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To: EACarl who wrote (7023)	9/22/1998 6:59:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 10921

Headline: Internet Tornadoes: Intelligent Portable Phones. ====================================================================== by:John Robb GOMEZWIRE The PC industry won the battle against NCs (Network Computers), but lost the war. Why? Sub $1,000 PCs have slowed revenue growth to single digits -- with worse news to follow: interactive portable phones will gut the industry. Here's why: 1) Cheap Digital Wireless Bandwidth. The advent of CDMA technology will radically expand the amount of wireless bandwidth available. This development will increasingly open the door to new services and reduce prices. 2) The Internet. The ubiquitous Internet -- much more than the PC-centric Web -- provides a way to build, deploy, and manage services provided to consumer devices. 3) Well-engineered small device operating systems. Qualcomm recently chose the Palm operating system as their choice for a new line of phones. The Palm Pilot (NASDAQ:COMS) represents a break-through in small device engineering. The sleek feature functionality of the Palm Pilot has generated a cottage industry of over 1,000 applications. Gomez believes that intelligent portable phones, like Qualcomm's (NASDAQ:QCOM) pdQ phone, will create a boom in Internet-based wireless services that perform real world tasks such as brokerage, banking, travel reservations, etc. Get more at: gomezwire.com