The market place is also uneasy regarding a serious territorial dispute between China and Japan regarding ownership of a small chain of islands.
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But of course not all machines uses Intel's hardware and until companies start talking to each other our digital devices will remain a chain of islands rather than a border-free mainland.
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The Florida Keys, a 113-mile-long chain of islands, is one of the five suggestions in Lonely Planet's top five day trips from Miami, but the laid-back streets feel more like they belong in the Caribbean.
Its breezy cosmopolitan capital, Papeete, sits on Tahiti's northeastern tip and is the gateway to a captivating world of indigenous culture that infuses a chain of islands spread across 5 million square kilometres of sparkling ocean between Australia and South America.
The chain includes disputed islands that are claimed by China.
The first group of islands in the Bahamas chain, Bimini -- with the small islands of North Bimini and South Bimini at its core -- is only about 50 miles from Miami, but the slow-and-easy lifestyle on the historic atoll feels like a world away.
Hartman died in 1991, but the do-it-yourself ethos among U.S. expatriates continues to pave the way for better tourism in the Exumas, a chain of 365 Bahamian islands and cays (pronounced "keys"), low reefs of sand or coral.
It is the largest island in the Santa Cruz island chain, part of the Solomon Islands nation.
Let's not forget too, that the Brothers Gibb had penned Guilty for Barbra Streisand, Chain Reaction for Diana Ross and Islands In The Stream, for Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.
The families of the would-be refugees are clinging to the hope that they have managed to take shelter in one of the deserted islands in the Bahamas chain.
Then attention turned to French nuclear tests in the South Pacific and the discovery of Chinese structures on islands in the Spratly chain that are claimed by the Philippines.
Bake in searing Florida sun and serve on 45 islands scattershot over a 113-mile-long chain, connected by one long road.
Another is Petter Stordalen, the owner of Nordic Choice Hotels, the largest hotel chain in Norway, who chartered it in August to sail around the Greek islands with his wife, the model-cum-physician Gunhild.
Taiwan was handed back to China at the end of the second world war, but the islands remained under the control of the Americans, who administered them as part of the Okinawa island chain.
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