They require communications over both fast, fixed networks and slow, or unreliable wireless links.

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The solution: For a few billion dollars, Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) could get into the phone business itself, buying the spectrum it needs to offer not just voice service for all those iPhone users, but to build the broadband wireless links it needs to offer next generation, network-centric computing, communications and entertainment.

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Taking the advice of "Roof" Lumry, Perry and Hooper made a killing on early hit Infospace.com, which links content to wireless devices and Web sites.

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This means more cell towers, more small cells, more Wi-Fi, more advanced technology like LTE and MIMO, more spectrum, and more Ethernet optical fiber links connecting all these wireless and data center nodes.

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While cables serve as secure communications links to critical systems, wireless connections are susceptible to hackers, which opens the door to myriad potential problems.

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The STRIVA-enabled headphone receives these special address instructions from the MyKOSS server and links the headphone directly to music streams using available wireless access points.

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What's different is inside the handle: a chip that captures biomechanical information and links to your computer, smartphone or tablet via a wireless connection.

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Indeed, the spread of broadband internet links, mobile phones and, in particular, home wireless networks over the past few years has led some people to conclude that the dream might even be about to become a reality.

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In India, where fixed-line broadband links are rare, many will get their first taste of speedy surfing over a wireless network.

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