And yesterday, in an attempt to claw back ground from Verizon Communication's joint wireless venture with Vodafone and Sprint Nextel, Cingular yesterday launched BroadbandConnect--its own high-speed wireless Internet service--in 16 markets.
Satellite-based data links will improve communication between pilots and ground controllers, cutting out about 40% of voice communication over the radio.
The Americans are trying to use e-mail for routine ground-to-air communication, freeing voice channels and lightening the load for controllers.
Communication from the ground up likely will be examined during Clinton's testimony.
Former astronaut Jerry Linenger, who was aboard the Russian space station Mir during a dangerous fire in 1997, told the Associated Press news agency that a loss of communication with the ground "is not a terrible thing" as long as there is no crisis going on.
BBC: Nasa back in contact with the International Space Station
But, according to researchers who have been meeting in Chicago at a symposium of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, this anthropocentric approach has meant that interactions via vibrations of the ground (a means of communication known as seismic signalling) have been almost entirely overlooked.
Given our dependence on the communication systems of our planet, both satellite- and ground-based, this is not simply a theoretical worry.
Friday's rocket was carrying a Meridian-5 satellite, designed to provide communication between ships, planes and coastal stations on the ground, according to RIA Novosti.
We should deepen mutual understanding through communication, increase mutual trust through dialogue, and expand common ground through exchanges.
Yammer is also a pure-play social platform built from ground up to leverage the converging trends of social, mobile, cloud, and real-time communication.
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