Many cheap mobile handsets allow users to play video games and surf the net.

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There are several people in my department who frequently talk and surf the net all day long.

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Why not Wi-Fi up the downtown so that entrepreneurs can sit in coffee shops and surf the Net?

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In your car, you'll be able to surf the Net, get e-mail, buy and sell shares and carry on conference calls.

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"People who used to love to shop now surf the net to find the best deal, " says Mike Moriarity, leader of A.T.

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Perhaps less surprisingly, females are more likely to visit retail sites, whereas males surf the net in search of computer games, cars and sports.

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In Asia, where far more people carry cellphones and watch TV than surf the Net, the investments also acknowledge that Internet content will in the future be accessed over different types of wired and wireless networks and on various devices, not just computers.

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And I also spent an enormous amount of time surfing the Net, mostly netting scary news about the surf.

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