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...Europe and the Pacific Rim--grass-roots wireless Internet service that is as accessible as any radio signal, and often as free--and figure out a way to make you pay for it. In the long run, Cometa aims to be nothing less than the Windows of business Wi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unwired: Will You Buy WiFi? | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...Wi-Fi stands for wireless fidelity, and the name is apt. Most who try it love it faithfully. No wonder: they are browsing the Internet on laptops untethered by cables, and at the high speed of 11 megabits a second--fast enough to let you watch a movie while you're downloading it. "I wasn't much of a surfer before," says Donna Gallagher, 37, an office manager and Wi-Fi fan in Wilmington, N.C. "Now I'm totally addicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unwired: Will You Buy WiFi? | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

When Mom wants her Celine Dion, Dad wants Placido and Johnny demands Ja Rule, it used to take three stereos to satisfy all. Now comes the Yamaha MusicCast, a wireless, digital home music system, out in June. MusicCast is based on the same Wi-Fi technology that powers many PC networks, using a server, CD player/recorder and hard drive to store hundreds of hours of music. Once downloaded from your CDs, music is sent to as many as seven small receivers, or clients. Five can be wireless, and each can power a pair of wired speakers. MusicCast can simultaneously transmit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Briefing: Mar. 24, 2003 | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...device are easy-to-use Web browsing and e-mail. Synching up with a PC to communicate is an ordeal that few should have to endure. If you want to go wireless, you'll have to either go through a Bluetooth-enabled phone or PC or buy the optional Wi-Fi card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three for the Road | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...processor, the TravelNote looks and performs like a normal laptop computer. The screen, however, swivels around and folds back over the keyboard, creating a writing slate. A stylus serves as both a pen for note taking, and as a mouse for operating programs. Using the machine's built-in Wi-Fi (wireless-fidelity) link, for example, you can write a URL into the Internet Explorer browser to visit a website from the comfort of your bed. Or you can draw a smiley face in a Word document. Shazam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Pencils, No More Bics | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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