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To: Scumbria who wrote (272)	7/8/2000 2:13:29 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 275872

Ok, well, I sort of knew that, though the big tags on NOK and QCOM still seem a little, er, big. There's a lot of competition too. On Nokia, an fun old Wired article about ground zero in the cellular trenches: Just Say Nokia In the northern skunk works called Finland, the 21st century is in beta: It's a call-anytime, roam-anywhere, use-any-protocol kännykkä world. wired.com Ok, so I probably should have bought the stock when I first saw that article. Nokia is supposed to make really good snow tires too. More recently, and from an opposite corner of the global village, there was this, from which I can't resist repeating a few gratuitous excerpts that might strike a little close to home for the hard core among us. Manila's Talk of the Town Is Text Messaging nytimes.com Muslim insurgents battling Philippine troops in the south have a new weapon. When the shelling and gunfire let up, they send a barrage of scathing insults to Manila's forces by cell phone. "There is a text war among the MILF and our forces," said Brig. Gen. Eliseo Rio Jr., referring to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the larger of two rebel groups fighting for an independent state. "Our soldiers are texting insults to the MILF. And the MILF are sending the insults back." . . . "It's evolved into something similar to chatting on the Internet," said Majidi John Bola, a 32-year-old company manager, as he sat poking away at his mobile phone at a Starbucks in Manila's business district. The difference is that while chat-room denizens sit in contemplative isolation, glued to computer screens, in the Philippines the "texters" are right out in the throng. Malls are infested with shoppers who appear to be navigating by cellular compass. Groups of diners sit ignoring one another, staring down at their phones as if fumbling with rosaries. Commuters, jaywalkers, even mourners -- everyone in the Philippines seems to be texting over the phone. Most use English, since messages usually can be typed more quickly than in Tagalog. . . . Attempting vainly to get vaguely on topic with this, I don't quite know how the internet as we know it fits in here, I find way too many of the sites I frequent more or less need IE these days, and how the fragile bloatware of Windows World ties into the coming information appliance age is a conundrum. Of course, running Windows software is where AMD's strength is, which is another conundrum, a high tech company whose key asset is really fast backward compatibility. Beats me. Cheers, Dan.