The consumer is becoming ever more tech savvy which means that muddling along like Microsoft did through the Windows market and waiting until a version 3.1 product before the product is usable will not cut it anymore.

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"We're challenging our dynamic and ever-growing tech community to 'Re-Own the Phone' and provide their ideas on what the future of payphones could entail, " said Bloomberg.

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Further, thanks to planned investments by companies like Cisco, 3Com, Lucent, Microsoft, United Technologies, Motorola and Texas Instruments, if Congress approves normal trade with China, expect American and world markets to be flooded with ever higher-tech Chinese goods: broadband routers, telecommunications switches, semiconductors, servers, applications software and aerospace engine parts.

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