Microsoft msft , meantime, looked like it was heading for its own web-wireless protocol, taking on Netscape in browsers and talking up its wireless prospects.
Nokia, which now claims it created "more than 50%" of the wireless protocol, has its own server software and will compete with Phone.com.
The ZigBee wireless protocol was designed as a cheaper and lower-power alternative to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for embedding in lighting switches, thermostats, smoke detectors and other sensors.
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But FHSS lives on in today's mobile phones: it is the basis of Bluetooth, a short-range wireless protocol that is used to connect handsets to other nearby devices.
Unraveling an outmoded wireless protocol called WEP, the electronic intruders spent more than a year and a half from mid-2005 to December 2006 stealing reams of private financial data.
Microsoft msft (nasdaq: msft - news - people), meantime, looked like it was heading for its own web-wireless protocol, taking on Netscape in browsers and talking up its wireless prospects.
It appears that the Texas Instruments controller chosen for the e-paper watch does not support the wireless protocol's low energy profile, something Pebble lists as one of the specs on its site (we've reached out to the company for clarification on this matter).
It's palm-sized with a single blue LED light indicating a connection, but honestly you don't ever need to look at it: it doesn't need line-of-sight to your handset because it uses a wireless protocol called WiFi Display, which means you can happily leave it dangling out of the way behind your TV.
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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.
Rossmans design became part of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), developed with Ericsson, Motorola mot , and Finlands Nokia nok .
The company now offers content security software for WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) gateways and antivirus protection for Symbian EPOC devices.
WAP, short for wireless application protocol, the standard for connecting cellphones and the Internet, is all the rage in Europe.
The nearest thing the GSM networks have to i-mode is a service known as Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP, launched at the beginning of this year.
The other big global player in sending mobile data through Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) is Vodafone-Airtouch, which just joined with Mannesmann in the world's biggest-ever merger.
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Hawkins also said it is hard for WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)-enabled sites to offer a compelling user experience, but that his company would support any platform that users want.
Handling data streams in a dozen divergent formats from web pages to Java commands to wireless application protocol (WAP) overwhelms the cheap, simpleminded chips in most cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
During his demonstration, Gates showed how people who book flights using the Expedia online travel service will automatically receive updated flight and weather information cellular phones enabled with wireless applications protocol.
Though devices using WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) technology will not disappear from the marketplace, both Potter and Yankowski agreed that different devices using 3G technologies will dominate mainly due to the convergence of voice and data.
Rossmans design became part of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), developed with Ericsson, Motorola mot (nyse: mot - news - people), and Finlands Nokia nok (nyse: nok - news - people).
The new version of WAP, or wireless application protocol - a standard that allows mobile devices to display Web-like information - is due out by January, and is expected to create a PC-type environment that could open the door to attacks.
Now that SMS is taking off, a new data-service wireless-application protocol, or WAP, is taking hold for digital cellular networks.
That relationship moves to a new level on Sunday, when two cars from the Red Bull Cheever Racing team compete in the Indianapolis 500, armed with a cutting-edge Internet Protocol-based wireless system that gives the entire team access to a wealth of real-time information and communications during the race.
They can use Cisco 7920 wireless voice-over-Internet Protocol phones to talk to the drivers or to mechanics back in the garage.
Unlike most Wi-Fi routers, Airport Extreme uses the Wireless Distributed System (WDS) protocol which should let us daisy chain base stations wirelessly.
It also marks the first time a U.S. wireless operator is actively promoting a Voice Over Internet protocol (VoIP) application to its subscribers.
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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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If a wireless printer defaults to dynamic IP address assignment, yet the Windows network printer protocol expects printer IP addresses to remain static, how are they supposed to keep their printer running?
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