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Rossman is the guy behind WAP, or wireless application protocol. Like packet switching or HTML, it doesn't sound like much, but it's vitally important to the future of the Internet. WAP lays out the rules for squeezing the best of the Net onto that Nokia (or Ericsson or Motorola) in your pocket. Rossman left his native Paris, picked up an M.B.A. at Stanford, worked on the original Apple Macintosh, started three companies and sold one to AT&T before even thinking about WAP. But his best move was attending a 1994 wireless convention in Santa Clara, Calif., where...
...Like almost all mobile phones, my Nokia 6160 has a wonderful way of remembering phone numbers. Over the course of a year some of my most important numbers have ended up in the phone. The problem is that there's no way to get the personal phone book off the Nokia, despite an infrared port at one end that looks like it should be able to "beam" the numbers to a Palm or other infrared device. Unless, of course, I copy them out by hand...
...once the cell phone panic takes hold. Apparently, cell phones don't only cause us to wreck our cars and die in fiery balls of steel, they also may contribute to the development of brain tumors. After years of pooh-poohing the dangers (and happily pocketing checks from Nokia and Motorola), the government has finally gotten nervous enough to sponsor a study in which cell phone users' brains will be carefully monitored (although not while they're driving). Nothing is clear at this point; cell phones could be perfectly safe, or they could be the handheld equivalent of a brain...
...recap. Last year, everything was just fine. I was happy as I used my Nokia to order gourmet potato chips that I could afford because of my burgeoning portfolio. Now I'm staring down financial ruin, impending brain damage and an eerily complementary brain tumor. What a wonderful new century - I'm certainly glad I won't be around for the next...
When that happens, Japanese consumer-electronics giants like Sony and Panasonic are likely to stage their own assaults on the market and chip away at Nokia's lead, warns Iain Gillott of IDC. But Ollila is undaunted. "In 1991," he recalls, "people were telling me, 'Now that you've been able to get [your mobile-phones business] into the black, you should sell it quick, because the Japanese will...