dth effects, 338 ARM (Advanced Risc Machines), 178-9, Bandwidth efficiency, 15, 57, 63, 70, 87, 116, 240, 259-60, 280, 338, 369-70, 373, 377 ASICS Application Specific Integrated Bar codes, 360 Circuits, 165 BAR devices, see also FBAR, 148 ASK (Amplitude Shift Keying), 355, 357 Bardeen, John, 23, 171 ASK, 357 Barium Strontium Titanate (BST), 152 Astra, 330 Barker Sequence, 63-4 Asymmetric loading, 70, 106, 181, 282 Base station costs, 100 Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), 70 Baseband algorithmic innovation, 164 AT and T, 10, 109, 270, 286, 288, 297, 315 Batteries, 53, 139, 175 ATC hybrid satellite networks, 292, 324, BAW devices, 147-8 328-30 Bayer 'checkerboard', 188 Atheros, 75, 82, 288 Bayer pattern, 188 ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), Bazalgette, Sir Joseph, 267-8 282-3, 343-4, 346 BBC, 22, 131, 167-8, 218, 255, 273, 275-6, ATM, 343 279, 295, 315, 366, 386 ATSC (US TV standard), 102-3, 112, 144, BBC iPlayer, 169, 273 168-70, 282, 284, 288, 291-2, 295-7 Bell Laboratories, 25, 37, 130, 315 Audio Coding, 131, 181, 191, 212, 277, 378 Bell, Alexander Graham, 24, 36, 125, 130 Autocracy, 245 Berliner, Emile, 131 Autoexposure, 220-221 Bezout, 57 Autofocus (AF), 196 Bidirectional communications channel, 70 Automated face recognition algorithms, Bidirectional connectivity, 74, 159, 190, 254 Big Ben, 218-20, 222 Automated spatial and temporal metadata, Big TV, 167 Binary arithmetic, 61 Automatic Computing Engine, 237-8 Bistable displays, 137 Automatic metadata, 218, 222 Blended bandwidth, 373-4, 378 Index Blocking, 190 Canal analogy, 244 Blu Ray DVD, 169, 203 Canal+, 199 Blue lasers, 169 Candelas, 136 Bluetooth, 73, 78, 107, 112, 162, 179, 204, Candescent, 134 347, 350, 359, 361, 365, 378-9 Canon Camcorder, 201, 203 BOM (bill of materials), 122, 140-141 Capacity and coverage, 7, 37, 43, 115-16 Boolean operations, 215 Capex and Opex, 263 Bosch, 306 Capital amortization, 242 Bozo, Jeff, 137 Carr, Mike, 272 BPSK (Binary Phase Shift Keying), 357, 361 Cathode ray tube, 134, 167 Branson, Richard, 269 Cauchy, 58 Brattain, Wa