The Lexington Institute's Loren Thompson says those mishaps usually result from a simple break in the line-of-sight connection between a plane and the satellite that controls it--often when one of the aircraft's own wings maneuvers into the path of the signal.

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's now-closed News of the World tabloid in connection with what authorities described as a new line of inquiry in their probe of phone-hacking at the paper.

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In a statement issued Wednesday, the FBI said it has no indication of a connection between the tainted letters and Monday's bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

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Your correspondent is admittedly near the end of the road for a digital subscriber line (DSL) connection.

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The early-adopter set has been playing with home networking for a few years, but now the technology is spreading to mainstream consumers, who want to split the fast Internet connection of a cable modem or digital subscriber line (DSL) among several PCs, and also share computer files and peripherals such as printers and scanners.

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It found that 2003 was a good year for consumers, with competition driving down the cost of a high-speed net connection over the phone line via ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).

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"That's no different from me buying a 20 Megabyte per second Fios connection to my home network instead of a 1.5 Mbps DSL line, " Isenberg says.

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Bottom line, the emotional connection with a personal brand is so much deeper and so much stronger than that of any product or service, because it connects on a human level.

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