Volkswagen, Citycab Offer Web Access
Remember when mobile computing meant carrying a notebook computer home from work?
Look at us now. Volkwagen AG is running a pilot program for its Golf eGeneration car. The vehicle, which can only be purchased via the Internet, will come equipped with Internet access, so drivers can use their pocket PCs and mobile phones to link to the Web and check E-mail.
Volkwagen isn't alone in bringing the Web to automobiles. In Singapore, the second-largest taxi company, Citycab, says it will install voice-activated Hewlett-Packard Jornada handhelds with Ericsson wireless Internet access into the back seats of 5,000 cars. Hewlett-Packard and Ericsson eventually will expand the service to the United States.
-- Eileen Colkin
