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Dell goes wide for networking
AUSTIN, Texas -- Dell Computer Corp. (dell) is preparing to take a giant leap into the wireless market.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Dell Computer Corp. (dell)
is preparing to take a giant leap into the wireless market.
The company has been shipping local area network wireless products for its notebooks, based on the 802.11 wireless standard, for about a year. However, it's not satisfied with its local offerings. Now Dell wants to go wide area.
Chairman and CEO Michael Dell described his vision for the ultimate wireless notebook to a group of reporters at Direct Connect, the PC maker's two-day customer confab. Story to follow. -- John G. Spooner, ZDNet News