The reason Boeing taps Ex-Im financing so frequently is because it makes the most expensive capital goods that the U.S. exports, and those goods are in demand in many places where private-sector lenders are reluctant to extend credit.

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Since the Cingular network is so fast (and the Causerie IM client can be set to check for messages as frequently as you like) he's able to receive messages from work in near-real time.

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So could toys like Mattel's IM-Me mobile messaging device, which increasingly ships with wi-fi on board.

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The gold medals that Im Dong-Hyun has won so far are team golds, which South Korea claimed at Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008.

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The interoperability issue among video carriers is somewhat similar in proprietary Instant Messaging systems, which also await unification among their providers so that someone on, say, Yahoo IM can talk to a Google Chat consumer.

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But I do think that places where email can be annoying - like lots of tiny little notification emails and so forth - may well end up migrating to IM, where they belong.

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So my message to Congress is thank you and congratulations on authorizing Ex-Im Bank to continue on its extraordinary mission.

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Digital Lifestyles tried one out, and came away impressed, both by the Siemens S440 handset they tried out (which, of course, still works without Skype), and by the M34, which, in addition to Skype, allows you to IM with your phone, and even control your PC to some extent (so that, for example, you can use your phone as an iTunes remote).

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So could toys like Mattel (nyse: MAT - news - people )'s IM-Me mobile messaging device, which increasingly ships with wi-fi on board.

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