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