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...drawback, as with all new tech toys, is the price. Verizon, which spent $1 billion to upgrade its lines and now offers the service in more than 50 cities, charges $80 a month, along with a one-time hardware fee of $150, occasionally minus rebates or company discounts. Sprint launched its EV-DO service in some airports and business areas this summer, hoping to cover 60 cities by mid-2006, while Cingular and T-Mobile are offering their 3G variations, with smaller coverage areas, slower speeds and other disadvantages. On the plus side: you'll save money on expensive coffee...
Spira has also carved a niche among people with foot ailments. But in the athletic market, which gives a sneaker stature, Spira is still near the starting blocks. Runners won't sprint to pay $130, the cost of a high-tech Spira, for a brand they have never heard of. Plus, the sneakers aren't dashing. "They're ugly," says Andy Krafsur. Spiras are in 700 retail shops, but they didn't test well at Foot Locker, the 4,000-store giant. "We need to establish ourselves in the small stores where people explain the technology," says Krafsur. "That...
...Florida, by comparison, emergency officials across the state are linked by a system of satellite telephones, and the lines of authority between local and state officials are sharp. And in Texas, ham operators have a place at the table in the emergency bunker in Austin along with the high-tech communications experts...
...base with his iPod, before launching a rival company. So what's the company IT boss to do? Squeezing superglue into USB ports (as some have done) is no long-term fix. The devices should be "prohibited where confidential information could leak out," says David Friedlander, senior analyst at tech consultants Forrester Research EMEA in Amsterdam. Some security-minded organizations have done just that. Britain's Ministry of Defence has outlawed the gadgets on certain sites. But software makers can help out, too. Centennial has seen interest in specialized products from government, military and financial services firms spike in recent...
...billion in voice revenue that London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says mobile operators will generate in 2010. The revelation in August that Google will begin providing free voice transmissions over computers, and Microsoft's announced acquisition last week of the VoIP start-up Teleo, show that the biggest tech players are not going to sit this game out. For some companies, that will be liberating. "Making calls from a mobile handset is no longer the preserve of just the mobile operator," says Ryan Jarvis, head of convergence products for British mobile and fixed-line provider BT. Because BT only...