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That day is still a way off, at least in the U.S. America introduced the world to handheld wireless when it outfitted GIs with walkie-talkies during World War II. But in the years since, the country has fallen woefully behind the rest of the world. The main reason we're lagging is that in the early 1990s Europe and Asia adopted a common digital standard called Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) that lets overseas cell-phone users call seamlessly among 120 countries, from Sweden to Singapore. The U.S., by contrast, had several competing standards--slowing adoption of wireless...
COMBAT WEAPONS Light Fighter Lethality weapons, both wrist mounted and handheld, will be the weapons of the future with target detection and long-distance capability...
...Super Bowl LIV in 2020. Record-setting numbers of viewers are tuned in to watch the game, but not on television and not over the Internet. Instead they are using handheld broadband devices that allow them to project the transmission onto any flat surface. And in 2020, just as today, viewers are interested in the game, but they're even more interested in the advertising...
...Pong. While there are some advantages to having a PDA that runs Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system--most new Pocket PC-running machines feature color, digital music players, handwriting recognition and ClearType, a way to make pages more readable on small screens--Palm remains the standard in the handheld world. There are something like 3,000 programs written for the Palm OS and only a few hundred for the Microsoft platform. Among those 3,000 programs are applications that easily work with virtually every Microsoft program, rendering compatibility with your favorite desktop software a nonissue...
...Voice recognition, server-based applications, new ways to stream audio and video, handheld devices...