Why did they have to rebuild their larger buildings in India? Because they were poor quality and fell apart? I bet if machines were used they would have turned out better...
Walking came first, then the bike, then the motorcycle, then the automobile. All of these are progressions of human transportation. They all add a layer of techical sophistication that the earlier did not posess.
While I agree that using tree based paper is bad for our ecology (global warming, and the toxic chemicals used to bleach it). I do not see how lacking something to wash your hands be out of the question when dealing with toxic substances. I think some soap and an air dryer for the hands would be in order.
After doing some reasearch on the matter I've found that this New Zealander shared my interest with Indians lack of cleanliness:
---From: "Neil Pharazyn" manager@isc.co.nz Subject: Toilets of the World Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 10:23:31 +1200
Can you help. I am surfing the web to find how exactly to clean myself after going to the toilet in India. We are visiting there later this year and I thought it would be a good idea to know the precise technique in advance.
Can you advise - or direct me to a web site that does so? Most sites seem to be humourous.
I know that most/many toilets are a "hole in the floor". I understand that I place my feet either side and suspend myself (Are their hand supports?). When I clean up do I pour water from a bottle over my backside then reach around and rub my anus with my fingers until it feels clean? Is it obvious that it is clean? Do I need to pour water several times? It seems to me that my hand [esp. under fingernails] must get very filthy, visibly or invisibly so. So presumably there is a wash basin, soap and towel.
For fat people the above must be a real balancing trick.
I imagine that poor Indians don't have a washbasin, soap and towel. I wonder how clean the hands are of staff preparing food in the hotel where I stay.
Thanks in advance
Neil Pharazyn New Zealand
---
This comment was found on the Toilets of the World Website:
These people refuse to use building machines. Everything is built and moved by hand. There are no power tools (at least where I visited last year).
They're methodology is that dump trucks and bull dozers cost people there jobs. So they'd rather have a line of 20 women with bricks stacked on their heads 4 feet tall walking ramps to their destination.
All building is done with hand tools (ie: manual saws and turn style drills).
This is a culture that doesn't use toilet paper or soap in it's bathrooms. The homes that even have indoor plumbing use a contraption that looks like a small shower head for cleaning their 'backside' after using the crouching toilet. Talk about getting your pants wet!
This is a very unevolved country.
I hate to be brutaly honest but the only way an Indian is getting into space would be if the US Government replaces the current NASA astronaughts with H1-B Visa workers.
What if your going to share a file with a friend. With a floppies price you could just give him the disk. Are you going to give him a 8MB CF or USB key?
SuperDisk drives are 30$ and media is 3/20$ is 3.5" 1.44MB floppy compatible and their native media holds 120MB.
Sureley if the drive were EVER to catch on the media would get to the price of the current defacto floppy.
What about Imation's SuperDisk aka LS-120? Apparently it is an open format, as multiple manufacturers create the drives. It seems to be the best candidate to replace the floppy as it can read old 3.5" 1.44MB disks as well as their 120MB SuperDisks. I have never used one, but I would hope that the speed is much faster with their media.
The drives go for 30$ and the media 3/20$ (pricewatch).
Anyone who has registered a domain name, should have enough competency to understand who is sending email to them to deem it as 'official'.
Someone that enters into contracts with companies in a field that is as technical as computing should know a thing or two about how the Internet works.
If this was a company employee that did this, I would say that they didn't know what they were doing and they need to find another job.
If this was a private individual doing it, It would be like somone trying to build a bomb from instructions they found on the Internet, and it blowing up in their face.
And in this case, the builder would try to sue Bob, and lose horribly.
What he is saying here is where this software release can hold the trademarked name "OpenSource". In order to use this trademark the license must be accepted as, lets say it together 'open source'.
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But does this require you to buy the $400 C development pkg in order for you to write software for it? Or how about the $130 Ethernet adapter to hook it to the internet?
Heres a wild thought.... When major releases like this come out, why don't we use the wonderful OpenFastTrack P2P service? giFT is the really easy to get working, and is super reliable right now. Check it out.
http://gift.sourceforge.net/
Make sure you get the curses front-end (giFTcurs).
Just zip up the tarballs, or RPM's and throw them on the network?
Ah is that it? I've been wondering what my problem is. I thought partly because so many companies have jumped on the H1-B bandwagon (like mine). My company wont even hire new employees as coders for the project, only H1-B visa workers.
I have the ThinkPad 600e. I installed RedHat 7.3 on it, and it works wonderfully. X came up without issue. I run wireless on it at work and home.
