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...Wave Alliance found 72% of Americans say they would like the ability to monitor their home when they are gone. Nearly 34% of builders offered automation capability in 2005, according to the National Association of Home Builders. But the real breakthrough is the widespread availability of new wireless devices that can be placed in strategic locations...
NOTE: Due to technical difficulties involving the wireless internet signal in Lavietes Pavilion, the live blogging was halted at halftime...
DIED. Robert Adler, 93, physicist for Zenith who, with colleague Eugene Polley, invented the first commercially successful wireless TV remote control, sparking the couch-potato revolution; in Boise, Idaho. The tiny, elegant Zenith Space Command, which raised the price of TVs soon after it hit the market in 1956, was a vast improvement on its predecessors--one of which involved a long cord. In 1997 the gadget whose marketers once boasted, "Nothing between you and the TV but space!" won Adler and Polley an Emmy...
...Business School, a technological trick deactivates wireless when students are in lecture by linking up to their course schedules, and the Law School debated whether to adopt a similar policy last spring...
...Kajeet and others see a market in driving wireless tech to the SpongeBob set. "The major carriers design their service for Wall Street, not Main Street, and certainly not for its relevance to family life," says Neal. Telco giants have other motivations for not aggressively courting kid customers. "They want to avoid looking like Joe Camel and preying on children," said Roger Entner, a Boston-based wireless analyst with the Ovum research firm. "So they haven't done much more in this area other than create family plans...