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To: S100 who wrote (8763)	1/11/2001 3:32:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

This is a promotion of the Financial Times. Wall Street Journal is a wacky, "make it up on the keyboard", rag which is inconsistent and biased. From "Jacobs' Patter" to promoting illegal stock scams, it is NOT a reputable publication. dictionary.com There is no definition there which fits Dr Irwin Jacobs' presentations about QUALCOMM, which shows bias or ignorance or making-it-up or simple malevolence or possibly anti-Jewish attitudes. I wonder which it was? Maybe they have their own dictionary for what 'patter' means. Or maybe they just think a bit of destructive poetic license is fine in a major publication which purports to give readers an accurate insight into wassup. They don't pretend to be a satirical publication. It isn't satire. No irony. Now, on the other hand, the Financial Times has, as far as I can recall, been consistently of a high standard. I bought it daily for a year and didn't recoil from obviously absurd stories as I do from most newspapers and media reporting. I suppose they are a bit like the BBC = trying quite deliberately with a matter of pride to remain objective. In sympathy with the WSJ rag, it would be hard to remain objective in the rabid mania which passes for objective analysis in the USA. Think of the recent election, the hanging chads and the hanging Governor and the Vice President who was hung out to dry by the Supreme Court. Think of the OJ 'objective' trial by mania. For the FT to remain objective in the socialist cesspool of Europe, where Mad Cow Disease is rampant thanks to short term politicians who don't want to panic anyone because of a bit of brain destruction, is quite an achievement. Perhaps it's because they see themselves as above the muck that they feel the clarity of view which they generally espouse and don't feel the need to descend. They are also a reputable news source as well as financial. Okay, FT, don't let me down!! news.ft.com Admission: I have not read WSJ or FT for a long time. The few WSJ articles which I see [in SI usually] are off-beam at a superficial glance. Maybe FT has gone to the dogs. Bookmark FT and refer to it folks! No, I get no financial benefit from FT. Avoid WSJ an avoid being misled. Anyone worried about Jacobs' Patter missed out on the best wealth creation in a single year in human history from a single company from a market capitalisation of about $4 billion to about $150 billion [more at the very peak]. It was a great celebration of human progress that it peaked on the last day at the end of the 20th century [depending on when you think the end arrived]. Nokians should be aware that this is the company which they are partnering with for creation of CDMA. I think many Nokians remain confused about the place of QUALCOMM in the world, which is not good for them. Nokia and QUALCOMM are now ascendant in the wireless world. Motorola is smaller than Q! Nokia towers over Ericsson. Here is the FT comment on damage from cellphones; <Health scares are another worry for manufacturers. The scientific evidence of any harm caused by handset radiation remains scant. The worst that critics can say is that no one can prove that mobile phones (or their radio masts) are absolutely safe.> That is succinct, accurate and objective. It is true that the worries of subscribers is a worry for manufacturers. Here is another succinct, accurate and objective comment; <Handsets using this high-speed system, known as General Packet Radio Switching (GPRS), have been slow to arrive in bulk and may prove as big a flop as earlier internet access provided through Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) phones. The delay in GPRS is particularly worrying with third-generation networks around the corner: many customers will delay replacing their handset, on the grounds that it will be largely obsolete by next year. > Vodafone in New Zealand has installed GPRS and is waiting, waiting, waiting for handsets. I wonder if there are performance guarantees which Nokia has given for service providers to instal GPRS and there is a huge contingent liability about to come home to roost. GPRS speed is slow, even in demonstation. GPRS drains batteries [if I believe what I've read, which seems likely to be true - it will take significant processing power to handle run Internet applications]. GPRS is a spectrum hog and in a world where 10 MHz bandwidth runs to $$ billions in a single country, that will push the price of bandwidth hogs way up. So GPRS is probably going to be expensive. We will soon see. Mqurice PS: See the GGMDM stream for a WSJ illegal stock scam. They even carried an advertisement by Irwin Jacobs for a dehypothecation. Good grief! They had earlier decried similar crimes then did exactly what they claimed was illegal. They even used Irwin Jacobs' name in the advertisement [Irwin Jacobs was promoting the dehypothecation of some company he had shares in]. I don't recall them pointing out that it was a different Irwin Jacobs in the advertisement from our idol. My all-time favourite journalistic fantasy was the cover story Time did on male child prostitution in Moscow, in the early 1990s. It was obvious from the story that it was a crock and I raved about it at the time. Several weeks later, it turned out that "yes indeed, we were had!" What a laugh. Constantly, if one knows the details of a story, the factual details are wrong, from photos with the wrong name on them, to numbers being off by an order of magnitude. Anything they can get wrong, they do. Then they embellish the story, or photos with a comment under the photos which are obviously NOT what the photos show but more what the publication wants them to show or imagine them to show. At least in SI, when we say dumb things, there are plenty of people to find the faults.

To: S100 who wrote (8763)	1/11/2001 3:44:42 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 34857

GPRS and WAP Neither one is really anything without the other, this is a must to consider when thinking about either one. The key thing is - being constantly connected through GPRS (without draining the battery, some problems with commercials here) - low cost possible as only extra capacity of network is needed but additionally high burstrates and additionally high streaming rate (probably for cold cash) This is why a special protocol is needed, very short messages back and forth when nothing or little, happens, something WAP can do, other present protocols cannot. (battery-battery-battery for mobile devices) Eg, WAP has been specifically designed to do a lot of smart caching of repeated, "empty" messages to save transmit power and capacity. This is also one of the more difficult things to handle, both for those building the standard and especially for "high" level programmers who do not really grasp what actually goes on (deep down at the hardware level) and additionally to make the whole network plus devices work together. But to "analyse" GPRS and WAP separately is just a way of saying one hasn't understood the whole thing.. Ilmarinen.