Wireless Zone World, Started With One Store

Cell phones began as a way to communicate while on the road.

Today, the handheld device is a portal to access the Internet, a communicator, an entertainment center with the capacity for music and audio content, and a handheld portable computer with GPS. As a shopping and advertising vehicle, the device has the capacity to become an electronic wallet. There are applications being developed to provide even more power and access.

"We haven’t even scratched the surface,"' said Russ Weldon, CCO and founder of Wireless Zone, in the industry since "day two" of its deployment.

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Plug In To Business Programs, Connecticut

Thinking of growing your business, expanding marketing development, or upgrading technology in an offshoot enterprise?

The state of Connecticut's outreach “Connecticut’s Business Connections” is offering regional business connection sessions across the state, an opportunity to meet one-on-one with representatives from DECD, Connecticut Innovations, the Connecticut Development Authority, Regional Revolving Loan Funds, ConnSTEP, and many others. The dates, locations and start times are:

March 18: 9 a.m. to noon, Wachovia Bank Building, 2nd floor, 900 Bridgeport Ave., Shelton;

March 31: 9 a.m. to noon, Western Connecticut State University, Ancell School of Business, president’s room, 218, Mill Plain Rd., Danbury;

April 9: 9 a.m. to noon, Manufacturing Alliance of Connecticut Building, 173 Interstate Lane, Waterbury.

Character, Defined in Real-Time

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher and poet

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."

-Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, noted statesman and orator, Nobel Prize-winning writer, artist

To follow the day of a new President of the United States, visit the official scrapbook for the day at Tumblr or see the Official Presidential Inaugural Committee Twitter log at http://twitter.com/obamainaugural for other real-time communications.

Photo: Barack Obama speaking at Wesleyan University Commencement, Middletown, Conn., May 25, 2008.