Like Dulaney, House believes 3Com will be forced to yield to the market impetus building up behind WAP.

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"For 3Com to take on Microsoft and all the other players would be suicide in my opinion, " Dulaney said.

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"Samsung's strategy is to make whatever the market needs, " said Ken Dulaney, vice president at the tech consultancy Gartner.

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Other industry sources have indicated to Gartner Group's Dulaney that 3Com will move to the new technology sooner rather than later, Dulaney said.

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The same study found that most workers spend an extra three to five hours a week working at home when they have notebooks, Dulaney said.

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With storage getting smaller even as capacity increases, Dulaney suggests there may not be a need for some users to carry a mobile computing device who otherwise would.

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"These are computers, " says Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney.

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If desktop computers and terminals proliferate in hotel rooms and other locales, Dulaney thinks users could more easily carry personal data files and applications around in tiny memory cards that just plug into any available desktop system.

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