11.   High-powered laptops, wireless modems and other tech gear reserved for top executives constantly on the go are becoming more prized than a corner office with a skyline view.

12.   If so, when combined with a wireless modem card, it could create a new way for tourists to pester the folks back home with their vacation photos.

13.   In addition to investing in the company, MCI plans to resell a co-branded wireless modem to its wide customer base under the Ricochet and MCI names.

14.   In his civilian Chrysler, Jones has connected the Q-PC to a Ricochet wireless modem.

15.   It also lets users forward pages to fax machines by wireless modem.

16.   It also doubles as a wireless modem.

17.   It includes eyeglasses with built-in liquid-crystal displays, a small high-speed wireless modem and a global positioning satellite hookup that can pinpoint location to within an inch.

18.   Laptop users need a network card or a wireless modem.

19.   Mark Yahiro, vice president of marketing and business development for Hitachi PC Corp., said the U.S. Robotics alliance could eventually be expanded to include wireless modems.

20.   Motorola Inc., for example, has begun shipping wireless modem cards that will permit the Newton and other personal computers to send and receive E-mail.