Oh, sound was an issue, but IBM's website tells you how to make it work. It uses the cs4232 driver. The device does not init correctly on boot for some reason, so if you remove then remodprobe the module it works fine.
I'm unable to suspend to disk, but I didn't set up a partition for that. Haven't seen if Windows will still do it after I repartitioned.
I'm looking forward to the suspend to RAM functionality of the 2.5 kernel.
I've been trying to get the serial port to work today without much success. I believe I have the tools required.
The MWave soft modem driver was released just a bit ago (source and all I believe), I have downloaded the driver, but haven't tried it yet.
I've gotten DVD working great with mplayer (be sure to use the FFmpeg library). On a P2-400MHz!
All in all I'm very pleased! I got mine for a song on Ebay.
You said it: you have twice the liability. Instead of only having one point of failure (one disc), you have two points of failure.
This of course is only true of RAID 0 striping.
RAID 1 mirroring theoretically doubles your reads, but does nothing for writes. But you do have half of the liability of one drive; thus doubling your reliability.
I was there last June. I took a tour of the Mahabalipuram Temple. The tour guide mentioned the sunken city. So apparently this isn't really all that new to them.
This site although in Japanese, does have some very nice photos of the shore temple that didn't sink. One thing to note is, these monuments were all carved from one stone.
I can just imagine fleets of these long tube like gliders deep in the ocean, programmed to travel to a specified GPS location for pick up. They could carry huge ammounts of drugs! This will be the DEA's new nightmare.
I can just imagine fleets of these long tube like gliders deep in the ocean, programmed to travel to a specified GPS location for pick up. They could carry huge ammounts of . The DEA's new nightmare.
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If you can throw a brick at Microsoft from where your at, you should know that North East 8th (about 3 miles from MS, has about a dozen computer stores on it, try Computer Stop, they have most everything in stock, although you will pay for it.
Ok. This is just inane. Why build this when someone has already done it better for cheaper?
http://www.raidweb.com
We purchase their 8 disk IDE RAID arrays. They are hot swap, support RAID 0, 0+1, 1, 3, 5, and hot spare, have dual failover power supplies, come with 64MB cache, which can be upgraded. Configurable via the EZ front LCD display, or via serial console. They support ATA-100, and ATA-133 coming shortly. Software upgradable, and it runs Linux.
They array (sans disks) runs us $3200. They even have versions that have dual fiber ports out the back.
WARNING - DO NOT purchase these with IBM GXP75 (75GB) disks like we did... we have about 80 of them that failed.
Verizon Announces Relationship with Accenture; Introduces Kyocera 2235 and the
Sierra Wireless AirCard® 555
Starting today, Verizon Wireless customers in major East and West Coast
markets will be able to reap the rewards of a significantly faster,
more robust wireless experience with the company's commercial launch of
its 1XRTT network. The 1XRTT network will enhance all levels of
wireless communications - from a simple voice call, to full Internet
browsing, streaming video, and email. This high-speed network also
supports enterprise applications, giving companies with mobile
employees tools for increased productivity and efficiency.
The company is the first U.S. wireless carrier to commercially launch a
sizeable 3G footprint. The 1XRTT network is available now to
customers in areas of the Northeast U.S., from Norfolk, VA Washington,
D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, up to Boston and in Portland,
Maine; in the technology-savvy Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay
Area of Northern California; and in Salt Lake City, site of the 2002
Winter Olympics. 1XRTT network capabilities are already available in
more than 20 percent of the Verizon Wireless footprint, reaching more
than 53 million Americans.
The Express Network is Verizon Wireless' 1XRTT data network, capable of
data transmission speeds up to 144 kilobits per second (kbps.) Business
customers and individual consumers in Express Network markets may take
advantage of high wireless data speeds and robust Internet access by
using the new Verizon Wireless 2235 handset from Kyocera with a
compatible Mobile Office kit as a modem for their laptops, or by using
the AirCard 555 PC card from Sierra Wireless, for their laptops and
select PDAs. Express Network subscribers on the high-speed data
network can now have access to their company network or Internet at
faster speeds.
The Express Network will give users full Internet access, intranet
access and traditional email functionality via a laptop at
unprecedented speeds for wireless access. Users should expect average
speeds between 40 and 60 kbps, significantly higher than speeds being
produced by competing technologies and comparable to what PC users get
when using a dial-up Internet service at home.
