The new 3G will deliver the Net, e-mail and video images.
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Asia's slowness on the Net means that many companies and businesses had their names snaffled up before the Net and e-commerce entered the region's collective conscience.
Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, predicted that if a lot of spammers exploit this technique it could trigger the failure of the net's e-mail sending infrastructure.
Expect Natalie Massenet, who has already turned a kitchen table business into the global luxury e-tailer Net-a-porter, to pull her new role off with equal aplomb.
So the most successful Asian e-tailers are counting on the Net's global reach for sales.
In mid July, the New York Times accused the FDA of creating a massive e-mail surveillance program designed to net junior scientists and other critics who complained the agency was too-quick to approve medical devices that the employees maintained posed unacceptable health risks.
Like almost everything else associated with the net, e-radio has come up so fast nobody can be sure what will happen with it next.
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Along with millions of other out-of-date and unsecured PCs strung together by the Internet--what Corman calls "the leper colony"--those machines represent a combined mass of computing power responsible for most of the Net's spam e-mails, much of its click fraud, and the vicious "denial of service" attacks that can knock sites offline and even destroy online businesses altogether.
These include charging western users a small fee for sending a certain number of e-mails over the net.
In your car, you'll be able to surf the Net, get e-mail, buy and sell shares and carry on conference calls.
Accessing weather information has replaced technical news as the top use of the Net, and nine out of 10 users now consider e-mail as not just for business anymore.
The bank, in turn, more than doubled its share of E-Trade's total revenue (counting only the net interest income as "revenue") to 26% in one year.
And while the .com suffix has overwhelmingly captured the market's imagination, accounting for about 90% of all registrations, there are plenty of e-commerce opportunities in the less fashionable .net and .org.
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The only part of the net that iTV consumers still seem to be interested in is the sending and receiving of e-mail.
Lewin and Leighton hashed out a basic idea: Connect computers to the far reaches of the Net, then program them to communicate with one another to spot better routes for getting e-mails, Web pages and other packets to where they needed to go.
"When we are using the Net, we will simply be engaged in commerce because e-commerce will then be normal, " he says.
Maintain several net identities and use disposable e-mail accounts to limit the damage if the address gets sold or passed on to spammers or vandals.
The UK's Information Commissioner has unveiled new rules that put limits on the freedom that companies have to monitor what their employees are doing with e-mail and net access.
The essential message from Andersen for Asian e-commerce Netpreneurs is get the back office and fulfillment parts right before rolling out those local Net giants.
An e-mail has a formal structure so it can travel and arrive safely across the net, but the text within it is much more loosely arranged.
Although of course we must remember that his crime was not sending unwanted commercial e-mail, which is permitted if not positively encouraged as a way of using the net for marketing purposes.
But before you start shorting the stocks of stodgy old companies slow to the Net, consider that it will be some time--a long time--before e-commerce really pays off across Asia.
He suggested that Net relationships may be shallower because interaction by e-mail is slower than a conversation, it is more effort to say more about yourself and the people Net users were talking to were "relative strangers".
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