| Wireless technology has literally changed our lives. | | | | WiMAX network reach over 30 miles. It literally |
| This up and coming method of communication has | | | | spans the length of metropolitan areas, and thus |
| literally changed the way we live. Many of us | | | | with WiMax, you'll no longer have to search for |
| cannot imagine a day without using a wireless | | | | hot spot sign. Check out for more information |
| device. In fact, we use them so much, that we | | | | about this up and coming form of wireless |
| barely recognize them as wireless anymore. | | | | technology. |
| Telephone lines were originally designed to send | | | | Bluetooth has become a mysterious wireless |
| news reports. Ever heard of getting something | | | | term to non-geeks, but its quickly becoming a |
| over the wire? Journalists still refer to their | | | | household word thanks to its technology in cellular |
| Associated Press reports as coming over the AP | | | | phones. Bluetooth basically is a way to connect |
| wire, though they most likely travel through the | | | | hardware. The hope is that instead of seeing a |
| air like all other pieces of information. The | | | | mass of cords behind your television, you'll just |
| invention of the radio demolished the idea of | | | | have the necessary blue tooth hardware, a |
| news sent over a wire. In fact, it completely | | | | wireless connection that connects your DVD |
| destroyed the concept of the telegraph and | | | | player to your television. Everyone hates those |
| eventually the landline telephone. | | | | mass of wires, or any mass of wires that |
| Computer networking works in a similar manner. | | | | threatens to ruin the aesthetics of a room, and |
| Who would choose an immobile stationary system | | | | Bluetooth has the potential to improve the look of |
| over a wireless one? Why would you choose to | | | | just about any system. |
| actually be chained to a desk when you could | | | | Eventually wireless technology will make life |
| move freely about, accessing the internet and | | | | simpler. We'll be able to do things in places that |
| other files on a network from the comfort of a | | | | we never imagined before. After all, who would |
| couch, a recliner, or a coffee shop. Additionally, | | | | think that you could contact a person from |
| while many believe that wireless costs more, this | | | | across the globe while sitting in a cafe across |
| price too is going down, and soon anyone will be | | | | town, with no cost to either of you. Grandparents |
| able to afford a wireless connection. | | | | in California can talk to their grandkids in Florida |
| WiMAX, short for Worldwide Interoperability for | | | | while soaking in the rays on the beach. I predict |
| Microwave Access, is steadily making its way | | | | that not only will wireless make life simpler in the |
| unto the wireless market. Its biggest advantage | | | | future, but that we'll function with it so smoothly, |
| lies in the distance that it spans. Instead of a | | | | that we won't even notice the wireless |
| wireless connection reaching a few meters, it will | | | | technology. |
| reach kilometers. Currently some of the strongest | | | | |