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...wireless? Just ask Wall Street. Companies seen as harnessing its power have soared to astronomical valuations. Qualcomm, a leader in the digital wireless space, has watched its stock soar nearly 3000% in little more than a year. Finnish cell-phone maker Nokia, which was floundering in the early 1990s, has ridden the wireless juggernaut to become the eighth most valuable company on the planet (see accompanying story). Palm Inc. and AT&T's wireless tracking stocks were two of the most anticipated IPOs this year...
...precious hours last Tuesday, you could actually tell truth from fiction. All those fish stories you'd heard in recent months, the ones about friends and office pals with multiple thousands invested in the likes of Qualcomm and JDS Uniphase--were they true? Were real people actually soaring with the highflyers the way you'd dreamed of doing yourself...
...jealous viewers are living out their childhood fantasies--with a vengeance. At Bayside, Zack's cell was a sure symbol of status. Nobody thought, however, that shiny Nokias and compact Motorolas would ever be anything but a modern means of communication and another way to look cool. Nowadays, the Qualcomm QCP-1960, among other impressive cellular instruments, causes the onset of malignant brain tumors. With excessive use, of course...
...nine years. Instead she's signed with Kevin Huvane, the powerful Creative Artists Agency executive whose other clients include Tom Cruise. "Every agent in town called me," she explains. "I met with everybody, but [CAA] seemed to have the best game plan." Pricewise, her stock has risen quicker than Qualcomm's. She jokes that she was paid "about $75" for the low-budget Boys and figures her next paycheck will jump "a thousand percent...
Going digital was a much rockier road in the U.S., mainly because the FCC chose to let competing technologies duke it out in the market. The result: Qualcomm, Ericsson and others squabbled over whose standard would "win." None did, so we're left with a hodgepodge of incompatible networks and a gaggle of abbreviations (GSM, CDMA, TDMA, IDEN) that are not only confusing but also confining, restricting us to a particular carrier's coverage area and delaying the roll-out of advanced services...