Exam 8: Wireless, Mobile Computing, and Mobile Commerce

Satellite transmission systems are widely used but are being replaced by microwave data communications systems.

________ transmission systems can have a large coverage area but are expensive.

________ transmission systems can have a large coverage area but encryption must be used for security.

________ technology enables the use of mobile wallets.

Throughput will always be less than the connection speed.

Suppose you go through your neighborhood to figure out how many wireless networks are unsecure. This is __________.

When shopping in the supermarket, Arianna notices that the cashier swipes each of the boxes of cookies she is buying over a scanning device and the scanner reads what is printed on the box, the price is recorded and added to her bill. The boxes of cookies have _________ that make this possible,

Suppose you use your university's computer lab to print your research papers. If this computer lab contains desktop computers that use a Wi-Fi hotspot to connect to the printer in the center of the room, it is a ________ lab.

Telemetry has limited mobile computing applications.

Firemen often use ________ to communicate with each other in burning buildings.

___ technology allows manufacturers to attach tags with antennas and computer chips on goods and then track their movement through radio signals.

The main problem with ________ transmission systems is their signals experience propagation delay.

Google Project Fi customers can set up their phones as a mobile Wi-Fi router and allow their laptops or tablets to surf the Internet on their phone's data connection at no extra charge. This process is called wireless ________.

You want to be able to track the pencils in your store because they seem to be disappearing. You would want to mark the pencils with ________.

The biggest problem with using wireless networks is ________.

People who set up rogue access points are always being malicious.

The MUrgency app was launched in 2015 in ________.

The police used Facebook and Fitbit data to question Richard Dabate's original statements explaining his wife's murder.

The adoption of ________ has been an important factor in the development of the Internet of Things.

________ satellites require medium-powered transmitters.