Word: clouded
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George Polk has rattled cell-phone carriers once before. The American, 42, runs a network of wi-fi hot spots called the Cloud that allows laptop and gadget users to surf the Web for around $8.50 an hour or $17 a month at 7,500 cafés, hotels, pubs, airports and other public places in Britain, Germany and Sweden. That's a service that cell-phone companies like Vodafone and Orange are struggling to sell via their 3G mobile-phone networks. Wi-fi, which uses low-cost, wireless Internet connections, has stolen some of the thunder. "I wanted to build...
...warming up for his next disruptive act, hitting mobile operators where they really hurt: in the voice business. Polk is prodding consumers and businesses to make cheap Internet-based VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls through the Cloud's hot spots. VOIP has already eaten into the traditional fixed-line business. It's now poised to do the same thing to mobile operators, threatening to take a chunk of what London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says will be a $550 billion mobile-voice business by 2010. Polk volleyed in July, when he partnered with VOIP champion Skype...
...scenes technology provider, wrangling wi-fi phone traffic that a mobile-phone company would front. Next up: the games and entertainment sector. In November, Polk struck a deal with Nintendo that lets owners of the wi-fi-- equipped Nintendo DS game machine play networked games for free at the Cloud's hot spots. Guess whose business stands to get disintermediated? Forecast for the mobile-phone industry: partly Cloudy...
...Tale of the Closeted Headmaster? John cloud stated that because Harry Potter's headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, was outed posthumously, "We can only conclude that Dumbledore saw his homosexuality as shameful" [Nov. 5]. I'd like to suggest a much more radical conclusion: Dumbledore saw his homosexuality as irrelevant. So do I. Sexual preference is only one component of the wonderful, complex beings that we are. Leading an exemplary life and being of service to others are much more important to me than introducing myself by saying, "Hi, I'm Jennifer, and I'm a lesbian." Jennifer P. Jonsson, Dallas...
...Potter story is about Harry and his best friends working together to fight evil. It is not a p.c. statement about sexuality. It is not Harry and the Angry Inch. J.K. Rowling's story started as a children's book and evolved into teenage reading material. That is it. Cloud is gay and proud, which is fantastic. But as Grey's Anatomy's T.R. Knight said, "I hope being gay is not the most interesting part about me." I am sure Dumbledore thought the same thing. Kristy van den Herik, Arlington, Mass...