Mr. Nitze stopped watching TV six years ago, but he gets Internet through a small antenna affixed to his roof.

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Aereo would allow consumers to watch and record broadcast TV online by hooking up a small antenna to an Internet connection.

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To combat this giant gray market--where fakes can easily snake their way into the drug supply--Bond and other drug company executives are hoping to turn to a new technology, called radio frequency identification, or RFID, which pairs a tiny microchip with a small antenna.

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When the satellite network is completed in 2003, an ISP in, say, Medicine Hat, Wyoming, that contracts with Teledesic could connect a small, externally mounted antenna to its servers.

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When the iPhone had an antenna problem Jobs made a small apology but followed it up with illustrated testing reports which showed that the problem was minor if nonexistant.

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All its computers now include a built-in antenna which, in conjunction with a networking card, can exchange data with a small base station plugged into a broadband Internet connection up to 45 metres (150 feet) away.

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My family started out with a small black and white TV set that could pick up five or six channels if someone held the antenna just right.

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Aereo streams broadcast TV signals of New York stations to local residents by capturing broadcast signals from the Empire State Building with thousands of small antennas at a site in Brooklyn, and then allowing each subscriber to download the content from an individual antenna.

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