Path to 4G : Major technology trends to watch -- Brief history of the cellular industry -- Radio spectrum: Managing a scarce resource -- Digital signal processors -- 2.6G systems: An interim solution -- Wireless Internet market -- Third Generation (3G) systems -- Incredible shrinking computer -- Power of the network -- Molecular-scale electronics and quantum computing -- Digital big bang, quantum mechanics, and the cosmos -- Wearable computers and wireless ubiquitous computers -- Planetary computer -- 4G networks -- Choosing the computer technologies for 4G -- Selection of the air-interface for 4G -- 4G personal communicator: Star Trek technology -- 4G portals: Wireless AOLs -- Broadband fixed wireless access -- NTT DoCoMo-Crouching 4G tiger; Sony-hidden dragon -- Why China will adopt 4G

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