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...directly to the fixed-line network when they are in a Bluetooth-enabled zone. By so doing, they bypass the costlier mobile network and save big on their phone bills. Cost reductions are already being offered by Norwood Systems, a company in Richmond-upon Thames, England, which makes a wireless communications platform that allows wandering office workers to make telephone calls over the fixed network via Bluetooth headsets, for up to 60% less than calls made from a mobile phone inside the office. This can save $100-$125 a month per user on corporate mobile-phone bills. Once...
Harvard’s student-run radio station, WHRB, and hundreds of other college not-for-profit radio stations may be forced to stop wireless web streaming altogether if they are not exempt from the charges. Although the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act established the principle that the web was not exempt from royalty fees, it was only earlier this year that the Library of Congress Copyright Division set the actual fee, at seven-hundredths of a penny per song per person. At the same time, the library mandated that royalties be paid retroactively for all songs broadcast...
...encryption seems the most obvious use, its market, according to IDC, will probably be flat, because there are adequate options, like the program PGP (short for "pretty good privacy"), available free at web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html Instead, the main drivers of growth stand to come in the areas of database and wireless security...
...unprotected database can seem like Fort Knox compared with wireless communications. "On a wired or fiber system, there's a physical path that someone has to penetrate. With wireless, the geographic area and the technology to access it are much, much broader," says Noel Matchett, president of Information Security, based in Silver Spring, Md., and a former National Security Agency cryptographer...
...Most wireless handheld devices that communicate digitally include built-in encryption. More vulnerable, however, are the new Wi-Fi networks that allow wireless access within short ranges. The problem with these remarkably convenient wireless local-area networks (WLANS) is that the range is not short enough. As with the Seattle conference-hotel WLAN, anyone with an inexpensive wireless card can access wireless networks from as far as 500 yds. away. Owing to the ease with which they can be installed, wireless networks are among the few tech sectors that continue to grow, according to the Gartner research firm, which estimates...