But it's happening across industries, a creative conjoining of mobile-computing brawn, faster wireless speeds and data-crunching in the computing cloud.

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Particularly insidious is the conjoining of these two forces against their common foe: sovereign, free nations led by the United States.

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Chuah, a researcher at the lab of the Accenture consulting firm, is developing new technologies in instant messaging and online commerce aimed at conjoining the physical and virtual worlds as never before.

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In between, there is barely a pause for thought, and the film works hard as a historical solvent rinsing away the traditional enmities between the white man and the Native Americans, and conjoining the good, the bad, and the ugly into a battle with their common foe.

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