Bundling the Wired Net With Wireless

A company called RCN is now offering an Internet service package in many parts of the country that includes a wireless device called Blackberry. When you're away from your PC, you're still in touch. RCN's David Epstein...says don't be fooled by the Blackberry's pager-like appearance...

"It's an Intel 386 with a couple megs of RAM in there and a two-way wireless modem. And what it does is it mirrors your Internet email account. So if you're Bob@rcn.com, of course you get all your email on your computer at home when you log in or if you log in from the office, but what this Blackberry does is it extends that email address to your belt. So every message that's sent to you, you receive on your belt, same address, synchronized with your desktop, and if you want to send a message back to someone or out to a group of people....a distribution list...you can bang it out on this little keyboard with your thumbs."