Photo attachments require huge gobs of bandwidth compared with ordinary e-mail.

FORBES: Digital Rules

The telephone-equipment companies want voice dialling (useful in cars), automatic call-centres, computerised operator-services and messaging that allows users to pick up and send e-mails and faxes on an ordinary telephone anywhere in the world.

ECONOMIST: Can machines talk? From next month they will

Can the same high-tech tools trained on potential terrorists--hidden cameras to pick faces out of the crowd, software to listen in on phone calls and e-mails--be turned against ordinary U.S. citizens?

FORBES: Life During Wartime

This vision was captured most vividly by the so-called Shahbag movement, a spontaneous gathering in Dhaka of thousands of artists, students and ordinary people who rallied to demand the death penalty for another Jamaat-e-Islami mass murderer let off with a life sentence by the court in February.

WSJ: Sadanand Dhume: Bangladesh on the Brink

Before Wednesday, he was largely unknown, mentioned in passing in one or two news reports as having sent an e-mail to Myers confirming that WorldCom's accounting for ordinary expenses as capital expenditures could not be justified.

FORBES: WorldCom And The Mystery Of Buford Yates

Every night I read letters and e-mails sent to me from people across America -- ordinary folks, people who share their hopes and their hardships, their faith in this country, their frustration with what's happened in this economy.

WHITEHOUSE: Job Creation and Economic Growth