The device will contact the Spectrum Bridge database to identify channels that are available for operation at its location and can provide high-speed Internet connectivity.

ENGADGET: FCC approves first white space device and database for Wilmington, NC

Companies like FluidOps make replicating all levels of a virtual landscape--the data, database, application, and operating system--a one-click operation.

FORBES: JargonSpy

This may mean that you use low-cost Web-based services to provide order taking, accounting, e-mail services, database management, or a hundred other functions that are central to the operation of your business.

FORBES: Extreme Outsourcing

In contrast to Ore, the US Operation Avalanche resulted in around 100 arrests following 144 searches from a database of 35, 000 transactions.

BBC: Paedophile net: Did Operation Ore change British society?

Thousands of ex-offenders have been targeted by Operation Nutmeg, which aims to add the DNA of 12, 000 people to the police national database.

BBC: A DNA autoradiogram

Dr McNamara, for example, plans to analyse a database called the Ethnographic Atlas to see if he can find any correlations between the amount of cultural co-operation found in a society and the intensity of its religious rituals.

ECONOMIST: The science of religion

Police forces in England and Wales have begun a large-scale operation to collect DNA samples from about 12, 000 serious offenders who are not on the national DNA database.

BBC: A DNA autoradiogram