Traditional owners of the airwaves -- from radio and television station owners to companies like Motorola that provide special-purpose communications systems -- may bitterly resist giving up some of their existing spectrum or being subjected to potential interference from competing users.
But concerns about driver distraction will prevent the automobile from becoming an all-purpose communications or entertainment center.
And while talking and walking may still be its primary function, the wireless phone itself is becoming more of an all-purpose communications platform, incorporating functions typically thought of as the exclusive domain of Internet-connected computers in the U.S. One major example likely to hit American shores in the coming year is an application known as Short Messaging Services.
Mr. Doornick says that SICO's purpose is communications and entertainment.
Microsoft did not elaborate on what purpose the communications have, or whether it stores or tracks the data, which includes machine identification numbers.
Data recorded included the frequency, form, duration, and general purpose of communications.
Automatic modulation classification (AMC) is of an utmost importance in this band for the purpose of communications monitoring; e.g., signal intelligence and spectrum management.
For the purpose of communications, the DTV receivers are required to extract the timing measurements and recover the frequency offset from the received signals, which result in a synchronization problem.
"This authority allows only the targeting, for foreign intelligence purposes, of communications of foreign persons who are located abroad," the factsheet reads.
Where surveillance was used, club personnel (e.g. sports trainers) used various non-standardised methods to record injuries, mainly for their own purposes (personal communications, 18 November, 2011).
The dedicated remote will be giving way shortly to the all-purpose handheld communications device; the new remote is just here to soften the blow for people not ready to make the change.
