Word: wireless
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...railways and the complexity of dealing with local bureaucrats. In sectors ranging from pharmacies to DIY stores, recognizable brand names are starting to emerge. Euroset, a seller of mobile phones, is the best example. Its fortunes have soared as Russians across the country have discovered the joys of wireless. The company started out in the mid-1990s with two Moscow stores and began a national push in 2004. In the two years since, the number of its cheerful yellow outlets and the size of its revenues have both increased tenfold. Last year it sold 9 million handsets...
...order to simulate being on the road, I connected a Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess card to my laptop, and dialed up to the carrier's highspeed mobile network. Connecting to the Internet via cellular modem, I was still able to pull up the cable box in my home, even though we could have been a continent apart. Connecting remotely did cost a lot of bandwidth however: at 300 Kbps, South Park and The Colbert Report were watchable, but game highlights from a Tino Martinez retrospective on the Yankees' YES network were wracked with digital blur...
...game. Connecting through my local network, the video was smooth enough. However, the color was pretty bad; there was weird ghosting on the screen, like an underdone psychedelic effect. And there was no video-adjustment wizard to help me out. When I switched over to the Verizon Wireless EVDO card, the viewing was terrible. I couldn't read the score at the top of the screen, or recognize the face of a single player...
...addition to Cold Stone and Little Caesar’s, the shopping center will house a Mexican restaurant, a hair salon, a Cingular Wireless Store, and a branch of a local bank...
...lucky, the coach will turn off the movie. Then you are pretty much forced to strike up a conversation with the guy across the aisle. Although we generally spend about ten hours a day together, there is always something else going on at the field. Between the three televisions, wireless internet access, and numerous meetings that take up time in the clubhouse, it can be hard to get to know your teammate from the next locker over.Our recent road trip to Maryland was also the site of the ultimate team bonding experience: initiation. The surprise initiation called for all first...