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...things should get more interesting in 2006, when BT and other providers add hybrid wi-fi/cellular phones. At least four of the largest mobile-handset vendors - Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and LG - are known to be preparing such devices, which will bring wi-fi phoning more into the mainstream. "2006 will be a big year for [mobile] wi-fi," predicts Nokia senior vice president Ilkka Raiskinen, noting that wi-fi will become a standard feature in Nokia's multimedia and business phones next year, and that by 2006 Nokia will put it into many midrange models (it currently offers...
...celebrate Hispanic leaders. Gone are the days when the phrase "influential Hispanic" seemed to be an oxymoron. Perhaps the most potent indicator of our group's ascension is the emergence of new national leaders. Until recently Hispanic culture was largely relegated to the barrio and backwoods. Today's mainstream reception of Hispanics is a promising sign that the U.S. may soon recognize and honor individual Hispanic subcultures and the astounding diversity that exists within the Latino community...
...Coates off base and offensive in his piece about his disenchantment with black music, "Black Guy, White Music" [Aug. 22]. To suggest that an entire genre of music has not grown and evolved just as its listeners have is simply uneducated. There is more to hip-hop than the mainstream media choose to embrace. There is a whole world of music, from rapper Talib Kweli to hip-hop poet and singer Saul Williams, that isn't a painful "audio beat down." I have a hard time with labels like black music and white music. Why can't people just listen...
...part of HANSON'S Live and Electric Tour '05, the one-hit wonders will visit colleges to lecture on the music business and "their quest to succeed outside the mainstream." Will there be an Mmm-pop quiz...
...noted that Muslims, of which she is one, need to admit that Islam might be motivating suicide bombers [Aug. 1]. As a Muslim, I find it not only refreshing but also encouraging to read an article that challenges what Manji referred to as a "dangerous denial from which mainstream Muslims need to emerge." Perhaps other Muslims will follow Manji's lead and be less hesitant to create a much needed bridge of "cross-cultural understanding." Sara Sadik London...