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...mobile devices. When a plane reaches 10,000 feet, three WiFi access points hidden in the cabin's ceiling are activated, so that most wireless devices with Flash browsers or Wi-Fi-enabled laptops can connect to Yahoo Messenger or Mail, which can also be used to send text messages to mobile phones. (Sorry, Gmail and other e-mail services won't work.) BlackBerry handsets will also work just as they do on land. The radios onboard the plane monitor the 100 cell towers around the U.S., looking for the one with the strongest signal. As the plane flies...
...fact, the technology has already been demonstrated in the Chinese capital. New York-based Paul Notzold recently traveled to Beijing where he used L.A.S.E.R. Tag to create a kind of performance art, encouraging pedestrians to send text messages to a central phone hooked up to his laptop. The text messages were then projected onto the Millennium Art Museum. "I was tentative about putting up unsanctioned messages on buildings, because of the government," Notzold says. "There were your typical radio shout-outs, and there were also some statements that could be kind of activist protest statements." The event took place without...
...naming the iphone the Best Invention of 2007, you forgot about Windows-based PDA phones [Nov. 19]. Touch interface? Big deal. As you noted, it's been done before. A miniaturized operating system? Done. Windows-based phones are everything the iPhone is and more. The phones can text, mms, email (through pop, imap and Exchange), surf the real Web at broadband speed on evdo networks and open, edit and save documents. The iPhone is for kids. Windows Mobile pda phones are for adults who need to do real work. Eagle Bear Morgan, Seattle...
ROBERTS I'll make a couple of calls, and I'll text...
...reading. He took courses in relativity, cosmology and Yiddish fiction. Nine years later, he was finished. "Honestly, I don't know why I wrote so much," he says. His Dutch publisher made him delete 120 pages of footnotes. He worked many of them, largely scientific explanations, into the main text, making the book a translator's nightmare. "Later, when the book was being translated into English, I saw a sample," he says. "It was excellent, but I didn't recognize my voice. Until then I hadn't realized I had a voice! So I did 30 pages myself and sent...