By David Batterson
Taking your computer on the road isn't as easy as it used to be. To get anything useful done, you need to be within 10 feet of a phone jack. Not very mobile, is it? With the Intel Wireless Modem, you don't need a phone to keep yourself connected.
Instead, this 1-pound modem works with the RAM Mobile Data Wireless Network, which covers about 90 percent of the urban business community. The Intel Wireless Modem has everything you need to send and receive e-mail. The controls couldn't be much simpler: There's an on/off switch and a mode switch. Two rechargeable batteries are part of the bargain.
In addition to sending e-mail, you can hook another Wireless Modem to your company's LAN and use your wireless modem to exchange messages on the network. For security, all messages are digitally encoded and encrypted, and the RAM net chops up your e-mail, sending separate chunks over different radio frequencies.
Additional software packages are available, including Mac QuickMail support. Here's the "ouch" part: the suggested retail price is US$795.
Intel Corp.: (800) 538 3373, +1 (503) 629 7354, fax +1 (503) 629 7580, BBS: (503) 645 6275, CompuServe: GO INTELFORUM.
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