[IP] Mobility - Special from Financial Times

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Date: November 13, 2005 7:22:25 AM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Mobility - Special from Financial Times
Reply-To: dewayne@warpspeed.com

[Note:  This item comes from friend John Wilson.  DLH]

> From: "john wilson" <johnresearch@hotmail.com>
> Date: November 13, 2005 3:26:03 AM PST
> To: dewayne@dandin.com, dewayne@warpspeed.com
> Subject: mobility-special-ft
>
> Dewayne
>
> Another FT article, lengthy, good, re mobile comms, with  
> interesting refs to wireless/wifi (also relates earlier MIT  
> wireless campus story of this wk):
>
> eg
> ===
>
> Tools such as e-mail and instant messaging may have been around  
> since the dawn of the internet era, but it has taken a wireless  
> communications revolution to turn them into a constant and  
> inescapable fact of life for a growing part of the population. WiFi  
> networks - a low-cost technology that can beam large chunks of data  
> over short distances using part of the radio spectrum that was  
> previously the preserve of gadgets such as garage door openers and  
> baby monitors - assure the digitally addicted of a permanent and  
> ubiquitous connection to the wider world. At the same time, more  
> versatile mobile phones have turned text messages into the  
> communications tool of choice for teenagers in Asia and Europe, if  
> not yet the US, while also bringing e-mail to many handsets. For  
> those in the grip of these new networks, life has changed. There’s  
> no such thing as solitude any more, no fragment of time that cannot  
> be filled with digital chatter.
>
> ==
>
> Its a v long article, I have posted full version to my blog here:
> <http://prismspectrum.blogspot.com/2005/11/mobility-special-ft.html>

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