Third-generation wireless (the first two were analog and the current version of digital) can move data at 384 kilobits a second, six times the speed of a good computer modem.

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Gauges and driver data are provided via an eclectic fusion of both analog and digital sources, with aviation-derived design cues.

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Within five years, says Jeff Jury , Ibiquity vice president, analog AM and FM radio signals will go digital, and carry data over the air as well as traditonal audio signals.

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Users connect their audio source to the player via analog audio input, and the player compares 15 seconds of waveform data with its internal "FingerPrints" database, matching the song up with its corresponding information from MusicID.

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