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...there's no question Americans are eagerly cutting the cord. Cell-phone use in the U.S. started slow. As recently as 1990 there were only 5 million wireless subscribers. Now 90 million Americans have cell phones, and by 2003 the number is likely to approach 140 million. Virtually all phones being made today have microbrowser capability, enabling them to surf the Web. PDA sales are exploding; they're projected to rise from 8.9 million last year to 35 million in 2003. That's largely due to a flurry of new devices from Casio, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard, as well...
...wireless capability. The Palm VII has a built-in antenna. Flip it up, and you have Internet access. By the end of the year, Palm promises add-ons that will let all its earlier models hook up too. The implications are striking. By 2002, says International Data Corp., the number of people connecting to the Internet wirelessly will surpass the number hooking up through...
...Executives can use it to beam their business cards from their device to someone else's. And it's the technology behind that romantic Palm commercial in which two beautiful strangers, spying each other from different trains as one pulls away, manage to communicate: she sends him her phone number before they're whisked apart. (Yes, you can really do it if both Palms are on and you're close enough together...
...these battles are particularly high stakes. In one, AOL, Yahoo, Excite@Home and others are fighting to become the dominant "mobile portal"--the first screen that wireless Internet users land on. The winner has the potential to be the Yahoo of the wireless age once the number of people connecting to the Internet wirelessly exceeds the number connecting through wires...
There was a time--maybe it started back in the '60s, maybe it ended around the time of the L.A. uprising in the '90s--when a sizable number of people thought American culture was drifting inevitably toward a comforting state of colorblindness. Sure, the nation was confronted with myriad racial difficulties and divisions, but eventually, at some dreamed-of point in the perhaps distant future, things would work their way out: we'd learn to love our neighbors; the Census form would be reduced to one box, human; and everybody from Compton, Calif., to Greenwich, Conn., would hug, link hands...