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Welcome to a world in which the phone becomes a computer, and the computer a phone. Sports Soccer is using voice-over-Internet protocol (VOIP) technology, which allows the transport of voice, data and video over the same network. And as the various kinds of communications become intertwined, the sum is greater than the parts. The phone that the clerk uses is an IP phone from Cisco Systems that packs more punch than your old handset could even dream...
...This Technology's Next Killer App? It has taken many years, but voice-over-Internet protocol is about to change how we use phones...
...Dirty Harry" and "Globocop" rolled into one. But who is a unilateralist now? Last week the Continent's two biggest fish demonstrated how well they, too, can play a self-centered game - and proved that power is a temptation for all nations, not just the U.S. What the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and the International Criminal Court are to America (the U.S. says no to both), the E.U. Stability and Growth Pact is to France and Germany. The pact enjoins all 12 members of the euro bloc to maintain strict fiscal discipline. Above all, they were to keep their...
...attempt eating and drinking at the same time. Balancing two beers and a plate piled high with munchies is a bit precarious and could easily lead to another breach of tailgate etiquette—spilling drinks on another person’s car.In the book of hurling protocol, the bathroom ranks as the number one place to vomit, with the handy flushing capabilities of the toilet and easily accessible running water. The silver medalist—and the more practical course of action if you are in the middle of a field—is “running...
...should be very cautious about jumping to conclusions. What other tools do you need? I don't believe we should allow national control over the sensitive part of the [nuclear] fuel cycle. We need to 'multilaterize' the enrichment of uranium. We also need more countries to sign the additional protocol [allowing tougher inspections]. And we need to address why countries see the nuclear option as so attractive. That is the most difficult. North Korea [for example] is absolutely craving security assurance. This sense of insecurity is what we need to work on, whether the threat is from dictatorships or democracies...