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...Your television is going to be connected, as is your set-top box ... Your automobile is going to be connected. We're working with BMW, they have wonderful products they're designing into cars coming out in four or five years that can provide real-time information, like traffic updates and other information that's important to you. So having that technology be pervasive and be useful to us, I think will improve the quality of lives. And to me, that's a wonderful opportunity...
...October of 2006, the New York Times reported that the millions of free newspapers distributed to subway passengers were a prime culprit in the clogged storm drains and tunnel fires that harangue the city’s engineers and bring train traffic to a halt. “We have complained bitterly,” said a Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) board member, “about what we call the free newspapers.” The MTA has since launched a poster campaign under the title “Bad News,” instructing passengers what...
Cars were crawling through Mexico City's rush-hour traffic on Tuesday night when a Learjet came hurtling out of the skies, hit a road in the center of the city and burst into flames. As police and ambulances rushed to the scene to carry dozens of injured motorists to the hospital, it was reported that the plane had been carrying Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexico's equivalent of a Vice President. Mouriño died instantly in the crash along with seven others, including a top security adviser and former federal prosecutor, José Luis Santiago...
...rejected the plan primarily because of concerns about overflow traffic onto the University’s already crowded wireless network, said Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 at last evening’s UC meeting. Sundquist said that FAS IT would block Internet feeds for students who attempted to use the Slingbox service...
What works for a legislator - who picks and chooses his battles - might be impossible for a President, however. Given the relentless, unscheduled traffic of crises through the Oval Office, he needs a reliable roster of allies. McCain would probably court the center by appointing some Democrats to his Administration - a move he has signaled throughout his campaign. (He shocked his party when he suggested New York liberal Andrew Cuomo to head the Securities and Exchange Commission and said he would love to have Obama supporter Warren Buffett as his Treasury Secretary.) He might be able to sign...