And in February it became the first U.S. carrier to allow customers to use wireless handheld devices to check in for flights.
The candidate should be able to design antennas suitable for wireless handheld devices with excellent radiation performance, including TRP, TIS, SAR, and EMC.
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The IMfree Personal Instant Messenger, a small wireless handheld device for those young people that's designed to do one thing: AOL Instant Messenger.
"Our principal goal is to create one worldwide standard that all wireless handheld devices work on for Internet access and browsing, and it would be a huge accomplishment to have 3Com join, " said Chuck Parrish, who recently completed his tenure as chairman of the WAP Forum.
Take the BlackBerry, the handheld wireless e-mailer made by the Canadian company Research in Motion.
XcelleNet's programmers wanted to upgrade the product to work with handheld wireless devices.
Smith introduced the handheld wireless wands used to scan each package 10 to 20 times as it passes through the FedEx network.
There are two versions of the Scoop pointer, one optimized for TV viewing, and one with a red laser pointer designed as a handheld wireless presenter.
Microsoft's wireless push takes flight as its large stable of MSN Web services, such Hotmail and Expedia, becomes available on wireless phones and handheld devices.
Twelve NFL teams plan to use FanVision this fall, an interactive handheld wireless device, the technology of which is owned by Miami Dolphins chairman Stephen Ross.
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The iGUGU InterneTV system consists of an innovative, compact handheld wireless remote control, wireless or cable-based options to connect the PC to the television, and an easy-to-use, powerful, software application that aggregates free and subscription-based content on the Internet, giving users the ability to search, catalog and play more content than any other solution on the market.
In this third cycle the unleashing of wireless broadband connectivity in handheld smart phones and smart tablets will be like proverbial fuel on the fire.
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Martin Cooper revolutionized the wireless industry by inventing the handheld mobile phone.
Handheld computers and wireless net-phones would also benefit from a less chatty protocol, more efficient use of their limited battery power, the ability to cope in noisy environments, and an easier way to send files while on the move (from, say, digital cameras).
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My parameters were simple: a small handheld camera with integrated wireless.
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Both deals involve rolling out wireless Internet services to some 2 million handheld telephones over the next year.
Some of his bombs: Crescenda Wireless, a developer of software for handheld computers, which dissolved, and Encryptics, a Stamps.com ticket-printing spinoff that went nowhere.
With the potential to offer many advanced uses, such as virtually instantaneous wireless backups, synchronization and file transfers between computers and handheld devices, the WiGig standard (802.11ad) is the result of close industry collaboration led by Dell and Wilocity.
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And just a few years hence, wireless interactive access devices, such as smart mobile telephones and handheld computers, are expected to offer easy Internet access on the move.
Along with Microsoft's new generation of Internet-oriented software, users will need other non-software technologies tailored for the Web, such as broadband access, wireless communications, smart cards, phones with large screens, handheld computers and PCs with integrated microphones and cameras, Gates said.
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The wireless web was supposed to unchain workers from their desktops and let handheld gadgets turn streams of invisible bits into stock portfolios, music and shopping sprees.
Mobile phones are evolving into conduits for e-mail and Web data, while handheld computers and laptops are starting to adapt to a new array of wireless technologies.
Many speculators point to this as yet more proof that Google is working on a mobile handheld device following the company's acquisition of a company founded by wireless designer Andy Rubin.
Credit the spread of home WiFi technology, which allows consumers to use wireless technology not only hook their television sets up to the Internet, but to link them to their handheld devices, said Paul Gray, DisplaySearch Director of TV Electronics Research.
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