Word: signalized
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...Saharan Africa and beam Internet access (albeit at high cost) to Internet cafes in developing countries. And digitized voice itself is efficient: A standard telephone Internet connection over the same wire that carries a single analog conversation can carry five or six equivalent digital conversations with minimal perceived signal degradation...
...somewhere in America and satellite offices in a wide variety of foreign countries: You call the American office, your voice is digitized, and then it’s sent over the Internet to, for instance, the office in Ghana, where it’s transformed back into a voice signal and connected at the cost of a local call...
...parlance of pop culture where “swallows” is quickly becoming as commonplace as “sucks,” they aren’t (except if you’re a Yalie). By blowing this small issue out of proportion, BGLTSA seems to signal that it will be just as aggressive in the future. This unnecessarily vehement peer pressure will promote unneeded self-censorship—relatively benign in this case, perhaps, but potentially a huge problem in an academic community based on free and open discourse, not on allowing groups of students to enforce...
...York City are soliciting bids from wireless contractors. This stuff is just too cheap and too useful not to have. It doesn't even stop at the city limits. Out in the sticks, where there are no skyscrapers to get in the way of a wi-fi signal, wireless is even bigger. There's a hot spot in rural Walla Walla County, Wash., that runs...
...Crilly, working with another HP engineer named Bob Conley, figured out a way to run a regular wi-fi signal through a phased-array antenna, a powerful piece of hardware that's used mostly by the military. Suddenly, they had a wi-fi hot spot a couple of miles wide. The world had never seen that before. If a regular wi-fi transmitter was a candle, this thing was a baseball-stadium spotlight. They called it, for reasons best known to themselves, Little...