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Net and Wireless--will they click?



Everyone at the Wireless 2000 show in New Orleans was buzzing about
wireless meeting up with the Net. But will it be a smooth summit or a
head-on collision? 

Everyone is talking about wireless meeting up with the Internet, and the
buzz was deafening at last week's Wireless 2000 trade show in New
Orleans. Executives of marquee companies were hot to make predictions, but
whether the meeting between the two will be a smooth, peaceful summit or a
head-on collision remains to be seen. 
"If you look five to 10 years out, almost all of e-commerce will be on
wireless devices," said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com
Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), which counts 17 million customers. 

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2455561,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01

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Lisa Potter
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill