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...WIRELESS WAITRESS...
...handheld devices on which they message orders directly to the bar and the kitchen. Initially, the system didn't transfer well to the U.S. Most restaurants here offer many more choices, and prices change more often. San Diego software company Ameranth Technology may have solved the problem. Its wireless system allows communication between handhelds and fixed computers, so menus are instantly updated. Waiters can also process credit-card payments and print receipts right at the table--and even signal valet parking to fetch your car when you're ready to leave. Ameranth says the technology can be adapted...
...Wireless Internet services are especially hot, as companies and consumers try to circumvent the continent's dismal communications infrastructure. Fewer than 2 million Latin Americans use wireless Internet technology today, but the Washington-based Strategis Group forecasts that by 2007, 48 million will. That's a key reason Atlanta-based telecom giant BellSouth this summer spent $25 million for an 11% stake in StarMedia. It hopes to use the ailing multilingual Latin American Web portal as a launching pad for services like e-mail on mobile Internet--"for those epic traffic jams we all know so well in Sao Paulo...
...largest flourmaker, Maseca, wanted to exploit the government's recent deregulation of the tortilla industry, its delivery fleet needed instant access to warehouse data. Houston-based Compaq, which sent its new iPAQ pocket PC service south of the border this year, nailed a deal to put its handheld wireless devices in hundreds of Maseca drivers' pockets...
...since succumbed to emphysema. And there are other studies, too numerous to cite, which indicate one final, fatal similarity: cells and cigs are both carcinogenic. In the same way that, in 1954, cigarette companies formed the Tobacco Industry Research Committee to scrutinize the effects of cigarettes, so now are wireless companies commissioning similar studies on cell phones. Just as a hacking cough is today the sign of a misspent, rebellious youth, so will that tell-tale tumor behind your neck a half-century from now be the sign of a college career spent huddled outside the brick-and-ivy, talking...