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...City of Brotherly Love wants to bring its citizens closer together--virtually--and plans to cover its 135 sq. mi. with free wireless Internet access by June 2006. Philadelphia will not be the first. Spokane, Wash., and Grand Haven, Mich., have already gone wi-fi. But Philly is the first major city to try joining their ranks. Dianah Neff, Philly's chief information officer and the instigator of the project, says the main objective is to bridge the digital divide in her city. "For Philadelphia to come into the 21st century," she says, "we must have affordable high-speed Internet...
...Indeed, there's ample evidence that music could become a lucrative new market for companies like KDDI. Sales of ring tones reached $4.1 billion worldwide last year, according to Strategy Analytics, proving that consumers are predisposed to wireless downloading, even if the product is little more than synthetic song snippets. Technical barriers are disappearing, too: as more carriers upgrade to 3G systems, sluggish data-transfer rates are becoming a thing of the past (songs can be transferred in as few as 30 seconds via 3G networks). The capacity of phones to store music remains a problem, but that's being...
...certain the industry can repeat its camera-phone coup. For mobile music-download services to take off, business models have to be developed and pricing for songs settled. Many consumers may prefer to transfer tunes already stored in their home computers to their phones, instead of paying high wireless fees to download music. Devices sporting hard drives may be too complex and expensive for the masses. Most important, record companies must embrace the idea?and so far labels seem concerned that wireless downloading will spread music piracy. For example, earlier this year South Korean record labels and three cellular providers...
...toll call revenue by making phone calls cheaper and, on the one hand, more Ghanaians can afford to talk to their relatives overseas more often at Internet cafes; but on the other hand, more Ghanaians have to wait longer before they can have telephones in their home, or before wireless phone service can be deployed in their area...
...knew was that while I was growing up, my world revolved around Mom. My family is small, but it’s sturdy. And while I’m barely 300 miles away from our New York apartment, thanks to the world of wireless technology, her world can still revolve around...