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| Chip technology that enables short-range connection (data and voice) between wireless devices |
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| Phones that provide two-way radio communications over a cellular network of base stations with seamless handoffs |
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| global positioning system (GPS) |
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| A wireless system that uses satellites to enable users to determine their position anywhere on earth |
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| A small geographical perimeter within which a wireless access point provides service to a number of users |
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| A type of wireless transmission that uses red light not usually visible to human eyes |
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| location-based commerce (L-commerce) |
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| Mobile commerce transactions targeted to individuals in specific locations, at specific times |
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| A network composed of motes in the physical environment that “wake up” at intervals to transmit data to their nearest neighbor mote |
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| A wireless system that uses microwaves for high-volume, long-distance, point-to-point communication |
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| mobile commerce (m-commerce) |
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| Electronic commerce transactions that are conducted with a mobile device |
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| A real-time connection between a mobile device and other computing environments, such as the Internet or an intranet |
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| A portal that aggregates and provides content and services for mobile users |
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| A technology that allows users to make purchases with a single click from their mobile devices |
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| near-field communications (NFC) |
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| The smallest of the short-range wireless networks, designed to be embedded in mobile devices such as cell phones and credit cards |
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| personal area network (PAN) |
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| A computer network used for communication among computer devices close to one person |
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| A computer environment where virtually every object has processing power together with wireless or wired connections to a global network |
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| Any delay in communications due to signal transmission time through a physical medium |
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| radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology |
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| A wireless technology that allows manufacturers to attach tags with antennas and computer chips to goods and then track their movement through radio signals |
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| Uses radio-wave frequencies to send data directly between transmitters and receivers |
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| A wireless system that beams uninterrupted, near CD-quality music to your radio from satellites |
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| A wireless transmission system that uses satellites for broadcast communications |
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| The wireless transmission and receipt of data gathered from remote sensors |
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| A computer environment where virtually every object has processing power together with wireless or wired connections to a global network |
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| A high-bandwidth wireless technology with transmission speeds in excess of 100 Mbps that can be used for applications such as streaming multimedia from, say, a personal computer to a television |
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| A Web site with an audio interface |
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| Telecommunications in which electromagnetic waves carry the signal between communicating devices |
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| An antenna connecting a mobile device to a wired local area network |
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| Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) |
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| A set of standards for wireless local area networks based on the IEEE 802.11 standard |
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| wireless local area network (WLAN) |
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| A computer network in a limited geographical area that uses wireless transmission for communication |
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| wireless sensor networks (WSN) |
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| Networks of interconnected, battery-powered, wireless sensors placed in the physical environment |
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