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Google could change (and rule) the wireless Internet

By Sinead Carew, Reuters
NEW YORK -- Google will have to create a new verb for wireless Web searching if it is to keep its role as the Internet trendsetter.
Google, a search engine so widely used on personal computers that its name became a verb, has a chance to trounce rivals by making Web searching more practical on gadgets like mobile phones, analysts say.

"The mobile game is wide open," Gartner analyst Michael King said. " ... It's one of the last frontiers."

No Internet company has yet emerged as a big brand in wireless, he added.

Relatively few people use phones to view the Web, but market researcher Yankee Group said Internet access will be available on most of the 552 million mobile phones it expects to be sold worldwide this year.

As the wireless Internet grows, Google and rivals Microsoft and Yahoo hope to benefit.

Google itself said in April that if it doesn't launch products that improve Web searches on handheld devices, it will fail to win a significant share of an increasingly important part of the online market.

"My gut feeling is it could be a competitive necessity for select Internet companies" to adapt their services for mobile, said IDC analyst Keith Wayras. He expects 30 million people, or 17% of U.S. mobile subscribers, to use the Web on phones in 2006, up from about 7% in 2003.

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OT: Wong!
In NNOS this morning @ .043 looks like a steal to me! Read her most recent Pr's, its a bit criptic but looks big for pps!!!??
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The only mistake anyone can make w/CMKX is sell to early. She's not begun to run....

Hopefully NEOM will stay low for a bit, to give us time to load up @ these discount prices..... All just my opinion for what little I know ;)

HOLDING NEOM LONG!!