10 Things You Need to Know: Wireless Internet Stocks -- Understanding the Monster

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"For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm ... of genius!" -- Gene Wilder, as Dr. Frederick "Fronckensteen" Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein (1974)

Forget Net IPOs and B2Bs. The Next Big Thing in the eyes of Wall Street is wireless Internet. With shares of wireless Internet pure plays like Phone.com(PHCM Quote) and Puma(PUMA Quote) surging, investors have already turned their sights toward this collision of the two fastest-growing global technologies. And with the Consumer Electronics Show looming in Las Vegas this week, the monster of wireless Internet is sure to incite the mobs as well. ...