COMPANY SEES NEW VISTAS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION.Byline: William McCall Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Nancy Melone and Tim McGuire are the typical busy couple of the '90s - she's a University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. business professor; he's the dean. But they've found a typically cutting-edge way to stay in touch. Thanks to laptop computers and a wireless Internet link on campus, they can chat by e-mail - anytime, anywhere. The wireless system, Ricochet A wireless Internet service from Ricochet Networks, Inc., Denver, CO (www.ricochet.net). Originally developed by Los Gatos, CA-based Metricom, Inc., Ricochet was the first high-speed, wireless Internet service for commuters. , was created by Metricom Inc., starting with students and corporate parks and lately expanding to consumers. Backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Metricom has linked the entire San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay and is also hooking up Seattle and Washington, D.C. In the next three years, Metricom plans to cover up to 50 metropolitan areas with wireless access to laptop computer users across the nation. ``We take the laptop computer and hook it to the Internet, and those are two explosive markets,'' said Bill Swain, chief financial officer of the Los Gatos, Calif.-based Metricom. Metricom networks are part of a growing move into mobile digital communications. AT&T Wireless Service recently announced plans for PocketNet, a cellular phone that will browse the Internet for information like phone numbers, flight schedules and e-mail. Metricom's roots are on college campuses, where it has wired the University of Oregon; Oregon State; Austin College in Sherman, Texas; the University of Miami This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University. The University of Miami (also known as Miami of Florida,[2] UM,[3] or just The U in Florida; California Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. ; the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB)See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. and Santa Cruz; and Stanford. ``It's amazing, because just two years ago, getting onto the Internet seemed like a dream,'' said Kevin Schaper, a University of Oregon computer science student who's hooked into Ricochet. ``Now I can always get to my machine, no matter where I am.'' For many computer users, a Ricochet connection takes the place of a second phone line, freeing up their main number for old-fashioned talking. The cost per month - $29.95 for a regular hookup hookup, n in the Trager method of therapy, the practitioner enters into a meditative state along with the patient, which allows him or her to work more intuitively and to feel subtle changes in the patient's movement and tissue texture. and $19.95 for students - is often less than the price of a second line and separate Internet access through a commercial provider. ``It really is slick,'' said Gordon Andersen, an Oregon State bookstore manager who sells the system and helps students set it up. ``A lot of people are getting more mobile, and they need access to a computer network.'' Metricom customers plug small wireless modems about the size of a TV remote control into a laptop computer. They relay signals to larger modems about the size of a shoe box, hung on utility poles, which in turn relay signals to leased telephone lines.The signals are routed to Houston and linked to the Internet. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Nancy Melone, a professor at the University of Orego n, shows off her laptop and wireless modem used to send e-mail and files. Associated Press |
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