The bay stations then send the signals over existing telephone lines. PCSI considers the Connect award genuine kudos, since the Japanese are considered deft leaders in the consumer communications and electronics markets. Since winning the 1995 award, PCSI has announced a second-generation chipset. Semiconductor designers are racing to perfect a chip that integrates all the separate functions needed for a cordless phone, such as the baseband processor and the radio-frequency converter. No one's solved the puzzle yet, but makers are striving for more integrated chipsets.
Fewer chips means smaller handsets, less power consumption and a lower manufacturing price.
For decades we've heard about the paper-less office, and pondered it while pumping out reams of agenda photocopies for the meeting five minutes away. With Intranets in use, the smell of the pipe dream wafts a little closer. Jae Evans, president and founder of Azron, says that his Electronic Medical Records system does away with paper medical charts. The system is protected by passwords and encryption, so that confidentiality of patient records is protected. The history of an AIDS patient, for example, cannot be viewed by an unauthorized practitioner.