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Heavyweights Pump Up Wi-Fi

Parks Associates, a wireless consultancy, sees home networking as a key growth area for Wi-Fi, as households link up computers, printers, and multimedia devices to share broadband wirelessly. By 2006, Parks Associates forecasts one in five U.S. households will have a data network, quadrupling today's number, with 125 million products connected through wireless networks.

From the article "Heavyweights Pump Up Wi-Fi," by Brian Morrissey.

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