"700 million consumers worldwide are beginning to see online access as an absolute necessity, and there are no signs that the pace of integrating online access into daily life is slowing down."

Read the full trend description to learn all about ONLINE OXYGEN, or scroll down for
ONLINE OXYGEN imagery.

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Last update -- MARCH 2004

 

The entire Sears Building in Chicago, all 110 floors of it, will soon be WiFi enabled.

The world's largest cruise ship, Queen Mary II, has wireless access points installed throughout. It's one giant floating hot spot!

  

 

 

Paris is serious about wireless internet access and holds ambitions to become the WiFi capital of the world. 'WiFi Gare' at the Gare du Nord train station is definitely a good start!

 

 

The United States is following the same track, as Amtrak and AT&T will soon install wireless internet service in six of the railroad's busiest train stations along the Northeast Corridor.

 

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NOVEMBER 2003

 



More handheld, wireless multifunctionality -- this time, it's the Palm Zire 71.


  



Concentration of WiFi access points (hotspots) on the isle of Manhattan. Note that 91,44% of the wireless nodes in Manhattan are below 96th Street, showing a strong correlation with median family income (shown in green on the left map).

  

 




  

Camera-phone flashing crowd at MTV Music Awards in Japan.

The Intel Centrino logo is all over the place. Here, a print ad featured in BusinessWeek magazine.

 

Nokia continues to breathe ONLINE OXYGEN into its print ads about Nokia phones as the new correspondents, mix tapes and organizers. Scroll
down for three other examples, as featured in our October 2003 newsletter.

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OCTOBER 2003




Nokia certainly understands ONLINE OXYGEN: the mobile phone manufacturer recently ran a series of print ads showing
Nokia phones as sound systems, cameras, and game consoles.







 

Sony Ericsson statue in Shanghai.

Sponsored by Intel: One Unwired Day.

  

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ONLINE OXYGEN in New York, Summer 2003.

 

 

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MAY 2003


  

Signs of the wireless times. May 2003, Denver International Airport.