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...joint venture, called Symbian, will license Psion's software as the underlying brains behind a new generation of smart devices, ranging from mobile phones that receive e-mail, surf the Internet and even pay for transactions, to laptop computers that can go online automatically without anyone's having to open the carrying case. Yet the battle between Symbian and the Microsoft camp is not just about who will make next year's cool gadgets. It promises to determine who will control the next era of personal communications...
...Even Bell Atlantic's Seidenberg has said, to FORTUNE magazine, that he foresees a world where, rather than pay for phone calls by the minute, "people will in effect just pay a subscription rate to have access to a network." And while all-you-can-talk (or watch, or surf) lines could be a dream for consumers, they will be a nightmare for the mega-Bells, which must add new subscribers faster than they lose revenue to new competitors and pricing pressures. Some firms, like AT&T, hope to find lucre in international markets, where telephone demand is growing...
...well as the mind's capacity to comprehend horror--the D-day landing on Omaha: seasick soldiers slaughtered the minute the ramps on their landing boats are lowered; other men clambering over the sides trying to avoid the fire, only to drown under the weight of their packs; the surf turning red with the blood of the slaughtered; some who make it to the narrow beach huddling immobilized yet pathetically vulnerable behind what little cover they can find. A few inch forward, hoping perhaps that being a moving target is safer than being a stationary...
...Games legitimize the pursuits of disaffected suburban youth. But not the truly disenfranchised. You have to be pretty tight with someone who owns a boat to learn to barefoot-waterski-jump, or have some serious spare cash to go up in a plane to sky-surf. These are the kinds of recreational activities that spring up when a nation hasn't been off to war in a long time...
...INTERNET This "is almost a requirement" for anyone seeking computer-literate employees, says Ken Dean, staffing manager for an Ericsson Inc. telecommunications facility in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park. Not only students but also many current workers who wonder whether they might find a better job elsewhere regularly surf the Web on their PCs to see what is available...