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...Athens International Airport is due in early, he picks up his mobile phone and alerts baggage handlers to scramble a crew quickly. Nothing unusual about that - except that the Cisco-supplied handset that Stefanou and some 100 other airport employees use never touches a mobile network. Instead, it wirelessly taps into the airport's internal network, which transmits the call for free anywhere in the 16-sq-km airport. "It bypasses any mobile or telecom network,'' says Fotis Karonis, the airport's director of information technology and telecommunications. "It's an advantage, because you don't have to call with...
After living in their two-story, Mediterranean-style house in Orange County, Calif., for almost 18 years, Norm Bour, 51, and his wife Peggy, 57, are refinancing for the fourth time. Not only will they lower their house payments by $200, but the Bours will also tap into their equity to the tune of $135,000 to redo their wood floors, pay for Norm's Lexus (now that the lease is up) and pay off their time share in Maui. Their latest loan: a 30-year, $350,000 adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) for a home valued at slightly less than...
...criminals and terrorists to communicate undetected on American soil. But so far, it can't figure out what to do about VOIP--short for voice over Internet protocol, the dirt-cheap phone service that lets users make calls via their cable or DSL modems. Law-enforcement snoops can't tap into conversations or identify the location of callers, even with court orders authorizing surveillance. Given that the number of Internet phone users is expected to triple this year, to 2.8 million, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week responded to a petition from the FBI and other agencies by requiring...
...making that last comment. I was loosening up. ?Remember this?? I asked, and began in my cracked, altogether awful tenor. ?Hi, neighbor, have a ?Gansett/Give that lager beer a chance it/Has that straight from the barrel taste . . .? A couple of others joined in: ?In bottle, can, on tap it?s great/Yes ?Gansett?s got the flavor/Nar-ra-gan-sett flavor/A taste that?s light/But not too light/Straight from the barrel taste/That?s right!/That?s ?Gansett...
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