In the past twenty years, businesses and private citizens alike have embraced the use of computers, electronic communication devices, the Internet, and e-mail.

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Computers power the virtually instantaneous communication and information capabilities that are transforming purchasing, sales, innovation, marketing, and organizational structures.

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For Intel, the opportunity lies in the chips that it could sell for sensors, communication equipment and computers to process and display data.

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It works on phones or computers, and tracks a company's overall communication activities and costs at a central location.

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In finance, standards can take years to define as working groups from banks, securities firms and depositories meet repeatedly to hash out what needs to be in a message and ways to make it machine-readable so the communication can be handled by computers with straight-through processing (STP) and not require any expensive, time-consuming and error-inducing human intervention.

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The ship, the USS Mount Whitney, is the Navy's only Joint Command Ship and is considered to be the most sophisticated ship ever commissioned in terms of communication, control, command, computers and intelligence capabilities, according to the Navy's Web site.

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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.

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Second, the terrorist networks and the states that support them rely heavily on computers for communication.

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