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Voicestream is the most recent in string of cellular providers who have set up shop in the Square. Within a few blocks of the store are Cingular Wireless, located at 22 Eliot Street, and Sprint PCS, which is at the corner of Church and Brattle Streets. Both stores have had little trouble finding customers, especially the Sprint branch, which has proved to be a goldmine for the company. Mark Duncan, Director of Marketing for New England, couldn’t be more pleased. “We are very happy,” he says...
...Street is skeptical because both companies have become so focused on making PCs--by now a commodity on the order of a television set--and looked so bruised after more than a year of recession in that industry, that this sudden embrace smacked of deathbed desperation. "This is not a case of 1+1=2," says Todd Kort, principal analyst for Wall Street's Gartner Research. "More like...
...dislike some other things too. The installation took an hour, and unlike previous upgrades, you actually have to sit there for most of it, answering questions. Also, you can install XP on only one machine. If you have other PCs, you will need to buy more copies. (Microsoft is coming up with a multiuser pack; pricing hasn't been announced...
...preview version of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows XP, almost two months ago. And Ol' Sparky rarely seizes up now. Before XP, my computer tended to crash about three times a day, which is probably par for most hard-core users of Windows 95, 98 and ME. Most PCs crash as frequently as bumper cars. If Windows XP did nothing more than increase stability, I'd gladly pony up my $99 for an upgrade when it arrives in retail stores Oct. 25. Bad news for my checking account: Windows XP does more than make PCs stable...
Dozens of institutions, from cafes to lumbering corporations, have already made it possible to link PCs and notebooks to the Internet without wires. If you have the right expansion card on your laptop, you can walk into a Starbucks in New York City today and, for a small fee, browse the Net over a high-priced cup of coffee. This revolution has also made its way into airport terminals and the homes of technophiles sick of tripping over cables...