The deal includes IP related to 2G, 3G and LTE technologies, and will give Unwired Planet significantly more ammunition in its various legal battles against Apple (x2), Google and RIM over patent infringements (one of the suits, against RIM and Apple, was dropped at the ITC but Unwired Planet intends to reopen it in Delaware).
Dr. Pinhanez, a research scientist at I.B.M.'s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., leads the development of the Everywhere Displays projector, a technology that could one day transform surfaces like walls and windows into active yet unwired touch screens.
"Austin is the freest unwired city in the world," Mr. MacKinnon said, sitting in BookPeople, a large bookstore, with a fellow project leader, Jon Lebkowski, a technology consultant.
That is to say that technology has widened the gap between the haves and have-nots -- increasingly synonymous with the wired and the unwired.
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It's time to get unwired.
Unlike, say, bankers, medics are woefully unwired.
So how does the speed stack up against wired and unwired competitors?
The WebTV chair sells for $1,049 to $1,299, compared with $299 to $1,800 for unwired models.
By leaving parts of the state unwired, she said, "we're creating pockets of economic discrimination".
But in many agencies, there is a digital divide between wired and unwired.
