Word: dependence
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...cyberextortion schemes become increasingly common, their targets have another choice: cyberinsurance. Demand for this emerging category of insurance, which will even cover a ransom payment, has jumped as more companies--and not just tech firms--depend on digital networks to do business. Written premiums topped $200 million in 2005, up from $100 million in 2003, according to Aon Financial Services Group managing director Kevin Kalinich, as corporations realize they have to guard against liability in addition to the hackers themselves...
...citywide wireless, and, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco officials have received 26 offers from companies willing to provide wireless to the hilly Californian streets. Though setting up wireless hubs throughout cities will be a pricy and logistically challenging prospect, wireless will increase efficiency for businesses which depend upon the Internet—as well as continue to help lower- and lower-middle-class families log on. We encourage all cities to look into the prospect of going wireless to increase efficiency, and, more importantly, to bridge the technological aspect of the socioeconomic divide. Because of the immense...
...DEAS faculty said that recommendation “provides too little incentive and structure for undergraduates to do advanced work and to develop the kind of superior scientific knowledge on which the advancements of science, engineering, and technology depend...
...Harper era's success may depend on Harper's ability to muster the passion and conviction to sell his vision of Canada's future to an electorate that gave him a mixed-message mandate. That's a tall order for an intensely private man who once hated even the thought of public life and who still lends himself to easy caricature. He allowed photographers to follow him as he walked his two children--Benjamin, 9, and Rachel, 7--to school near the opposition leader's house at Stornoway, only to attract titters from Canadian sophisticates at the pictures...
...does come up with a way to keep the money flowing, it may try to use that to force Hamas to adapt. "If Hamas wants to be in a position to govern, it is going to have to depend on the outside world," says former U.S. Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross. "They're going to try to fuzz the issue and say, 'We'll just deal with internal needs and let Abu Mazen and others deal with Israel and the international bodies,'" says Ross. "But Hamas is going to have to make some choices. They're going to be faced...