"Short form communication is defining modern culture, and every phone number-wireless or wired-should be able to support the text medium, " said John Lauer, CEO of Zipwhip.

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With short lines of communication to suppliers, the retailer could keep a better check on quality and was more flexible.

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These routes are changing rapidly reflecting the often short-lived global communication patterns and longer term storage traffic.

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These tactics stifle open and honest communication and generally result in short-term relationships where the person on the other side spends half the time retaliating.

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He said NFC (Near-Field Communication), a kind of short-range wireless connectivity being built into smartphones, is probably not the answer.

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Frivolous communication, including dating, happens increasingly through short text messages, which are cheap.

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However, when such switches are inter-connected the underlying communication protocols can disturb local traffic and more importantly fall-short of scaling this performance to devices connected multiple hops away.

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The service has created a flow of communication amongst people around the world that could never have been imagined only a few short years ago.

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The actors, particularly Pine, read their short lines slowly, like people who live in fear of being misheard, but nothing they do improves communication.

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