Network connectivity for example, the wired Internet, was a powerful accelerant for the desktop era.
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The 350 requires wired Internet (or a separate wireless bridge with an Ethernet connector) while the 500 has WiFi.
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The high price point for both PCs and wired Internet access makes access to the web via mobile phone a much more attainable reality.
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Increasingly, social networks around cell phone technology will be more useful for much of the developing world, as well as many developed countries, where mobile technology is streaks ahead of wired internet.
Mr. Shammo said Verizon's 4G network, which is based on technology called Long-Term Evolution, can deliver between 1 and 12 megabits per second of data, allowing for tiered pricing structure similar to home wired Internet service.
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Google has been busy pushing ahead with plans to be a wired internet provider in the US with Google Fiber, and it looks like it's intent on being a major player in the wireless network business elsewhere in the world as well.
That effort would reportedly involve partnerships with local companies, and an emphasis on delivering wireless access to residents outside major cities, where wired internet remains unavailable -- Google, and Eric Schmidt in particular, have repeatedly talked about reaching the next five billion people.
For example, include in a hotel write-up if rooms are wired for Internet access.
It has access to more back-end capacity than just about anyone else and it will use it to stitch together its own version of both the wired and wireless Internet in the months and years ahead.
And one of the things that we didn't talk about earlier, we're also going to be putting more money into school construction, because there are a lot of overcrowded schools and overcrowded classrooms that aren't wired for the Internet effectively.
Villagers in a remote region of Laos that has neither electricity nor telephone connections are being wired up to the Internet.
Growth in mobile traffic is not simply a result of a shift in internet traffic from wired to mobile networks.
Zona has that opportunity now in Latin America, land of 500 million potentially wired souls, where the Internet landscape is still virgin.
Empowered and hot-wired-to-the-Internet consumers can move faster than an electronic money transfer when they feel the need.
Modern college dorms are more high-tech than most office buildings, wired with super-fast connections to the Internet and equipped with all the amenities of 21st-century life.
Lightweight and compact with its own travel case, the Pocket Router is small enough to carry while traveling and sets up easily to share an Internet connection or connect to an existing wired network in a conference room, hotel room or anywhere a Wi-Fi network is needed.
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As of June, 2011, 95% of all Americans had access to broadband Internet from cable, DSL, fiber or other wired services.
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As the International Data Corporation estimates, by 2015, more users will access the Internet through mobile devices than through personal computers or other wired devices.
Wireless technology has allowed scientists and researchers to pepper internet-enabled sensors far beyond the range of the wired grid, but the issue of powering these devices still remains.
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Western Europe's employees are also better wired: every new member-state is below the western average for internet penetration, and all but Estonia and Slovenia trail on e-government scores.
Singapore is the most "wired" with claims that every house on the island is connected to the Internet via high-speed broadband cable.
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For its part, Wired was keen to test its thesis that the mainstream media had got the Internet and, by extension, the connected completely wrong.
"Once someone has a wireless device, she becomes much more active in how she uses the internet -- not just with wireless connectivity, but also with wired devices, " said Pew.
With people using the Internet for work and play and accessing programs using a variety of wired and wireless devices, applications need not be bought in a box (see column page 162).
The Internet was supposed to be about the long tail: In 2004 Wired editor Chris Anderson wrote a seminal article describing how the Web would create limitless choice and revive interest in deep reaches of music, book and video archives.
In Asia, where far more people carry cellphones and watch TV than surf the Net, the investments also acknowledge that Internet content will in the future be accessed over different types of wired and wireless networks and on various devices, not just computers.
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If anything, Iowa and New Hampshire have a particularly large wired population: The most recent U.S. census shows that both states have higher rates of Internet usage than the national average.
For Andrew Blum, a writer for Wired, that illusion was shattered on the day a squirrel chewed through the wire connecting his house to the internet.
According to statistics from august bodies such as the Nua Internet survey and Nielsen-Netratings, just 600m of the world's 6.3bn people are wired to the web.
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