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To: dmf who wrote (109380)	9/7/2000 11:15:47 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

dmf, another piece of good news from this morning's San Jose mercury News: Tech Ticker Wireless-capable laptops will be offered by IBM International Business Machines Corp. says it is launching later this year the first laptops with built-in antennas for wireless connections. The wireless capability replaces the Ethernet cables that connect computers to each other and the Internet in office and school computer networks. Add-in cards that use the same wireless technology, called 802.11b, have been available for some time, but IBM spokesman Rick McGee said it was the first time the technology was being built into a computer with an Intel microprocessor. mercurycenter.com Note that 802.11b is the official IEEE standard spec. for wireless LANs, or WLAN. The original ethernet spec. that Cisco, and others have made a mountain of money around is 802.3. Hopefully, 802.11b takes off like 802.3 did. Tony