They can also transmit video, allowing for videoconferencing on cellphones.
At given intervals, it wakes up and begins to transmit video.
And in this election cycle, for the first time, they are able to edit and transmit video on the fly.
PanAmSat provides satellite capacity to TV-programming companies to transmit video feeds to local cable-TV services and broadcast stations.
The trade commission's ruling applied to chips that are used in high-end phones that can transmit video and data at high speeds.
The researchers say the resulting network would be fast enough to allow everyone in a meeting to receive and transmit video streams on their laptops simultaneously for videoconferencing.
But the system -- which can also be used to transmit video signals between televisions (useful if a VCR is hooked up to only one set) -- works remarkably well.
PRODUCTS that can transmit video, audio and other digital media throughout the house were everywhere at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month.
If nothing else, the dispute demonstrates that consumers have little, if any, idea how convoluted it can be to transmit video to a computer or mobile phone.
Yet the model is being ported to televisions too, whether through set-top boxes like Apple TV and Roku, or devices such as Google's Chromecast, which transmit video to the TV from the user's smartphone.
Riverstone said that China Netcom would use the equipment to transmit video and data to businesses and residents in Quanzhou, a city of 6.5 million in the Fujian province of China.
