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...networking technology goes, wireless Internet, or wi-fi, is hard to beat: it enables you to surf the Web from your living-room couch or send e-mail from a coffee-shop armchair. The trouble is that wi-fi's range only extends a few dozen meters, so once you leave home-or when it's closing time at your neighborhood Starbucks-you're back in the Stone Age. Logging on through commercial wi-fi hotspots can also be cumbersome and expensive. But a Spanish company, FON, wants to change all this. Founded 15 months ago, FON touts itself...
...Cingular AT&T rejoins the wireless world...
What's in a name? Three years after Cingular purchased AT&T Wireless, the carrier will soon be rebranded, as AT&T. Ads already touting the merger are likely to drop the Cingular logo by midyear...
...enough to show for it, will probably be reverse engineering the iPhone before it hits the stores. "We already have cell phones and smart phones, so the marketplace is already very competitive," says industry analyst Jeff Kagan. "We have not seen Apple compete in the insanely intense, competitive wireless marketplace...
...that the precedent has been set, it will be interesting to see if other cell-phone makers start demanding Apple-style treatment from wireless carriers. Stanley Sigman, Cingular's president and CEO, committed his company to the iPhone two years ago sight-unseen, but he appears understandably eager to play down the uniqueness of Apple's deal. "I think the interesting aspect of it is our willingness and ability to work together, to allow Cingular to be Cingular and Apple to be Apple," he says. "We have great relationships with other manufacturers. But he's clearly brought a product...