The rollout of our Express Network is a major expression of our
differentiation in the wireless marketplace: the high quality of our
wireless network," said Verizon Wireless chief technical officer Dick
Lynch. "Wireless data is only as good as the network it's on, and the
premier Verizon Wireless network, already the most advanced in the
nation, just took another giant step ahead of its competitors." Lynch
added, "We will continue expansion of the Express Network, and by the
close of 2002 the majority of the nearly 222 million covered POPs
should be able to use the Express Network every day."
"Together with the nation's most expansive network, Express Network
gives our customers a strategic advantage as they continue to
increasingly rely on wireless products for their business and personal
communications needs, " said Lowell McAdam, executive vice president
and chief operating officer of Verizon Wireless. "Given the very
positive response from the participants who previewed the 1XRTT network
this fall, we are confident that our high-speed data network will
fulfill and exceed our customers' expectations."
Verizon Wireless and Accenture Join Forces for the Enterprise
In conjunction with the Express Network launch, Verizon Wireless also
announced an alliance with Accenture (NYSE: ACN) to market and sell
mobile enterprise applications offered by the Accenture Mobile Service
Bureau. Through the alliance, Verizon Wireless and Accenture will be
able to offer enterprise customers access to a wide variety of
integrated mobile solutions deployed via Verizon Wireless' Express
Network as well as Verizon Wireless' existing coast-to-coast digital
network.
The Accenture Mobile Services Bureau takes the uncertainty and
complexity out of deploying enterprise mobile applications by
pre-integrating core solutions in a hosted environment. This provides
companies with enterprise-grade security, coordinated logistics and
provisioning for the distribution of wireless devices, high-caliber
customer service and wireless network integration with Verizon
Wireless' premier network. This allows companies to deploy mobile
applications easily, more quickly and at a reduced cost.
"By tapping into Accenture's experience in developing mobile solutions
and platforms, we can provide our business customers with a faster,
simpler way to achieve the benefits of mobility for their employees,
customers and suppliers," McAdam said.
Express Network Pricing
Customers with a monthly digital voice calling plan of $35 or more can
sign up for the Express Network, which lets customers use any of their
airtime allowance minutes for voice or data, for an additional $30 per
month. Verizon Wireless also anticipates introducing plans based on
kilobyte usage in the near future for customers and enterprises that
prefer such pricing.
Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 is 1XRTT Compatible
The Sierra Wireless AirCard 555, which retails for $299.99 will enable
customers to add voice, circuit-switched data and short messaging
service capabilities to their laptops, select PDAs, and other computing
devices.
"Sierra Wireless is pleased to provide Verizon Wireless with the first
PC Card product for its next generation service," said Jason Cohenour,
senior vice president of distribution for Sierra Wireless. "We look
forward to continuing our long-standing partnership with Verizon
Wireless, providing the award winning AirCard 555 as an important
element of the fast and reliable wireless connectivity provided by the
Verizon Wireless Express Network."
The Tethered Solution From Verizon Wireless
Beginning today, the Verizon Wireless 2235 by Kyocera, a 1XRTT
data-compatible wireless handset, will be available through Verizon
Wireless corporate sales and in those Communications Stores where the
Express Network is available. The tri-mode wireless handset, which
retails for $79.99, is a communications system that includes many
attractive features: voice-activated dialing, a WAP browser, electronic
games, two-way text messaging, and predictive text-input software for
rapid text entry. With a subscription to the Express Network and a
compatible Mobile Office kit, sold separately for $79.99, the 2235
offers customers the opportunity for faster Internet access. The
company expects to announce more wireless handset options soon.
"Kyocera Wireless is pleased to support Verizon Wirleless' launch of
their Express Network with our new Kyocera 2235 1XRTT wireless
handset," said Skip Speaks, president and COO of Kyocera Wireless Corp.
"The wireless industry has eagerly anticipated the launch of 1X, and
Kyocera Wireless is proud to offer the first 1X phones commercially
available on Verizon Wireless' Express Network."
Express Network equipment and service are available through Verizon
Wireless corporate sales, select Communications Stores, or by calling
1-800-308-DATA.
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Why did they have to rebuild their larger buildings in India? Because they were poor quality and fell apart? I bet if machines were used they would have turned out better...
Walking came first, then the bike, then the motorcycle, then the automobile. All of these are progressions of human transportation. They all add a layer of techical sophistication that the earlier did not posess.
While I agree that using tree based paper is bad for our ecology (global warming, and the toxic chemicals used to bleach it). I do not see how lacking something to wash your hands be out of the question when dealing with toxic substances. I think some soap and an air dryer for the hands would be in order.
