Its giant banks cannot electronically process online transactions, because their account-management computers are incompatible with Internet communications protocol.
"I think I lost six months of my life being sent to meetings to argue about a communications protocol, " says Barra.
The Starr Labs AirPower relies on a proprietary 2.4GHz communications protocol, enabling MIDI guitarists to finally get their groove on without worry over cable ejections.
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Metcalfe started 3Com (nasdaq: COMS - news - people ) to peddle his speedy communications protocol, Ethernet, after a risk-averse Xerox balked.
The software company claimed that it invented and marketed the identity platform and communications protocol that resellers can use to unify contact information on the Internet.
Founded in 1984, Cisco makes a wide range of switches and other components for Internet protocol communications.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Atlanta's police chief Friday said last week's deadly courthouse shooting and the subsequent manhunt for a suspect points to the need for improvements in communications and leadership protocol during emergencies.
While the iPhone is offered by carriers around the globe, all of them rely on the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) protocol.
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Peter Thermos, chief technology officer of Palindrome Technologies , proved the point onstage: He played snippets of conversations recorded by snooping on VoIP calls, exploiting vulnerability in a common element in VoIP communications known as media gateway control protocol.
As expected, Skype and Avaya are joining hands by linking their Internet Protocol (IP)-based communications systems.
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced plans to acquire media-streams.com, a privately held Swiss software developer, which makes communications applications based on Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.
On Wednesday, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) announced plans to acquire media-streams.com, a privately held Swiss software developer, which makes communications applications based on Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology.
Credit card companies are working with CyberCash and Netscape Communications to develop and implement the new Secure Electronic Transaction protocol for online credit card commerce.
ZigBee is a protocol that works on the 802.15.4 spectrum (WiFi is also known as 802.11 for its slice of spectrum.) As a short-range, low-power protocol, ZigBee is suited for two-way communications among small devices, and can be used to build self-organizing networks of devices.
In a Thursday afternoon presentation titled "Hacking Capitalism" at the Black Hat conference, a gathering of computer security experts, they detailed weaknesses in applications using Financial Information eXchange Protocol, or FIX, a common language used in communications between banks and commercial markets.
The protocol then automatically sets up a tunnel over IPv4 to carry communications to other users with IPv6 addresses.
Hold the phone: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers are worried that the U.S Federal Communications Commission might be about to saddle them with some potentially damaging regulation.
Jawbone ICON for Cisco Bluetooth Headset will intelligently bridge mobile phones and Internet Protocol (IP) phones in a way that is transparent to users and extends unified communications beyond the walls of the workplace.
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