... spread spectrum radios, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, fostered the development of today's wireless local area networks (WLANs). In the 1980's through the early 1990's, based on a partnership between Motorola and IBM, narrow band ultra high frequency (UHF) was utilized, yielding the first commercially available radios for wireless bar-coding this is also known as cellular digital packet data, familiar ... ...

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... graphics/text integration WAP is well on its way to making a comeback (Armor, 2002). WAP's Come Back: Enhanced Messaging Services (EMS) combines text and graphics and it uses a WAP browser. Motorola is coming out with a new flat-screen color display phone, which includes a camera as well as an MP3 player, supports MMS and EMS through the WAP 2.0 browser. This has paved ... ...

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... and the beginning of the new millennium were some advancements that helped speed up data communications. In ninety the first national wireless network, called ARDIS, was created by IBM and Motorola. Two years later in ninety-two the World Wide Web was introduced. By ninety-four it was estimated that 2 million computers were connected to the internet. In ninety five Microsoft ... ...

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