Word: accession
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...parents, and I haven't been there as much as I would have liked over the years." Douglas' and Zeta-Jones' friends weren't the only ones paying out at the wedding. It's rumored that the happy occasion was sponsored by a magazine in return for exclusive photographic access...
Wireless Ethernet--in which users access the network via an "air port"--is much more convenient for users and is cheaper to put in place than roaming, Gusmorino says...
...laundry lines in every Indian city. In the '90s, they were installed to bring cable TV to urban Indians. These days, they're being transformed into broadband Internet connections. There are 30 million cable connections--compared with 20 million telephone lines; 2 million people in Bombay have high-speed access to the Internet, often by way of a television set, not an expensive PC. (There are 75 million TVs in India.) A slew of companies, including Enron and Hughes Telecom, are building fiber-optic networks to boost those numbers...
...Wired Village Warana," a $600,000 information-technology project initiated by the federal government. All the villages in the area have computer kiosks that are linked to a central network, and training centers have been opened in six villages to impart computer education to rural youth and provide access to the Internet...
...Connectivity promises to transform a way of life that could be mistaken for timeless. Warana's project is providing farmers with access to essential information. The network keeps detailed records of all transactions with local sugar and milk cooperatives; it lists prices of farm produce in the region's agricultural markets (to help farmers decide what to plant or where to sell their produce); and it offers a daily weather forecast...