After doing some reasearch on the matter I've found that this New Zealander shared my interest with Indians lack of cleanliness:
---From: "Neil Pharazyn" manager@isc.co.nz
Subject: Toilets of the World
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 10:23:31 +1200
Can you help. I am surfing the web to find how exactly to clean myself
after going to the toilet in India. We are visiting there later this
year and I thought it would be a good idea to know the precise technique
in advance.
Can you advise - or direct me to a web site that does so? Most sites
seem to be humourous.
I know that most/many toilets are a "hole in the floor". I understand
that I place my feet either side and suspend myself (Are their hand
supports?). When I clean up do I pour water from a bottle over my
backside then reach around and rub my anus with my fingers until it
feels clean? Is it obvious that it is clean? Do I need to pour water
several times? It seems to me that my hand [esp. under fingernails]
must get very filthy, visibly or invisibly so. So presumably there is a
wash basin, soap and towel.
For fat people the above must be a real balancing trick.
I imagine that poor Indians don't have a washbasin, soap and towel. I
wonder how clean the hands are of staff preparing food in the hotel
where I stay.
Thanks in advance
Neil Pharazyn
New Zealand
---
This comment was found on the Toilets of the World Website:
http://www.cromwell-intl.com/toilet/Index.html
Yes, the lack of power tools 'in and of itself' DOES has everything to do with technological sophistication.
Think of a caveman starting a fire with a bow and dowel. Now think of it with a Bic lighter. Which is faster?
Machine tools are faster (build more) and more accurate (better quality) than hand tools. Go build me a rocket with hand tools.
And no, I don't think making or using paper products is technical at all. It just requires machines, of which they lack, and they refuse to use.
My stories only serve to give the reader some idea as to the sophistication of this country.
The fact that they think they need to go into space before they have indoor plumbing in their households astounds me.
These people refuse to use building machines. Everything is built and moved by hand. There are no power tools (at least where I visited last year).
They're methodology is that dump trucks and bull dozers cost people there jobs. So they'd rather have a line of 20 women with bricks stacked on their heads 4 feet tall walking ramps to their destination.
All building is done with hand tools (ie: manual saws and turn style drills).
This is a culture that doesn't use toilet paper or soap in it's bathrooms. The homes that even have indoor plumbing use a contraption that looks like a small shower head for cleaning their 'backside' after using the crouching toilet. Talk about getting your pants wet!
This is a very unevolved country.
I hate to be brutaly honest but the only way an Indian is getting into space would be if the US Government replaces the current NASA astronaughts with H1-B Visa workers.
The drive is $30, and native 120MB media is 3/20$, not to mention you can still use your old 1.44MB disks.
Plus you can use SuperDisk media which holds 120MB!
Noway!
What if your going to share a file with a friend. With a floppies price you could just give him the disk. Are you going to give him a 8MB CF or USB key?
SuperDisk drives are 30$ and media is 3/20$ is 3.5" 1.44MB floppy compatible and their native media holds 120MB.
Sureley if the drive were EVER to catch on the media would get to the price of the current defacto floppy.
What about Imation's SuperDisk aka LS-120? Apparently it is an open format, as multiple manufacturers create the drives. It seems to be the best candidate to replace the floppy as it can read old 3.5" 1.44MB disks as well as their 120MB SuperDisks. I have never used one, but I would hope that the speed is much faster with their media.
The drives go for 30$ and the media 3/20$ (pricewatch).
More likely something like the X10 protocol over your house power wires.
Anyone who has registered a domain name, should have enough competency to understand who is sending email to them to deem it as 'official'.
Someone that enters into contracts with companies in a field that is as technical as computing should know a thing or two about how the Internet works.
If this was a company employee that did this, I would say that they didn't know what they were doing and they need to find another job.
If this was a private individual doing it, It would be like somone trying to build a bomb from instructions they found on the Internet, and it blowing up in their face.
And in this case, the builder would try to sue Bob, and lose horribly.
What he is saying here is where this software release can hold the trademarked name "OpenSource". In order to use this trademark the license must be accepted as, lets say it together 'open source'.
But does this require you to buy the $400 C development pkg in order for you to write software for it? Or how about the $130 Ethernet adapter to hook it to the internet?
Heres a wild thought.... When major releases like this come out, why don't we use the wonderful OpenFastTrack P2P service? giFT is the really easy to get working, and is super reliable right now. Check it out.
http://gift.sourceforge.net/
Make sure you get the curses front-end (giFTcurs).
