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To: HG who wrote (94875)	2/25/2000 2:57:00 PM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164687

Happy, look for me on television ESPN. On the 15th hole...I'm the guy who's laying down. Ps Hoping you and your family have a great weekend. I'm off to Germany tomorrow or Sunday. >February 23, 2000 FRANKFURT, Germany -- Mobile communications will take center stage when the world's biggest computer and technology convention starts tomorrow in Hanover, with nearly 8,000 companies showing off the latest gadgets, coolest computers and hot-selling software. "This year, going mobile is hot -- making things cheaper and smaller -- especially being able to communicate with the Internet from hand-held devices," said Monika Brandt, spokeswoman for the CeBit 2000 fair. Named after the German acronym for Center for Office and Information Technology, CeBit 2000 is one of the top technology trade fairs in the world. "If a company is present at one fair, it's got to be CeBit," said Thomas Mickeleit, spokesman for IBM Germany. Hundreds of companies will be showcasing mobile technologies ranging from hand-held computers to satellites. Part of the new push is toward machines that communicate with each other, such as parking meters or vending machines that radio in when they are full of coins. The technology boom driving global stock markets to record highs is aiding CeBit, though American computer giants Apple Computer Inc. and Dell Computer Corp. will sit this one out. The show takes up 26 buildings, and more than 700,000 visitors from 70 countries are expected to examine the goods offered by more than 7,800 exhibitors. Technophiles -- as well as investors -- will be paying special attention to advances in such mobile communication technology as WAP and Bluetooth, said Jonathan Booth, a technology analyst with Investec Henderson Crosthwaite in London. Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP, is a widely adopted programming language used to format news and other information from a Web site for delivery to the small screen on a mobile phone. Bluetooth is a technology championed by leading high-tech companies such as IBM, chip maker Intel and the Nokia mobile phone giant. It improves on existing wireless technologies allowing all sorts of household, workplace and mobile devices to zap data among themselves, eliminating the need for cords. Internet security also will be a top interest at the show as more companies venture online and look for safer ways to exchange credit card numbers, company information and account data over the Internet. More than 50 companies will be hawking their own systems for electronic and digital signatures to guarantee safe online transactions. That technology is crucial to explosive growth in e-commerce, especially in Europe, which got a late start compared with the United States. Last year, online retailing racked up $36 billion in the United States, compared to $3.47 billion in Europe. But as technology improves, European sales are expected to climb as high as $44.6 billion by 2002, according to the Boston Consulting Group.