Certainly, it has opened a window to the world for kids like Gao Tangliang, 15, and Sun Jing.
Currently, Internet access is most attractive to young, educated, English-speaking Chinese who can use the Net as a window to the world and a means to communicate with friends and ex-classmates living abroad.
The phone's screen acts as a window on to the augmented world overlaying it with arrows, signs and other cues to help navigate through an industrial plant to the faulty equipment.
Yet it is often tiny merchants, such as mom-and-pop businesses, hobbyists and individual traders, who have been among the first to discover how to use the Internet as a cheap and profitable shop window to the rest of the world.
The year 2009 will indeed, here and across the world, be a chance to recognise this form of communication as an essential liberator, a window on the world for children reading their books (under their bedcovers, as I did), or adults being able to go about their business with confidence - and with the certainty that very few other people will be able to read their secrets.
The 25-year-old Brazilian has been linked with a move to newly-crowned world champions in the forthcoming transfer window after he publicly stated his desire to move to the club in September.
Wii U Panorama View opens a window to the sights and sounds of some of the world's most exotic destinations.
The 311 individual panels from the window reveal a Christian history of the world, as told in the Bible, from Creation to the Last Judgement.
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The World Cup opens a window onto 32 countries, giving spectators a chance to compare styles of soccer.
Sitting in the window seat in this new configuration is sort of a world unto itself, except for the person next to you.
The cell phone is my lifeline to her, but it is also a window that opens into a whole world of potential trouble.
Or, is the exciting World Cup that featured an inspired North Korean team of underdogs a window of opportunity not to be missed, a chance to continue dialogue somewhere, someplace?
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In an opening chapter on how the Middle East plays in American minds, he shows how moments in Middle Eastern history used to be reported in the National Geographic, a popular magazine that at least at one time was a window on the world for millions of middle-class Americans.
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