Wi-Fi--known among techies as 802.11, a reference to its underlying technology standard--is an alternative means of Internet access.
In effect, the company wants to turn Twitter into a kind of Internet age alternative to traditional press release services like BusinessWire and PR Newswire.
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These services are also provided through alternative channels such as the internet and telephone banking.
Our customers are happy to engage with the sponsor for a brief period as an alternative to paying for fast Internet access which makes this a win-win for all involved.
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Analysts say professional associations for players and competitions are but a few years away, while it will probably soon be the norm for schools to offer internet gaming as an alternative to more athletic sports.
Like Wells, it has an aggressive, transaction-based culture and has focused on alternative delivery channels, such as the Internet.
Chief Executive Larry Page for years has spearheaded secret research on alternative methods to provide more people with Internet access, and has become more active in thinking about providing wireless Internet access to consumers, said people familiar with the matter.
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John Gauss, commander of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, said he believes the NIPRNET redesign offers a better security alternative than the almost total retreat from the Internet advocated by Lt.
While criticism of Mr dos Santos is growing among small sections of urban Angolans, who are increasingly turning to the internet and social media as an alternative to the heavily censored mainstream media, he still plenty of support.
In the long run, however, Krishnamurthy argues that the companies controlling the Internet have little choice about adopting an alternative such as P4P.
That sort of unbundling will take a while, due to a Byzantine system of contracts, so in the meantime, cable companies can embrace alternative methods of distribution by pushing high-speed internet access, as the Time Warner president said in the article.
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Readers struggling with slow mobile internet connections may soon have a really cool alternative to cellular networks.
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The five-year-old firm, a cable-TV operator with about 30, 000 Manila customers, began offering Internet-over-cable in July as an alternative to conventional dial-up access.
An alternative to traditional brokers is to buy through one of the handful of Internet brokers starting up shop.
Later, he realized that a slightly modified version of his workaround could deliver a less pricey alternative to other trade show exhibitors wanting not to over-pay for Internet access.
Tax breaks for alternative power are good, short term, but remember: Once the Internet was up, eBay didn't need a tax break to start exploring the wealth of information and productivity out there.
Nuance positions its system as an alternative to increasingly complex remote controls used to navigate the content and services available on Internet-connected televisions.
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Affected employees of the Silkroute Holdings Internet company were told they could take paid time off to sort out alternative care for their children without having to use up their vacation.
But you have an attractive alternative available: buy some shares of Sina (SINA), the China-based Internet content company.
The device's robust functionality, which includes Internet access and a customizable app interface, also makes it the ultimate low-cost alternative to a work laptop.
Cable networks are important because they provide "an ideal alternative infrastructure for the provision of a full range of broad-based services, " notably the Internet, the commission official explained.
But Kevin Bankston, an attorney at the Internet free-speech advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sees MyEdge as a healthy alternative to the usual angry-lawyer school of reputation management.
Deprived of income from browsers by Microsoft's policy of giving away its rival Internet Explorer and then making it inseparable from the Windows operating system, Netscape has had to create alternative revenue streams.
"A valid alternative would be to create a single library or repository able to search databases around the world - just like an internet search engine, rather than having one vast library or pass data between each other, " a Home Office spokesman said.
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