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...Bill Maggs slides behind the wheel of his Audi S4, his Palm is at work answering the critical question of the morning: Route 280 or 101? The PDA's wireless Etak Traffic Touch function surveys competing routes from his San Francisco home to his Silicon Valley office and beams down constantly updated reports on which one is less clogged. En route, Maggs is a flurry of wireless connectivity. He chats on his Motorola cell phone and answers e-mail on his Internet-enabled Palm. If he likes a song he hears on the radio, he can order it on Amazon...
...wireless industry insists progress is being made on all fronts. Service and screens are improving, it says. And wireless broadband is coming. Metricom, a company providing wireless modem connections to users in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, will be rolling out high-speed wireless by the end of the year. It is expected to take service to 120K or higher. And the industry says mobile 384K wireless (as fast as a high-speed DSL connection) should be available...
...Siliconns, a great tribe that dwelt in the valley beside the great western ocean, made the PDAs connect to one another. And there was much connecting and rejoicing, especially among the Startups, high priests and votaries of eyepeeoh, who controlled Heaven and Earth in the time when Lord Nazdak made men fat. And later, thin...
...recent years, much of higher education's focus has turned to technology, as emphasized by the recent selection of Silicon Valley entrepreneur John L. Hennessy as Stanford's next president. Rudenstine's successor may well lean towards fields of science and technology...
...face of war than any new weapons--so long as G.I.s don't drown in them. Gleaning information on the enemy's whereabouts remains challenging, which is why the Army is striving instead to track, on computers, the location of the good guys. If a unit in the valley below doesn't show up on your screen as a "friendly," you're free to attack it. And rather than spending 15 minutes using the time-consuming radio to call in fire through several layers of command, American troops will be able to send a request by secure e-mail...