While it works well as a wireless-broadband technology for PCs and laptops, however, the technology is not yet supported in mobile phones.

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Now, he's showing off TechConnect, which lets support personnel connect directly to PCs over broadband.

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It's worth noting, though, that all of these PCs had broadband Internet connections--a dial-up modem would likely provide a far less mellifluous conversation.

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Google knows what we want to know, and builds its search engine around those requests, but that service covers those of us in rich countries with widespread access to PCs and broadband.

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When sharing broadband, it supports both PCs and Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) Macintosh.

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They buy: games at full price, multiple consoles, new smartphones, PCs, tablets, cable TV and broadband, and cars that are outside their means.

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On a brighter note, sales of Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband technology equipment continued gains while revenue from overseas sales of notebook PCs improved.

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Much the way Ethernet changed PCs from stand-alone terminals to local networks and the broadband Internet changed everything else, the full-scale networking of the slot machine will reshape the largest profit stream in the casino business.

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Along with Microsoft's new generation of Internet-oriented software, users will need other non-software technologies tailored for the Web, such as broadband access, wireless communications, smart cards, phones with large screens, handheld computers and PCs with integrated microphones and cameras, Gates said.

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