Other "tele-romance" devices that are still in the prototype phase are even more science fictional--and bizarre.
Two hundred and fifty hospitals from Alaska to Virginia have installed a version of the tele-I.
His firm has long-term contracts with both Navteq and Tele Atlas, but he's keeping his eyes open.
The hospital staff have an OnStar-like button in every room that they can push to summon the tele-I.
Ever more petit bourgeois, consumerist and fascistic, the tele-stupefied country has lost all awareness of culture and language.
Gruber and Wheeler like Tele Nordeste Celular, the leading cellular player in Brazil's northeast region, with 2 million subscribers.
She's landed a cable commitment from Tele- Communications, Inc. and an offer to raise big bucks from Morgan Stanley.
Antitrust regulators are unlikely to block either the Navteq or Tele Atlas deal.
The hospital also has an award-winning tele-medicine unit which links medics in war zones with specialists at the hospital.
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India has established dedicated satellite systems for education and tele-medicine delivery, which can reach even the most remote rural population.
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After a stint leading ill-fated tech company Tele-TV, he took a vaguely defined job as president of Sony Corp. of America in 1997.
"I laugh when I hear that you can make a map by community input alone, " says Tele Atlas founder De Taeye.
Tele Atlas pulls information from lots of sources, including states' departments of transportation and utilities, and uses algorithms to arbitrate conflicts.
Smaller players are hoping for a larger third player to come in and recreate what Navteq and Tele Atlas have built.
While Morgan might be feeling a little self-conscious on the tele, his wit and journalist instincts make him a premier Twitterato.
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Eli Noam, the director of Columbia University's Institute for Tele-Information, calls the consolidation a natural evolution to achieve scale and diversify risk.
On-the-horizon technologies like "tele-immersion" promise to make someone you've only met online appear as real as the person sitting right next to you.
Like the tele-evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, another of Louisiana's fallen idols, Mr Edwards was the son of sharecroppers, raised among blacks and French-speaking Cajuns.
In the event, Banco Opportunity did not bid for Tele Norte Leste, which was bought by Telemar, a ramshackle group of local investors.
Tele-retailing giant HSN asked if I would be interested in designing a line just for them and then appear on TV to sell it.
Other technologies enabled by Tele Atlas' ultra-accurate map will include lane departure warnings for drowsy drivers and adaptive headlights that know corners are coming.
The group, Organizing for Action, held a tele-town hall Saturday featuring Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayor who was Obama's White House chief of staff.
The World Bank has a tele-medicine network, which conveys medical findings in the United States to hospitals in the farther reaches of Latin America.
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Finance Minister Francois Baroin, in an interview Saturday for French television network i-tele, said France had "full confidence" in the strength of the U.S. economy.
TomTom and Garmin made rival bids for Tele Atlas this year, with TomTom likely sealing the deal with a 2.9 billion offer in November.
It then provides traffic data, forecasts and services in 35 countries to clients including Audi, BMW, Ford, MapQuest, Microsoft, Tele Atlas, Toyota and Vodafone.
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The stock's liquidity should increase when parent Telecom Italia merges Tele Nordeste later this year with Tele Celular Sul, an operator it owns in southern Brazil.
While services such as Tele Atlas collect information from many sources, including users, Waze has put crowd-sourcing at the center of his effort to build maps.
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