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Article: Coke, Pepsi or Snoop Dogg? Mobile content to be sold on vending machines.(Business)

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March 29, 2004
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Byline: EMILY MOTSAY

A testimony to how ingrained wireless has become in popular culture, today consumers can purchase advanced mobile content-ring tones, graphics, games-as easily as they can buy a Diet Coke or Milky Way bar from a vending machine.

Recent news surrounding mobile kiosks, or vending machines that spit out wireless services, shows that they are likely to become more pervasive in the future.

SmartServ Online Inc., for example, last week said its subsidiary nReach has partnered with Merit Industries to introduce self-serve mobile content vending-machine products nationwide.

nReach provides mobile ring tones, graphics, ...

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