Word: via
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Country Coach. "It's the best thing since sliced bread," jokes Joyce, referring to the wireless service, not her 12-ft. living room, full-size tub or double-door fridge. Nice amenities, but after two years on the road, they most cherish the spontaneous instant messages sent via the Internet from their 10-year-old granddaughter in California. That wasn't always possible before wi-fi. It used to be that they would wait for cheap evening rates on their mobile phone and then dial online through a cellular modem. Now the messages zip freely back and forth. "She writes...
...perfect wi-fi world, you wouldn't have such a hard time spotting the 18-in. antenna on top of San Bruno--because it would be the only one there. Theoretically, given enough unlicensed radio bands and megabits too cheap to meter, you could transmit via wi-fi all of today's broadcast TV and radio programs and every phone call (cellular or wired) as well--most of it free. That may sound like a tin-can-and-string utopia, but if the past 50 years of technology have taught us anything, it is this: never underestimate what geeks with...
GAMES TO GO Built for Microsoft's Xbox video-game machine, the MN-740 module lets you go online wirelessly and do battle against anyone, anywhere via...
SCALABLE TECH This prototype bathroom scale from IBM and Sunbeam records your weight and sends it via wi-fi to a PC, where you can track your diet with graphs and pie charts. Not for sale...
PALMTOP Sony's UX50 Clie can hop on any wi-fi network to access e-mail and the Web. Or if you're out of range but own a Bluetooth cell phone, it can get to the Net via a phone...