Word: cellular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time is no small feat, but thinking of one just ahead of its time can often be the bigger challenge (just ask John "Newton" Sculley and Steve "NeXT Computer" Jobs). Back in 1994, when Alain Rossmann launched Unwired Planet to develop software for sending Internet news and information to cellular phones, he could only hope the industry would follow his lead sooner rather than later...
...deregulation bringing as many as six new players to each wireless market and the industry upgrading from analog to digital (and adding data capabilities to every phone), Rossmann's timing looks impeccable. Earlier this month, Unwired Planet closed a deal with Qualcomm, which should be rolling out digital cellular phones that can receive news, weather and stock info with UP's software by late this year. "We know we've won when this technology becomes an expected feature, not a curiosity," says UP vice president Ben Linder. At the rate UP is going, managing a portfolio and checking E-mail...
...controversy over the Gingrich tapes has served as a reminder that the law is being broken when we listen to cellular telephone conversations we aren't supposed to hear. So, those of us who have been trapped near a cell-phone shouter want to know: Why isn't the law being broken when we're forced to hear cellular telephone conversations we don't want to listen...
Imagine that the true spirit of the season infused our people. Imagine that the rush for the 64-bit sensation Spatterguts III dissipated, that the latest digital-audio-video-cellular phenomenon inflicted carpal-tunnel syndrome on shoppers as they whipped out credit cards. Our consumer-electronics industry took in $6.7 billion in sales last December--nearly 15% of its total sales. What would happen to the game designers, the assemblers, the shippers and the clerks in all those consumer-electronics stores? Unemployment, thank you very much...
...send E-mail, in care of porter@christdesert.org Remote as they may seem, the brothers of Christ in the Desert are plugged into the Internet. Using electricity generated by a dozen solar panels and a fragile data link through a single cellular phone, the monks have developed a heavily trafficked Benedictine home page and started a new business designing and maintaining other people's Websites. The order's work has even caught the eye of the Holy See. Last month Webmaster Brother Mary Aquinas flew to Rome for consultations and to lend a hand building what the Vatican hopes will...