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Most companies happily depend on underground fiber-optic lines for the high-speed transmission of voluminous data. So providers of wireless technologies have had a hard time gaining market share. But the World Trade Center tragedy has unexpectedly given them a chance to show off their wares. Because the fiber-optic lines in lower Manhattan were damaged, Merrill Lynch turned to Seattle-based Terabeam, which provides laser transmitters (like the one below) that connect individual offices to the data network. The devices, trained on each other through windows, can send a gigabit of information per second--600 times faster than...
...operators need to better handle multimedia applications for big corporate customers. Communications infrastructure firms like Acti-Via are one of the strengths of France?s tech sector. Another French strength: optics and microelectromechanical systems (mems), machines too small to see with the human eye, used for industrial purposes like wireless network equipment. These kinds of French tech companies have global potential, says Sven Lingjaerde, head of the European Tech Tour Association, but only if they can build experienced management teams and get international expansion right. Whether they can do all this exclusively from France is still an open question...
...Forward Spin: Nokia is clearly feeling the impact of the worldwide economic slowdown. But if Ollila is right, wireless and broadband will be the drivers that will restore growth to the tech industry...
...outbid American phone giant Bell Atlantic for control of AirTouch Communications, then turned around and hooked up with Bell Atlantic to combine both companies' wireless networks in the U.S. under the Verizon umbrella...
ShuttleGirl fans need not fear however. While a notice on the original site, www.shuttlegirl.com, informs users that it hasn’t been updated with current information, it worked as well as Shuttletime in a series of scientific tests. And with Delvecchio working full time on Second Kiss Wireless, Inc., the company that formed from the duo’s development of ShuttleGirl technologies, something equally exciting is bound to materialize. “We’re working on something to replace the fun of ShuttleGirl,” Karamchandani notes cryptically. “If it all goes...