In his 93 years he claimed over 180 patents (the most recent of which was filed on February 1), but his greatest achievement was to invent the first practical wireless television remote control.
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"They are gearing up to fight new competitors, the cable-television industry, for the complete bundle of services, including telephone, television, wireless and Internet, " said independent telecom analyst Jeff Kagan.
By urging the industry to develop common standards for the application of streaming video and audio in wireless internet applications and television set-top boxes, Apple stands to at least hold its ground if the playing field is leveled.
Instead of using menus on a screen to establish wireless connections, users will be able to simply hold a smartphone against another device (a wireless-equipped digital television, for example) and within moments a secure Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection is established between the two.
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Everyone from television studios to wireless carriers thinks consumers want to watch video clips on their mobile phones.
The company offers gear designed to help cable and phone companies squeeze more video capacity out of a limited amount of bandwidth as consumers watch video clips on their computers, demand more channels from their cable companies, and even start to watch television on their wireless phones.
If Dish successfully pried Sprint away from Softbank, the company would be able to package TV and wireless services, allowing it to mix the slow-growing pay-television business with the more quickly expanding wireless industry.
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For one thing, white-space transmitters have to avoid interfering with both local television stations and the wireless microphones used in conference halls, sports arenas, theatres and churches.
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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Since then, we have added 11 more sites, introduced a booming wireless business and launched very promising enhanced television operation that is just now beginning to reach a large audience.
The Consumer segment offers wire line services such as internet, telephony and television, and retail and wholesale wireless services.
The government plans to expand a fully-featured system to provide alerts via television, radio, and "wireless communications" by March 2007, but until then, we suspect the ole "ear to the ground" method is the best you've got.
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"This is tremendous news for Sprint Nextel since it means all the cable-television companies' efforts to sell wireless, from coast to coast, are going to be over the Sprint Nextel wireless networks, " says independent technology analyst Jeff Kagan.
So far, the wireless carriers have only dipped their toes into mobile television.
The venture's aim is to allow the cable companies to offer their customers a "quadruple play" of television, telephones, Internet access and wireless phones.
Cable operators want to be able to offer the "quadruple play" of communication bundles--Internet, television, voice-over-IP and wireless telephony.
They will be augmenting this with a plan to use incentive auctions to repurpose spectrum that is currently in use by television broadcasters in favor of next-generation wireless services.
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You'll feel like the king of the castle when you relax in front of your mounted flat-screen television and stay plugged in with high-speed wireless Internet.
This year's contests include the largest-ever plasma screen (150 inches), the largest Organic Light-Emitting Diode TV (a new bright and energy-efficient screen), the first functioning laser television and the first TVs that receive high-quality wireless streaming from a high-definition signal.
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.
Advanced Info Service (otc: AVIFY - news - people ), Thailand's largest wireless-telecommunications firm, recently announced that it will offer broadcast network television on cell phones.
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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.
Connecting the PC to the television is made easy through two connectivity options which include both wired and wireless solutions to deliver video at up to 30 frames per second.
Fast forward twenty years, and to walk the streets of any city in the U.S. is to see Americans of all income classes listening to music, texting, searching internet sites, and watching television on small rectangular objects that also serve as the once much coveted wireless phone.
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Anne Sweeney , who runs the Disney-ABC Television Group, a unit of Walt Disney, grapples with stiff competition from wireless and cable.
The wireless chip and technology vendor is betting that if it constructs a nationwide network to stream television over cell phones, cellular carriers will sign on and consumers will clamor for the service.
Unlike streaming products that mirror video on both your computer and television, PLAiR streams only to the TV, lightening the load on your wireless network, which should reduce playback hiccups, according to the manufacturer.
There is active 3D television with goggles and loaner blu-ray discs, surround sound, multiple wireless tablets that control everything from lights to curtains to room service menus - in seven languages, internet radio with thousands of choices, free international phone calls, the list goes on and on.
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