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`Zipit rules wireless
`messenging world
`
`ERIC GWINN
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`Knight Ridder Newspapers
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`T
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`he K-Byte Zipit Wireless Messenger sends
`and receives instant messages from IM
`buddies on AOL, Yahoo or MSN.
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`On any given day, 13 million people are using
`IM, according to the Pew Internet & American
`Life Project.
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`Texting on a mobile phone can cost 10 cents a
`message. It costs nothing to use the $100 Zipit
`Wireless. All you need is a free IM account and a wireless connection at home or on t
`including in libraries, hotel lobbies and coffee shops.
`
`I've been using the Zipit for a week. The device quickly found my home wireless netw
`is compatible with the 802.11b and 802.11g standards) and asked for my network's
`After a few presses of the comfortably spaced rubberized keys on the thumbpad, I'd
`AOL IM account, and the Zipit automatically imported the names from my buddy list.
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`The Zipit is a relative newcomer to mobile messaging. The $100 Motorola Imfree is w
`needs to be within 150 feet of an Internet-connected PC and base station. The $80 (w
`AT&T Wireless Ogo outdoes the Zipit by adding e-mail, but it requires a $20 service a
`charge, and you pay as much as $18 a month or more for unlimited chats and e-mai
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`Overall, the Zipit is the king of mobile instant messaging. It's available at Amazon.co
`Target.com, at Best Buy stores in Canada, and K-Byte hopes to get the Zipit into U.S
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`http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/entertainment/11095314.htm
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`3/10/2005
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`ZIPIT EX. 2034, pg.1
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