The money is intended not for weapons, but for medical and communication supplies, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said.
It is the site of the dryly entitled but fascinating Laboratory for Communication Between Humans and Interactive Media, which is the domain of a genial, enthusiastic professor called Clifford Nass who studies how people and machines get on, particularly when the machines talk to the people.
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This highlights the need for reliable and back-up communication systems, but also for better educated communities that are aware of risks and can take responsibility for their own safety.
Satellites beyond Earth use radio waves for tracking and communication, but the moon satellite is the only one to rely on lasers for tracking, NASA said.
In questioning before Congress, he acknowledged that the program could be renamed, but defended the need for good communication between airlines and regulators.
The world may have gotten a lot smaller in that time, thanks to advances in electronic communication, but for travelers, it's also gotten a lot bigger.
"The use of the internet for commerce and communication is a force for good, but it also poses new and growing threats that government, businesses and individuals cannot ignore, " she said.
But, for some purposes, efficient communication is mass communication, regular, cheap, quick and reliable.
We're social creatures, but for much of evolution, instant communication involved talking face-to-face.
He said the cases varied in severity but it highlighted the need for better communication at a political and strategic level.
The service provider not only takes responsibility for managing the technology but also for making sure the process works, including effective communication between divisions within the company and with outside suppliers and partners.
In the U.S., Europe and parts of Asia which are deeply saturated with smart, mobile devices, consumers may eventually decide the smartest machines they own are no longer pocketable slabs for wireless communication, but the watch or glasses they can wear and barely have to handle.
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Online technologies have become enormously useful for increasing the speed and efficiency of communication, but they have a long way to go before they become the primary source for creating and maintaining quality human relationships.
How costs and benefits are apportioned is important, but equally important are the necessary protocols for communication and coordination between micro-grid and grid.
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Argon, founded in 1997, is involved in intelligence, cyber security, and C4ISR, which is essentially communication, but officially stands for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
Smartphones and email-equipped feature phones have proliferated in even the most resource-dry areas of Asia, Europe and North America, but for many subscribers in Africa, SMS is the only option for text-based communication on the go.
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"We didn't have a huge amount of communication, but you start looking for inconsistencies, " he says.
Box.net started as a storage tool for employee-to-employee communication but was not focused on sending files across companies, Koon says.
Information technology can and should expand your range of communication, but cannot be a substitute for interactions that build trust, share vision, and enhance community.
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But now there are millions of machines being used for communication, commerce, and culture, creating more data in a day than has existed in entire millennia of civilization.
We certainly need them, and they are vital for communication and engagement with consumers, but if we ignore the basics, we will be failing as marketing professionals and business people.
Ants, bees and wasps form complex communities but do not seem to rely on facial characteristics for their communication.
But delegates did begin to lay plans for cross-border communication and cooperation in the event of major meltdowns: work-arounds so commerce can continue and emergency services can be provided if systems collapse.
But for all of the visitors' opening endeavour, a calamitous communication breakdown between Sol Campbell and David James gifted Vassell the opening goal.
By acquiring Tumblr, Yahoo would instantly gain a social-media site that has become a hub of communication and blogging for millions of people, but one that generates little revenue.
Mr. Beyer said he doesn't fault Mr. Cuomo for the state's storm response, but said better communication could have ended the gas shortage days earlier, and helped to quell some of the panic that gripped New Yorkers when the shortage didn't immediately subside.
Some interoperability experts say these gateways are a solid interim solution for short-term use--especially when rescue workers from other jurisdictions are aiding in disaster relief--but should not be considered ideal, permanent systems for inter-agency communication.
In all the stir over this issue, it's important to remember that not only have modern means of transport and communication made it easier for movement to occur, but also technology has made it harder to chart the effects once it does.
On-line data centers are increasing their capacity to deal with this increased demand for processing power, communication speeds and digital storage capacity but despite the increases in efficiency of enterprise equipment and software there is a price to pay for universal connectivity and general on-line resources.
Also, I do think this latest problem came out of an attempt to provide more value for buyers and sellers, but the privacy issue combined with their lack of communication and listening to their community has created some ugly fallout.
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