Interestingly, when we asked a DoT staffer for clarification, he reminded us that the agency hasn't issued a press release and said he wasn't sure where Wired and other outlets were getting their information.

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But there are other ways of getting information.

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In short, players are teaching one another and learning from each other, and getting only the information they need to keep going.

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They barricaded the door and remained there for nearly 48 hours, getting information about the whereabouts of other Synchronicity members by cell phone and their room phone, he said.

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This includes in-vehicle communications, vehicle to vehicle communications (think of cars exchanging information wirelessly between each other), vehicle to infrastructure communications (think of your car getting road related information from the stop light as you drive by it) and vehicle to Internet.

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Other bright ideas include getting local firms to pool information on new markets and to work more actively on fixing problems such as shortages of skilled labour.

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On the other hand, information wants to be free , because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

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So any of our clients, if they are sending to a local pharmacy, or to a specialist or laboratory, they can "friend" that laboratory or specialist or pharmacy onto athenaNet, and without getting onto any of our other services, that entity can start paying for and receiving online clinical information from our cloud-based service without having to be on it.

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That's a hard act to follow, but it looks like he'll be getting a shot as the new CEO of Ambient Devices, makers of the Orb and other friendly glowing information appliances.

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