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...they figure out how to make it work for particular businesses. VOIP's young upstarts have already caught the giants flat-footed. Major telephone companies, for example, dismissed VOIP as something too unwieldy for the average consumer. With Vonage now celebrating 1 million consumer subscribers, AT&T and Verizon are racing to offer competing services...
Tired of searching for "hot spots" at Starbucks to get high-speed wireless Web access on your laptop? That wi-fi era may be over, thanks to EV-DO, which stands for evolution data optimized. The new 3G technology, offered first by Verizon Wireless and now by others as well, uses a credit-card-size "antenna," which users slip easily into their PCs, allowing superfast broadband in areas covered by the phone companies. You can use it in moving vehicles, hotel rooms, even local parks and beaches. "It's a huge jump in technology," raved cybergadfly Matt Drudge earlier this...
...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...
...Mobile Snatchers. Ever since the beginning of commercial cell-phone services some two decades ago, mobile phones and mobile operators have gone together like railroad cars and railroad tracks. Handset vendors such as Nokia and Motorola provided about 2 billion phones to mobile operators like Vodafone, Orange and Verizon, which in turn put them in the hands of consumers who pay to transmit calls over the operators' mobile networks. Indeed, many operators subsidized the handset business, picking up the cost of the phones as a loss leader that would be more than made up by charging consumers...
...positioning itself at the center of the technology-driven environment its audience inhabits. TurboNick, launched several weeks ago on a broadband video platform on Nick.com lets kids watch full-length episodes of their favorite Nick shows online, sometimes even before they air on cable. Through a deal with Verizon Wireless, Nick loyalists can download three-minute videos of Blue's Clues or other shows on their mom or dad's cell phones. Even the family car is now a Nick zone: in a partnership with General Motors, episodes of Nick's series are programmed into GM Chevy Uplander SUVs equipped...