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...love. But there are some very useful, innovative touches, like the jog dial stereo volume knob on the steering wheel. The biggest problem I had: it took several days to figure out how to set the clock. At one point I pressed the "OnStar" button that offers a wireless link to a central operator for nearly all GM cars these days, but the CTS is so new that even the technician at the other end of the line couldn't help...
...consumer, Michael Dell is your typical gadget geek. He carries a BlackBerry for messaging, he signed up for Microsoft's new XP operating system the minute it came out in October, and his Dell C400 Latitude notebook goes wireless--even at home...
...commonplace that Europeans and Japanese enjoy better wireless service than Americans. But the U.S. lags behind even most developing countries in one respect: the growth of cell-phone subscriptions vs. that of hard lines. In developing countries, where it's usually easier to install wireless connections than to lay cables, the number of new cell-phone customers has been soaring for years. "They skipped a whole stage of evolution," says Michael Erbschloe of Computer Economics, a technology-research company in Carlsbad, Calif. That's good news for companies like Verizon, which is part-owned by Vodafone, the world's most...
...into $500 style statements that failed miserably. But Cidco could breath life into this much maligned category with its Mivo 350, a $200 machine that lets people send and receive e-mail, view attached photos and get news updates for $15 a month. Best of all, it's wireless, so users can compute from their sofas and easy chairs...
...Worst Gamble Europe's big telecom operators are ultimately expected to lay out at least $230 billion upgrading their wireless networks for the latest 3G - or third generation - technology. Trouble is, they don't have that kind of cash on hand, so France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and others have piled up billions in debt in the teeth of a recession. And, oh yes, nobody's sure when 3G, which is supposed to allow true Internet access via your handset, is really going to work...