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To: StockHawk who wrote (8571)	10/20/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: StockHawk	Respond to of 54805

From an article on GSM: upside.com Philippe Kahn Dreams in Wireless October 14, 1999 by Sylvia Carr Philippe Kahn wants to free humanity from the cubicle. The founder and former CEO of Borland now heads up Starfish, a company that makes software and technology for portable devices. Last August, Motorola bought Starfish and called on Kahn to update Motorola?s image. "Motorola was Sears and Roebuck. We want to make it Armani and Prada," Kahn explains. He calls the first bulky, black and gold Motorola phone a "weapon." Nothing like the sparkly blue, small and contoured Motorola TimePort L7089 Kahn unclips from his belt while on stage at Upside's Launch show. Already sold in Europe and Asia, the TimePort is the first tri-ban phone (it works with all three GSM frequencies) that works across the globe: in Europe, Asia, the United States, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. Expect to see it in U.S. stores by the end of the year, and an Internet-enabled version should arrive a few months later. "We want to put the Internet in your pocket," Kahn says of Motorola/Starfish's vision.