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Communications Defined

The vast discipline encompassing the methods, mechanisms, and media involved in information transfer. In computer-related areas, communications involves data transfer from one computer to another through a communications medium, such as a telephone, microwave relay, satellite link, or physical cable. Two primary methods of computer communications exist: temporary connection of two computers through a switched network, such as the public telephone system, and permanent or semipermanent linking of multiple workstations or computers in a network. The line between the two is indistinct, however, because microcomputers equipped with modems are often used to access both privately owned and public-access network computers. See also asynchronous transmission, CCITT, channel (definition 2), communications protocol, IEEE, ISDN, ISO/OSI model, LAN, modem, network, synchronous transmission. Compare data transmission, telecommunications, teleprocess.

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State prisons want to jam cell phones

Published September 7, 2008, 5:58 am, The Greenville News

COLUMBIA -- Cell phones, the everyday tool of Americans young and old, have become such a threat inside prisons that state officials have asked the Federal Communications Commission to relax a law prohibiting state and local governments from jamming phone signals.

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Microsoft Deploys 'Gurus' to Help Shoppers

Published September 7, 2008, 5:04 am, TechNewsWorld.com

As part of its new US$300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases. The world's largest software company plans to have 155 "Microsoft Gurus" in U.S. stores by the end of the year.

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Ford's Foray Into the New Auto Space Frontier

Published September 7, 2008, 5:03 am, E-Commerce Times

Ford Motor's newly created business unit to rapidly develop in-car technologies doesn't even have a name yet -- it's been using the working title "Connected Services" as other names are researched -- but there's been no lack of speed, or direction, on the new 40-person team.

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Telecommuting could make our lives better

Published September 7, 2008, 4:06 am, Honolulu Advertiser

As we know from the discussion on rail, more people are living farther away from their jobs, and getting to work is a critical problem for them. Commuters are driving an hour each way — that's 33 work days a year. If people didn't have to commute, things would be easier, don't you think?

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Yo! Don't touch that channel

Published September 7, 2008, 3:37 am, The Morning Call

Comcast Center's high-tech video screen draws Philly Tourists This city best known to tourists for its historical sites and museums has a surprise new high-tech hit that is developing into a must-see attraction: a huge atrium wall in Philadelphia's newest and tallest skyscraper where a cast of dancers and acrobats seem to come to life.

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Technology emerges as issue for presidential candidates

Published September 7, 2008, 3:15 am, San Diego Union-Tribune

MIAMI – Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama promises to appoint the nation's first chief technology officer if elected.

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Executive moves

Published September 7, 2008, 3:10 am, Crain's New York Business

Executives in accounting, advertising, finance, high tech and new media, law and real estate have all found new digs. Check out the new faces in key places.

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Area firms poised to catch clean-tech investment wave

Published September 7, 2008, 3:04 am, The Toledo Blade

FOR A promising solar-energy start-up launched in a research laboratory at the University of Toledo, investment cash has poured in from California's Silicon Valley, Zurich, and Amsterdam. "We are excited to have the opportunity to make this investment and look forward to supporting the company with its growth ambitions," Adam Anders, of the Netherlands' Rabo Ventures, said in announcing it was ...

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Managers adjust to telecommuters

Published September 7, 2008, 2:58 am, The Salt Lake Tribune

With gasoline prices expected to remain uncomfortably high, many small businesses are letting some of their staffers work at home. And some owners are discovering that allowing employees to telecommute can require a different management style, and some basic trust.

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School news

Published September 7, 2008, 1:43 am, The Bay Area Citizen

CCISD getshistory grant Social Studies and history teachers in the Clear Creek School District will soon get the opportunity to visit historical landmarks in Texas and across the country. The U.S. Department of Education awarded the District a $993,000 grant to fund a teacher training program.

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