Word: yaish
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...that provides 10 times the bandwidth of wi-fi. Although UWB signals don't travel as far as wi-fi, they travel far enough to beam Bridget. One of the leaders in this potentially lucrative field is Tel Aviv-based Wisair. The company's founder and chief executive David Yaish touts a variety of applications for his chips; a phone outfitted with UWB could download songs and videos from the same living-room server. Digital and video cameras outfitted with UWB could transfer their contents to home PCs, sans wire. Not only does UWB handle larger files faster than...
...Like many consumer technologies, UWB started out as military technology, used for communications that avoided eavesdroppers by spreading over a very wide range of frequencies. Yaish, 39, became familiar with it when he served in the Israeli army in the early '90s as a wireless specialist. Today, he and other UWB proponents are honing a standard they hope will assure that all UWB devices communicate in the same way. Wisair is part of a large contingent backing one proposed standard, while Freescale, the chip company carved out of Motorola, backs another. The existence of competing standards means that market forecasts...
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