11. America Online announced a series of deals Monday aimed at making the service available across the country to users of wireless phones and pagers. 12. Among the companies working to perfect the Bluetooth standard are wireless phone makers Ericsson and Nokia, along with fellow founding members IBM, Intel, and Toshiba. 13. Americans are growing increasingly frustrated with the behavior of some wireless phone users. 14. Ampal said in November it was discussing such a transaction with Motorola, a leading maker of wireless phone equipment and semiconductors. 15. Among wireless phones, it could be traditional cellular against personal communications services, or analog against digital. 16. An estimated one in five residents owns a wireless phone. 17. An SBC spokesman said pay phone usage has fallen in recent years with the rise in use of wireless phones and prepaid phone cards. 18. Analog Devices became a hot stock this year because it delivered big earnings selling high-speed chips for wireless phones, digital cameras, DVD players, and other uses. 19. An e-mail went unanswered and when he tried to return the unordered wireless phone he received, the office refused to take it back. 20. And as communications equipment makers begin incorporating e-mail and in some cases rudimentary World Wide Web browsers into wireless phones, paging companies face an even greater threat. |