My car, outfitted with a GPS position finder and an off-the-shelf wireless local area network (WLAN) communication system, was tipped off by another car carrying the same gear.

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Akamai engineers in Cambridge, Mass. are constantly preparing newer, faster servers the size of pizza boxes--cheap off-the-shelf machines embedded with special Akamai DNA--and deploying them to the farthest edges of the network.

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