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When I registered for my.harvard, I came across a wide array of services that came with the essential post forwarding address. There were bulletin boards, chat rooms, "professional connections"--I breathed a sigh of relief...
They may have little chance. "An independent site that focuses on beauty alone cannot survive," argues Jupiter Communications' Mike May, who notes that the cost of luring new customers to even a vast array of little-known brands will probably put Web-only players out of business. According to a study by Shop.org it costs Web-only ventures more than twice as much as clicks-and-bricks firms to win a new customer...
...checking e-mail and placing buy orders on Intel while we lie on the beach--or drive down California's busy Route 101. And with a new generation of smart cellular phones and sophisticated wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) flooding the stores this summer, each offering a dazzling array of new services, the wireless revolution has finally arrived. In this revolution, blood won't be running in the streets (if we keep our eyes on the road!), but applications like instant messaging and e-trades will...
...what should you buy? The current array of devices--cell phones, PDAs, beepers and more--bewilders even the experts. "Every few months there's a slew of new products that have more features, perform better and are priced lower," marvels Ira Brodsky, an analyst with Datacomm Research. But you've already got plenty of choices. A cell phone is a good bet if most of your wireless connectivity is going to be done by voice. These "smart phones" have the added advantage of being less expensive than a PDA. It's not hard to find a cellular service that will...
There's plenty more to come. Next year cell-phone service providers will begin offering an array of games you can play over their networks. Users will pay for them just as they do for a regular cell-phone call. In return, they'll get such options as playing poker with a friend in Fresno or entering the lottery on the fly. Nokia has even shown a text-based detective game. Rather than clicking on a picture as you would in Myst, say, you read a bit of the storyline, then choose what to do next from a list...