That's the promise of Flair, which AirSpeak says will offer employees wireless access to their desktops from anywhere on a corporate campus. You can use it to shop from wherever you are. Qpass' new TalkWallet cell-phone service lets consumers make purchases simply by talking into the phone. It uses Nuance Communications' speech-recognition software to match a spoken ID number with consumers' unique voiceprint, asks what they want to buy, then charges the purchases to their Qpass account. Taxis can also be hailed with Sprint's new IQtaxi, a cell-phone service that arranges cab and limo rides nationwide.
Users enter the trip information and the service sets up the transportation.
There have been at least 327 closures since January 2000. The blitz is designed to show prospective customers that the vendors' technologies can handle the unpredictable demand and huge volumes of data generated by E-commerce. The five hint that the road show could lead to more formal alliances. It could be information overload. Our representatives got about 80 million E-messages last year, twice as many as two years ago, and that number is rising by about 1 million a month.