The significance of the new LIVE 5000 Wi-Fi speaker lies within its versatility and its multi-room, multi-platform operation.

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Early users of the close-range wireless technology already know it's useful for things like performing a HotSync operation from across a room--provided you have that PC outfitted for Bluetooth already--or printing documents from the handheld to a Bluetooth-ready printer.

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That little gear-and-widget ad operation in the back room of the maintenance manual shop has grown to be blended with others into the largest independent advertising agency in the world, focused on serving business-to-business clients.

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The next day he began a clean-up operation at his home, washing the dining room carpet and scrubbing every inch of the house with what one police officer recalled was a "lemony" cleaning fluid.

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He says that even during a 20-minute operation there will be three people in the operating room, and one of them is an RN entering data that could be used in a lawsuit.

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The backlog prompted the closure of the M20 between the Maidstone and Ashford turn-offs to allow for the complex operation to shift non-freight traffic off the motorway and onto the A20 to make room for the hundreds of lorries waiting to board ferries and trains for France.

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The president and top aides were gathered in the White House situation room to monitor the progress of the operation Sunday afternoon when the message "Geronimo EKIA" -- indicating that bin Laden had been killed in action -- was called in from Pakistan.

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He provided live coverage of the first operation performed during the war, and performed life-saving brain surgery five times himself in a desert operating room.

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