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Mobitex
a framework for the fixed equipment necessary to support all the wireless terminals in a packet-switched, radio-based communication system. The three major components of a Mobitex network are the radio base station, the MX switch, and the network management center (NCC). Mobitex was developed...
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Jun 19, 2006
Voice over Wi-Fi nets big buzz at Interop
Voice over Wi-Fi was a major buzzterm flying around Interop this week, whether it was vendors rolling out tools to manage it or demos of technology that will eventually let users take advantage of the technology. May 10, 2006
PalmSource to aim OS at cell phones
PalmSource is planning to update version 5.0 of its Palm operating system to target cell phones...
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Sep 29, 2003
Cell phone tops list of hated innovations
An annual MIT survey, known as the Lemelson-MIT Invention Index, found that among American adults asked what invention they hate most but can't live without, 30% said the cell phone...
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Jan 21, 2004
Banning phones on planes doesn't work
According to one industry observer, it isn't the airlines that have a problem with cell phone use on planes; it's the wireless carriers. In the air, a cell phone attempts to connect to a carrier's network using...
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Apr 22, 2004
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single stream 802.11n
Single-stream 802.11n is a slimmed-down version of the unratified 802.11n wireless local area network (WLAN) specification. The goal of single-stream 802.11n is to improve the quality of service on mobile devices by taking advantage...
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Apr 6, 2009
distributed antenna system (DAS)
DAS) is a way to efficiently distribute wireless connections inside a large building or urban area where steel columns and layers of concrete can interfere with wireless signals. A DAS gets rid of "dead zones" by routing radio frequency (RF) signals from a base station over fiber or copper cabling to multiple...
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Mar 17, 2009
Open System Authentication (OSA)
wireless modem can access any WEP network and receive files that are not encrypted.
For OSA to work, the service set identifier (SSID) of the computer should match the SSID of the wireless access point. The SSID is a sequence of characters that uniquely names a wireless local area network (WLAN). The process occurs in... More... Sep 30, 2008
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