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Laptops with the wireless chips built-in will bear a service mark which shows they will work with the third and fourth generation wireless technology.
The branded laptops should be on shop shelves in 91 nations by Christmas.
Looks like the laptop guys are uniting in the face of the inexorable progress of the mobile: "The 16 firms in the Mobile Broadband alliance have pledged to spend about £554m ($1bn) to promote the logo and inform customers about laptops fitted with the technology."
"Laptop makers Dell, Toshiba and Lenovo have signed up to the alliance along with 3, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Ericsson, Orange, Qualcomm and Vodafone." - note there's only one serious mobile-maker among them.
I reckon it's a shame; I'd been betting on the mobile companies coming up with a 'super phone' that utilises android and other open technologies to make a niftier, 'liter' machine that would make a laptop look positively clunky - and obsolete.
Either way, there's two converging technologies that seem determined not to meet in the middle. That's the downside of two-track railways, I guess ;)
