The mobile grabs data off the Web about three times as fast as a regular dial-up phone connection, plenty of speed for e-mail and sending photographs or videoclips.

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If inflation gets out of the box however, the market will go off the dial very fast and by the time crazy old guys are trying to buy gas with their silver dollars the Dow could have lots of zeros on it.

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Assurant Solutions might have followed the herd and focused on the problem of getting customers who dial into its call centers off the phone as fast as possible.

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The Stylus XZ-10, which launched just this week, includes a small arsenal of features that you wouldn't normally find on a pocketable cam, including incredibly fast autofocus, a control ring around the lens, a dedicated mode dial and a very sharp (920k-dot) 3-inch LCD.

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Jim Pickrell got into the Internet service provider business in 1995, back when dial-up connections ruled the day and a 56k modem was considered fast.

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