Word: connectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much interest in what is, after all, only a slice of thin air? Because that thin air has been set aside to create "personal communication ! services" that may someday connect everybody to everybody else -- like the phone system does today, but without those constricting telephone wires. Through streams of digital data, PCS providers could deliver all kinds of exotic services, from smart cars that call for help when they've been stolen to vending machines that order their own refills. They could be the foundation for a wireless electronic-mail network -- a kind of information highway of the airwaves -- through...
...focused on what is known in the business as pots -- plain old telephone service, or in this case, plain old wireless telephone service. The Baby Bells want to use wireless PCS phones to extend their reach outside their local regions. The long-distance carriers want to use them to connect to customers without having to pay monopoly rates (45 cents on every dollar) to the Baby Bells. And the cable-TV operators need the revenues from wireless telephone to defray the cost of turning aging, one-way cable systems into modern, switched two-way networks. Said Tele-Communications...
...three singers strive to connect themselves to old, grand traditions. They use Celtic imagery, and Keineg sings one song, the stately O Iesu Mawr, in Gaelic; O'Connor quotes William Butler Yeats on the liner notes of her CD, and O'Riordan pays him tribute in the song Yeats' Grave. This awareness of a particular past helps distinguish their songs from the typical rootless algae of pop music. In his poem A Coat, Yeats wrote, "I made my song a coat/ Covered with embroideries/ Out of old mythologies/ From heel to throat." As modern women conscious of an Irish heritage...
...consider our in-room data jacks. Through these jacks, every student can connect his or her computer to the network. This is not unusual, as other schools and businesses throughout the world have networked PCs in this manner...
...former site of the Crib, a Freshman Dean's Office service will help first-years who want to connect to the computer network, according to store manager Nancy L. Williams...