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To: George Gilder who wrote (765)	10/26/1998 12:52:00 AM
From: appro	Respond to of 5853

>>there will be many little embarrassments<< A recent personal experience leads me to believe your statement summarizes the Y2K issue rather nicely for the most part. After installing a new scanner with driver updates and image handling software, many of my most critical applications started generating unexplainable "general protection faults", "divide by" errors and other mysterious messages. Windows 98 refused to reinstall. Microsoft OnLine support insisted my IE4.0 browser was not enabling cookies. It said I would have to be re-educated about the value of using cookies and change browsers before I could access their web page. Two 45-minute discussions with Microsoft support came to a happy conclusion when the rep asked me to check my system date. My system date had changed to 10/23/2098, making my drivers, backups and software updates 100 years old. Attempting to reinstall the operating system apparently was prevented by some obscure error checking routine on the serial number I entered which did not jive with the year 2098. My clever browser was not going to accept site certificates which were more than a hundred years old. Fortunately in my case, what had been an unmitigated disaster one minute became a laughable lesson the next because the rep remembered a similar case from a few weeks earlier. Still, it has taken three days to to get most of my applications functioning normally and I have yet to finish repairing all the little unintended consequences.

To: George Gilder who wrote (765)	10/26/1998 11:22:00 AM
From: IVAN1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

Year 2000 Thank you very much for your thoughts. I might add that .1% of 50,000,000,000 embedded chips is 50,000,000 chips which still might be rather nasty!!!! All best wishes, Ivan1

To: George Gilder who wrote (765)	10/27/1998 7:13:00 AM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5853

DoCoMo, Flush with new cash, pursues future of mobile phone Interesting article at interactive.wsj.com in today's Wall Street Journal about NTT Mobile Communications Networks planned use of wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) to build cellphones capable of transmitting live video. Planned launch of the first W-CDMA network is in Japan in March 2001. Any idea how this relates to QCOM? It seems to me that with the Europeans tweaking their CDMA variants to skirt some of QCOM's patents the Japanese would be motivated to do the same. Interesting excerpt from the article: W-CDMA still faces uncertain prospects in the U.S., though. Many operators have adopted CDMA, which sounds similar but is so far incompatible with W-CDMA. Worse, many of those American CDMA operators use frequency earmarked for W-CDMA and paid the government billions for the privilege. The last thing they want is to adopt a standard that requires that they buy more frequency, says Scott Erickson, vice president of Lucent Technologies' wireless networks group in Asia. These obstacles and lobbying of the U.S. Congress against W-CDMA by CDMA's inventor, Qualcomm, are likely to leave the U.S. out of W-CDMA's international embrace. Is QCOM now more interested in lobbying and litigating than innovating?