Just zip up the tarballs, or RPM's and throw them on the network?
step 2: Collect underpants!
Ah is that it? I've been wondering what my problem is. I thought partly because so many companies have jumped on the H1-B bandwagon (like mine). My company wont even hire new employees as coders for the project, only H1-B visa workers.
While smit and smitty are really neat, the underlying ODM database is something linux should do without.
I think the key for Linux to surpass Solaris is the implementation of CacheFS. This is where Linux is really lagging behind Solaris.
I have the ThinkPad 600e. I installed RedHat 7.3 on it, and it works wonderfully. X came up without issue. I run wireless on it at work and home.
Oh, sound was an issue, but IBM's website tells you how to make it work. It uses the cs4232 driver. The device does not init correctly on boot for some reason, so if you remove then remodprobe the module it works fine.
I'm unable to suspend to disk, but I didn't set up a partition for that. Haven't seen if Windows will still do it after I repartitioned.
I'm looking forward to the suspend to RAM functionality of the 2.5 kernel.
I've been trying to get the serial port to work today without much success. I believe I have the tools required.
The MWave soft modem driver was released just a bit ago (source and all I believe), I have downloaded the driver, but haven't tried it yet.
I've gotten DVD working great with mplayer (be sure to use the FFmpeg library). On a P2-400MHz!
All in all I'm very pleased! I got mine for a song on Ebay.
You said it: you have twice the liability. Instead of only having one point of failure (one disc), you have two points of failure.
This of course is only true of RAID 0 striping.
RAID 1 mirroring theoretically doubles your reads, but does nothing for writes. But you do have half of the liability of one drive; thus doubling your reliability.
This site although in Japanese, does have some very nice photos of the shore temple that didn't sink. One thing to note is, these monuments were all carved from one stone.
As seen in this photo here this is all ONE rock.
Very impressive.
I can just imagine fleets of these long tube like gliders deep in the ocean, programmed to travel to a specified GPS location for pick up. They could carry huge ammounts of drugs! This will be the DEA's new nightmare.
I can just imagine fleets of these long tube like gliders deep in the ocean, programmed to travel to a specified GPS location for pick up. They could carry huge ammounts of . The DEA's new nightmare.
If you can throw a brick at Microsoft from where your at, you should know that North East 8th (about 3 miles from MS, has about a dozen computer stores on it, try Computer Stop, they have most everything in stock, although you will pay for it.
Ok. This is just inane. Why build this when someone has already done it better for cheaper?
http://www.raidweb.com
We purchase their 8 disk IDE RAID arrays. They are hot swap, support RAID 0, 0+1, 1, 3, 5, and hot spare, have dual failover power supplies, come with 64MB cache, which can be upgraded. Configurable via the EZ front LCD display, or via serial console. They support ATA-100, and ATA-133 coming shortly. Software upgradable, and it runs Linux.
They array (sans disks) runs us $3200. They even have versions that have dual fiber ports out the back.
WARNING - DO NOT purchase these with IBM GXP75 (75GB) disks like we did... we have about 80 of them that failed.
Verizon Announces Relationship with Accenture; Introduces Kyocera 2235 and the
Sierra Wireless AirCard® 555
Starting today, Verizon Wireless customers in major East and West Coast
markets will be able to reap the rewards of a significantly faster,
more robust wireless experience with the company's commercial launch of
its 1XRTT network. The 1XRTT network will enhance all levels of
wireless communications - from a simple voice call, to full Internet
browsing, streaming video, and email. This high-speed network also
supports enterprise applications, giving companies with mobile
employees tools for increased productivity and efficiency.
The company is the first U.S. wireless carrier to commercially launch a
sizeable 3G footprint. The 1XRTT network is available now to
customers in areas of the Northeast U.S., from Norfolk, VA Washington,
D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, up to Boston and in Portland,
Maine; in the technology-savvy Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay
Area of Northern California; and in Salt Lake City, site of the 2002
Winter Olympics. 1XRTT network capabilities are already available in
more than 20 percent of the Verizon Wireless footprint, reaching more
than 53 million Americans.
The Express Network is Verizon Wireless' 1XRTT data network, capable of
data transmission speeds up to 144 kilobits per second (kbps.) Business
customers and individual consumers in Express Network markets may take
advantage of high wireless data speeds and robust Internet access by
using the new Verizon Wireless 2235 handset from Kyocera with a
compatible Mobile Office kit as a modem for their laptops, or by using
the AirCard 555 PC card from Sierra Wireless, for their laptops and
select PDAs. Express Network subscribers on the high-speed data
network can now have access to their company network or Internet at
faster speeds.
