The Slingbox 500 features built-in Wi-Fi and integrated IR emitters for controlling a set-top box.

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Scientific-Atlanta and Motorola locked up the box market by controlling--in the name of antipiracy--the encoding software that scrambles a video signal at the cable company's hub and descrambles it at the home.

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To do most of the controlling I used this tiny little web server control box called the WACI NX.

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When the ball was turned back into the box by Burke, Ferguson was even more blatant in controlling the ball with his hand before firing home sublimely on the turn from 15 yards.

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Beyond the ballot box, then, rears the spectre of a possible stalemate, with one side controlling the Chamber of Deputies and the other the Senate.

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