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Whatever the distance ahead, the smart-phone era has already dawned. In Europe later this year, Nokia will begin selling its 9110 Communicator, a second-generation device about the size of a large mobile phone with a flip-top computer screen, capable of composing faxes, sending and reading e-mail and accessing the Internet. Alcatel, the French phone giant, is already marketing a phone called the One Touch Com, which has taken all the functions of a palm-size organizer, such as address book and scheduler, and installed them in a mobile handset small enough to slip in a shirt...
...Technologies, a privately held firm that envisions bouncing signals off a squadron of high-altitude planes circling above metropolitan areas. (Finding pilots may be a problem.) Angel execs say they'll be able to provide commercial Net access by 2000. Another scheme, from Sky Station, would employ blimps the size of football fields, tethered 14 miles above large cities. Last July, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) okayed the radio frequencies that the company will require...
Wouldn't it be great if you could call your friends or family, your boss or stockbroker--even while you're trekking in the Himalayas? If you didn't have to lug around one of those briefcase-size satellite phones, but instead had a cell phone just slightly larger than the one you carry now? How much of a premium would you be willing to pay for such convenience? Two American-based firms with a list of global backers that reads like a high-tech Who's Who are rolling the dice in a multibillion-dollar gamble that they...
...size of the College's eighth largest class,General Education 105, "The Literature of SocialReflection," has increased more than 30 percent to307 students. The course is taught by AgeeProfessor of Social Ethics Robert Coles...
...House storage, College policy dictates thatstudents are allowed to store up to six boxes ofone by one by two-foot size. In addition,oversized items such as couches, lamps and chairscan be stored to an unspecified amount...