Word: protocols
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...warming up for his next disruptive act, hitting mobile operators where they really hurt: in the voice business. Polk is prodding consumers and businesses to make cheap Internet-based VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls through the Cloud's hot spots. VOIP has already eaten into the traditional fixed-line business. It's now poised to do the same thing to mobile operators, threatening to take a chunk of what London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says will be a $550 billion mobile-voice business by 2010. Polk volleyed in July, when he partnered with VOIP champion Skype...
Merita's bid to become Northern Europe's phone-in bank of the future depends a lot on the latest technology. Customers can use cutting-edge wireless application protocol (WAP) browsers, built into the latest generation of European phones, which allow customers to enjoy full Internet access to their accounts. WAP phone owners can check account balances, pay bills, transfer money and even buy shares on the Finnish stock market...
Asked about the potential protocol for an uncontested election, Election Commission Chairman Michael L. Taylor ’08 wrote in an e-mail that there were no provisions for such a contingency...
...such as Doris Schroeder-Kopf , wife of Gerhard Schroeder, kept an office in the Chancellery so as to be available for public functions, Merkel and Sauer have worked out an arrangement in which "whenever he can make time, he will be with her," explains Alexander Freiherr von Fircks, former protocol adviser for the German Government. He says Sauer's reluctance to appear at public functions in Germany is not about gender or "ill will" - "Professor Sauer has a 14-hour workday; he just has a very tight schedule." Nor, however, adds Langguth, "does he want to carry her handbag...
...Science and Technology, said that the U.S. should lead the formation of a new set of global standards that would reduce the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to economic output in the short-term and develop tradeable rights to emissions based on population in the long-term. The Kyoto Protocol, which commits nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, will expire in 2012. The U.S. has not ratified the agreement. “The United States must switch from being a laggard in climate change policy to being a leader if the world as a whole is going...