Smith Corona was for generations a proud name in typewriters, the dominant office machine for nearly a century. How well I remember packing my electric Smith Corona off to college, feeling well equipped to do battle with term papers. Nowadays Smith Corona relics fetch maybe 20 bucks on Ebay. Senior Editor Nikhil Hutheesing warns that wireless is going to change the Internet so dramatically that today's Web portals could go the way of Smith Corona and others who failed to keep up with change. Portal strongholds like Yahoo and AOL, tollgates to the wired Internet, will have the tables turned when wireless service providers like Vodaphone and Sprint PCS, control the first, second or even third screens you see.
Portal holders are aware of the threat.
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