Still, she characterized the technology as an "interim solution" to providing mobile users with wireless Web access.

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Focusing largely on Mexico, Central America and Africa, the decade-old group now aims to bring wireless access to regions with no traditional Web access.

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That's when Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) debuted the Airport, the first cheap Wi-Fi base station that gave people--or at least the blessed few who used Macintosh computers--fast, wireless access to the Web.

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Along with Microsoft's new generation of Internet-oriented software, users will need other non-software technologies tailored for the Web, such as broadband access, wireless communications, smart cards, phones with large screens, handheld computers and PCs with integrated microphones and cameras, Gates said.

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The HP DreamScreen includes 802.11 b or g wireless capabilities to access real-time information from the web.

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Its goal is to create a variety of wireless mobile devices that will give people constant access to the Web, wherever they are.

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There're high hopes for WiMax, which promises to blanket entire cities with Web access for laptops, cell phones and other wireless devices at speeds up to five times faster than traditional wireless networks but is a largely unproven technology.

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For registered users of Picasa Web Albums, users can wirelessly access photo albums directly through both wireless printers without the use of a computer.

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