Word: downloaders
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Although Apple frowns on music-download hacks, it is delighted with the Palm-style stuff. The wildly popular address-book software has already been adopted, and similar programs may soon become part of the official iPod canon. The people wanted a digital organizer, and bit by bit, the people are getting one. Isn't democracy beautiful...
...about 90 m; you can't roam far from a base station without losing the connection. But blazing speed?data zips along at 11 megabits per second, more than five times faster than the transfer rate of planned 3G systems?makes Wi-Fi a practical way for commuters to download their e-mail while waiting for an airplane, a train or a client...
...store pilot program in Texas and Florida, the virtual-commerce, or Vcom, kiosks can cash checks and transfer money. The convenience-store chain is targeting the 9.5% of U.S. households that don't have bank accounts, as well as on-the-go Internet junkies who want to download driving directions while grabbing a Slurpee. For 7-Eleven's nationwide rollout later this year, Vcom users will be able to pay their Verizon bill and eventually have touch-screen access to event ticketing and online shopping...
Manufacturers are already starting to promote the idea of the residential gateway and introducing devices that would take advantage of it. Sony makes a digital TV set-top box with a built-in cable modem for Cablevision. Last November Sony unveiled its new WEGA TV, which can download programs from a wireless network hub. In January, Moxi Digital, a start-up, unveiled the Moxi Media Center, a network-ready set-top box with a built-in personal video recorder (think TiVo), DVD player, MP3 jukebox and a receiver for cable or satellite TV. EchoStar is expected to be the first...
...drive-up ATM that works with dashboard computers in certain cars. And at a conference last month in Singapore, Asian bankers had to sign a nondisclosure agreement before NCR would give them a glimpse of the future: Palm Pilots and cell phones communicating with a cardless ATM that can download games or MP3 tunes. The industry is banking on the notion that mobile professionals will still need a place to print documents and pick up data...