Word: wireless
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With more floor space, the lab will offer expanded services such as international broadcasts with wireless headphones; reading areas with lounging chairs and foreign periodicals; video viewing rooms; space designed for practicing foreign-language skits; and speech-to-text software for students who are unable for medical reasons to type their papers...
Broadcasters will transmit both analog and digital signals for nine years until 2086, when all analog licenses will revert to FCC control. The old "channel 2 to channel 82" spectrum will be used for wireless Internet access, cell phones and other personal communications devices...
...Secretary Lawrence Summers, charged with looking after the IRS, says, "I think modernization has gone way off track. They tried to build the Taj Mahal." Senator Bob Kerrey, co-chairman of the restructuring commission, describes tax modernization as a failure. Says Kerrey: "While the world has moved into the wireless age with home banking, atms on every corner and stock investing over the Internet, IRS technology has remained stagnant...
...size swagger of Enron, which vows to overpower its stodgy utility rivals. "What other industry in America still sends agents into your home to read meters just as they did in 1935?" asks Enron spokesman Mark Palmer. Enron is putting its money where its boasts are: gearing up for wireless metering and building a billing center near Columbus, Ohio, with the capacity to produce statements for no fewer than--count 'em--30 million customers...
...with FCC deregulation bringing as many as six new players to each wireless market and the industry upgrading from analog to digital (and adding data capabilities to every phone), Rossmann's timing looks impeccable. Earlier this month, Unwired Planet closed a deal with Qualcomm, which should be rolling out digital cellular phones that can receive news, weather and stock info with UP's software by late this year. "We know we've won when this technology becomes an expected feature, not a curiosity," says UP vice president Ben Linder. At the rate UP is going, managing a portfolio and checking...