Some laptops had a built-in, or auxiliary cellular telephone connection so that live mainframe data was available while roaming around the booth. Other systems shown were local area networks which interconnected by means of a radio signal. This is of interest to users in temporary quarters, or where the cost of running cabling is excessive. The Internet emphasis took two directions. One is the use of the Internet for low cost communications between various divisions of companies.
Manufacturing companies can use the Internet for direct access to material vendors' inventories.
Some fax vendors provided tools to process large volumes of documents over the Internet. The second application of Internet techniques is based on hyperlinks. By simply clicking with the mouse on an underlined word, the computer transfers the user to that site. In this case, the same method can be used to switch between applications on a single computer, departments, or e-mail. The programming is hidden and use of these click-able words is intuitive, since it does not even require menus.