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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Future Focus | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Future Focus | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

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