Their advent is driving a profound debate over the definition of privacy in an era when most people now carry information-transmitting devices with them all the time.
The photoswitches can be used to control the activity of proteins in the eye that are essential to transmitting information from the outside world to the brain in normal vision.
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As the Web moguls see it, the Internet has evolved from a method of transmitting information to its own computing platform, as novel as the personal computer was in the late 1970s, or client-server networks were in the '80s.
And they should avoid transmitting sensitive information, such as work documents or credit card details, over public Wi-Fi spots.
The T-shirt is capable of recording bullet wounds and blast injuries and transmitting the information to military medics monitoring troops from a safe distance.
"Ensuring that your checkout process and, more important, the credit card form are well-secured will guarantee your customers feel safe when transmitting their information, " says Pat Kaeowichien, director of information technology for Magnetic, a Tampa-based Web-development firm.
The New Jersey native is charged with one count each of conspiracy to transmit information to damage a protected computer, as well transmitting and attempting to transmit that information.
He is charged with one count each of conspiracy to transmit information to damage a protected computer, as well as transmitting and attempting to transmit that information.
Keys is charged with one count each of conspiracy to transmit information to damage a protected computer, as well as transmitting and attempting to transmit that information.
Law and economics teaches that insider trading causes no important harm and, by transmitting the inside information to the market, brings an important benefit: more accurate share prices.
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With the plummeting cost of storing and transmitting data, sharing information has become much more practical.
The chief of Kynikos Associates warned that the video game retailer is in a business being destroyed by digital distribution as the cost of transmitting and storing bits of information heads toward zero.
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With some further tinkering the device could become a platform for transMITting a variety of health information from inside the body--perhaps to be paired with iPhone-like apps for calculating and administering drugs as needed.
Last month the U.K.'s National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre issued a major call for vigilance, noting 17 targeted Trojan horse attacks sent by e-mail that "appear to be covert gathering and transmitting of commercially or economically valuable information" from British companies and the government.
The Supreme Court decided in 1853 that Morse could keep the patent on his innovative method for transmitting telegraph signals over long distances, but not the fundamental scientific principle that electricity can transmit information.
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