But just 1.3% of the nearly 200 million U.S. wireless subscribers are watching mobile video, according to wireless research firm M:Metrics.
The airlines can then beam their content to passengers' devices, as well as to wireless screens they distribute or build into seats.
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Nokia has good technology for delivering live TV to wireless devices, and TV is an area everyone is betting Apple moves into.
Delagi declined to give details about OMAP 5, but said TI is increasing the amount of money it devotes to wireless technology.
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Now, the focus of concern is shifting to wireless phones and cramming.
It leases and manages antenna space on its multi-tenant communications tower sites to wireless service providers and radio and TV broadcast companies.
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If investors warm again to wireless stocks, Andrew looks poised to benefit.
Phone.com's specialty has been that it provides infrastructure to wireless carriers -- developing the WAP gateways that connect wireless networks with the Internet.
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For long-term investors still waiting for the company to sell more subscriptions to wireless phones and satellite radio, it's probably a different story.
We're all very well aware of the quite common disparity between specced and "real world" speeds, especially when it comes to wireless technologies.
In addition, V CAST Video from Verizon Wireless brings more than 100 full-length TV series from leading broadcast and cable providers to wireless phones.
It may also help Google that Motorola has a lot of background in the television set-top box business, which is technically akin to wireless.
The industry has now adapted the Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP, enabling companies to distribute Internet-ready information to wireless devices equipped to receive it.
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