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Metrocall may be a maverick in confronting the sensitive issue of potential cell-phone health hazards, but the rest of the U.S. will soon catch up. Beginning this fall, Motorola, Nokia and all other cell-phone makers will bow to mounting concerns about safety by disclosing just how much radiation their phones emit. The once hard-to-find data--measured in "specific absorption rates," or SARs--will come packaged with the latest models, some of which could hit stores by Christmas. That is likely to launch a scramble by concerned shoppers to find the cell phones that...
Other companies announcing old-fashioned buybacks in the face of slumping shares include Sears and Nokia. And still others are engaging in buybacks as an alternative to paying dividends, sound from a tax view. Dividends are taxed as income; buybacks tend to lift a stock, which generates capital gains normally taxed at a lower rate...
Rossman is the guy behind WAP, or wireless application protocol. Like packet switching or HTML, it doesn't sound like much, but it's vitally important to the future of the Internet. WAP lays out the rules for squeezing the best of the Net onto that Nokia (or Ericsson or Motorola) in your pocket. Rossman left his native Paris, picked up an M.B.A. at Stanford, worked on the original Apple Macintosh, started three companies and sold one to AT&T before even thinking about WAP. But his best move was attending a 1994 wireless convention in Santa Clara, Calif., where...
...Like almost all mobile phones, my Nokia 6160 has a wonderful way of remembering phone numbers. Over the course of a year some of my most important numbers have ended up in the phone. The problem is that there's no way to get the personal phone book off the Nokia, despite an infrared port at one end that looks like it should be able to "beam" the numbers to a Palm or other infrared device. Unless, of course, I copy them out by hand...
...recap. Last year, everything was just fine. I was happy as I used my Nokia to order gourmet potato chips that I could afford because of my burgeoning portfolio. Now I'm staring down financial ruin, impending brain damage and an eerily complementary brain tumor. What a wonderful new century - I'm certainly glad I won't be around for the next...