Subject: ECHELON and the world's Wireless internet (BGB)...
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 060522 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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Hi folks:
Our webmaster sent us the following interesting item. As a preface to
it, let me say something about ECHELON.....
Last night, CBS News "60 Minutes" program spilled the beans about
a HUGE U.S./Canada/U.K., etc. 'communications intelligence intercept
activity,' called ECHELON..... If you happened to catch the program,
you (like the guru) may have caught the importance of one terribly
significant "tiny" little statement that was dropped in.....
ECHELON is a satellite based intercept system that covers the whole
world -- picking up the signals in space and sending them back to
stations in U.S., Canada, U.K., etc.....
For ECHELON to continue to work on a worldwide basis ... the world
must be communicating on **wireless** networks.....!!!
Now ... we know something about the U.S. Government's push for a
"wireless world" ... in preference to land lines, fiber optic cable,
etc....!!!
As long as the world stays wireless ... ECHELON can and IS (!)
reading EVERYBODY'S mail, phones, cell phones, radio, TV, etc......
As long as the world stays wireless......!!!!
Now we know more about WHY the U.S. Government has displayed such
**deafness** about the warnings from this EMF-L network (and many
others more legit and more qualified) concerning the adverse public
health effects of wireless EMR activity......??!!
As long as the world is wireless ... you are not only being "radiated"
beyond "safe" levels ... your mail is being read.....!!!
(Now, to the article which Brendan has forwarded below.... Next time,
Brendan, be sure you tell us the source..... Thanks, Dad.....)
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
NEW!!! Website... http://emfguru.com
...................People are more important than profits.................
DO YOU KNOW OF OTHERS WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST???
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 03:27:45 -0800 (PST)
From: brendan beavers
To: roy@emfguru.com
Subject: Wireless internet
Father,
Thought you might like to see this.
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........Internet Luminaries Herald Wireless Web World
By Aaron Pressman
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - It's no surprise that Bill
Gates, Steve Case and Jeff Bezos would be
the headline speakers at an Internet industry
conference.
But this week the top executives of Microsoft
Corp.(NasdaqNM:MSFT - news), America Online
(NYSE:AOL - news) and Amazon.com (NasdaqNM:AMZN -
news) will steal the limelight at the
U.S. wireless telephone industry's annual gathering
in New Orleans, overshadowing many of the
cellular world's own executives.
This is a sign that the arrival of a long-awaited
wireless Internet market may be at hand, an event
carriers have for several years predicted would boost
their bottom lines.
``Data has always been the next thing, just around
the corner,'' said Dennis Patrick, president of
AOL's newly created wireless division. ``Now it's
really true and the killer app is turning out to be
the Internet.''
Internet firms and carriers alike plan to spend the
week announcing new ventures and futuristic
services, like mobile phones which can be used to buy
stocks or movie tickets, read e-mail and
even transmit video images.
AOL wants to give its 21 million subscribers, and
another 100 million users of its instant messaging
software, the ability to connect no matter where they
go. The No. 1 Internet service provider will
be displaying those applications on wireless devices
at this week's show.
Overall, wireless carriers should collect about $1.5
billion this year from wireless data products
and services, according to analyst Kevin Condon of
Warburg Dillon Read. The market is growing
at an explosive clip, however, and revenues should
hit $31 billion by 2008, he says.
AOL is making ``a pretty aggressive push'', as will
other Internet providers, Condon said. Amazon
is already selling books over the wireless Palm VII
handheld computer and certain phones sold by
Sprint PCS (NYSE:FON - news) (NYSE:PCS - news).
One factor slowing the deployment of new services in
the United States is the lack of
digital-compatible phones. About two-thirds of the 80
million U.S. wireless phone users still carry
old-fashioned analog phones, but the tide is slowly
turning.
A wireless Internet standards war that had threatened
to erupt last year appears headed toward a
peaceful conclusion.
While some companies originally intended to build
wireless devices that could read ordinary Web
pages written in the lingua franca of the Net,
hyper-text mark-up language or HTML, almost
everyone now agrees a special, wireless-oriented
standard called Wireless Application Protocol or
WAP, is required.
WAP will be included in wireless phones, handheld
devices and other simple Internet appliances.
``Web sites will have to be specially coded to be
accessed from WAP-enabled devices,'' said
Scott Goldman, president of the WAP Forum, an
industry standards-setting body.
Such devices are different from personal computers
used to access the Internet now, he said. At
least for the next few years, they will have smaller
screens, often without color, and will connect to
the network at slower speeds.
Already major phone vendors like Motorola Inc.
(NYSE:MOT - news), Ericsson (LMEb.ST) and
Nokia (NOK1V.HE) have agreed to support WAP. At the
CeBit show in Germany last week,
Motorola announced deals with 19 content providers
including Amazon to produce Web sites
compatible with the protocol.
``It's a natural extension to have mobile shopping,''
said Amazon product manager Chuck Napier.
Microsoft, which last year offered an Internet
browser for cellular phones that could read
old-fashioned HTML pages, now will incorporate WAP
support as well.
Company officials were mum about planned
announcements chairman Gates might make. An
internal company memo obtained by C-Net's news.com
Web site said the software giant could
announce distribution deals with major wireless
carriers.
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Brendan Beavers
(webmaster@emfguru.com)
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com