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Article: Chicago Tribune Ask Jim Column.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- July 8, 2001
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By James Coates, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 8--QUESTION: My husband and I go on long cross-country trips in the car, and he asked me if it were possible to be on the Internet while connected to our cell phone. I don't think that's the way, but it got me wondering if one of these new wireless devices might be the answer. Urban legend or reality? How can I find out?
Lynda Phillips @ix.netcom.com
ANSWER: As Richard Nixon says on those Watergate tapes, we can do this, Ms. P., but it would be wrong.
A number of digital wireless services such as Sprint and Verizon offer Internet to laptop computers by way of ...