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Byline: Gary Flood.

It's fairly common in the technology industry to find something of a gap between what suppliers try to market and what users are prepared to spend money on. The best example of this is probably in web services, heavily promoted by the IT industry as the next big thing, but still seen as an experiment by many.

Even more striking is the situation over WiFi, or wireless local area networks (WLans). On the one hand, every new copy of Microsoft XP and Office has a button for connecting to the nearest wireless server available; on the other, actual takeup has been limited.

Nonetheless, anyone in ...

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