The Express Network will give users full Internet access, intranet
access and traditional email functionality via a laptop at
unprecedented speeds for wireless access. Users should expect average
speeds between 40 and 60 kbps, significantly higher than speeds being
produced by competing technologies and comparable to what PC users get
when using a dial-up Internet service at home.
The rollout of our Express Network is a major expression of our
differentiation in the wireless marketplace: the high quality of our
wireless network," said Verizon Wireless chief technical officer Dick
Lynch. "Wireless data is only as good as the network it's on, and the
premier Verizon Wireless network, already the most advanced in the
nation, just took another giant step ahead of its competitors." Lynch
added, "We will continue expansion of the Express Network, and by the
close of 2002 the majority of the nearly 222 million covered POPs
should be able to use the Express Network every day."
"Together with the nation's most expansive network, Express Network
gives our customers a strategic advantage as they continue to
increasingly rely on wireless products for their business and personal
communications needs, " said Lowell McAdam, executive vice president
and chief operating officer of Verizon Wireless. "Given the very
positive response from the participants who previewed the 1XRTT network
this fall, we are confident that our high-speed data network will
fulfill and exceed our customers' expectations."
Verizon Wireless and Accenture Join Forces for the Enterprise
In conjunction with the Express Network launch, Verizon Wireless also
announced an alliance with Accenture (NYSE: ACN) to market and sell
mobile enterprise applications offered by the Accenture Mobile Service
Bureau. Through the alliance, Verizon Wireless and Accenture will be
able to offer enterprise customers access to a wide variety of
integrated mobile solutions deployed via Verizon Wireless' Express
Network as well as Verizon Wireless' existing coast-to-coast digital
network.
The Accenture Mobile Services Bureau takes the uncertainty and
complexity out of deploying enterprise mobile applications by
pre-integrating core solutions in a hosted environment. This provides
companies with enterprise-grade security, coordinated logistics and
provisioning for the distribution of wireless devices, high-caliber
customer service and wireless network integration with Verizon
Wireless' premier network. This allows companies to deploy mobile
applications easily, more quickly and at a reduced cost.
"By tapping into Accenture's experience in developing mobile solutions
and platforms, we can provide our business customers with a faster,
simpler way to achieve the benefits of mobility for their employees,
customers and suppliers," McAdam said.
Express Network Pricing
Customers with a monthly digital voice calling plan of $35 or more can
sign up for the Express Network, which lets customers use any of their
airtime allowance minutes for voice or data, for an additional $30 per
month. Verizon Wireless also anticipates introducing plans based on
kilobyte usage in the near future for customers and enterprises that
prefer such pricing.
Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 is 1XRTT Compatible
The Sierra Wireless AirCard 555, which retails for $299.99 will enable
customers to add voice, circuit-switched data and short messaging
service capabilities to their laptops, select PDAs, and other computing
devices.
"Sierra Wireless is pleased to provide Verizon Wireless with the first
PC Card product for its next generation service," said Jason Cohenour,
senior vice president of distribution for Sierra Wireless. "We look
forward to continuing our long-standing partnership with Verizon
Wireless, providing the award winning AirCard 555 as an important
element of the fast and reliable wireless connectivity provided by the
Verizon Wireless Express Network."
The Tethered Solution From Verizon Wireless
Beginning today, the Verizon Wireless 2235 by Kyocera, a 1XRTT
data-compatible wireless handset, will be available through Verizon
Wireless corporate sales and in those Communications Stores where the
Express Network is available. The tri-mode wireless handset, which
retails for $79.99, is a communications system that includes many
attractive features: voice-activated dialing, a WAP browser, electronic
games, two-way text messaging, and predictive text-input software for
rapid text entry. With a subscription to the Express Network and a
compatible Mobile Office kit, sold separately for $79.99, the 2235
offers customers the opportunity for faster Internet access. The
company expects to announce more wireless handset options soon.
"Kyocera Wireless is pleased to support Verizon Wirleless' launch of
their Express Network with our new Kyocera 2235 1XRTT wireless
handset," said Skip Speaks, president and COO of Kyocera Wireless Corp.
"The wireless industry has eagerly anticipated the launch of 1X, and
Kyocera Wireless is proud to offer the first 1X phones commercially
available on Verizon Wireless' Express Network."
Express Network equipment and service are available through Verizon
Wireless corporate sales, select Communications Stores, or by calling
1-800-308-DATA.
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