In the transmission segment, it offers pre-designed modular protection, control and automation solutions for transmission system assets such as transmission lines, bus-bars, large transformers and capacitor banks.

FORBES: GE Targets High-Growth Power Equipment Market with Packaged Solutions

The entire BRABUS multimedia system is controlled from the passenger seat or the rear compartment by two iPads that also control the car's standard COMAND system with all functions such as radio, navigation system and telephone.

ENGADGET: Brabus iBusiness luxury sedan puts an iPad at every seat, a Magic Mouse at every hide-covered armrest

However, it has limited control over the taxation system, the overall spending envelope and key spending decisions such as welfare.

BBC: Scotland politics

Administrators can use "nerd knobs" in the product's management system to control what may be searched, and shape results around characteristics such as when or literally where, geographically speaking, a document was created.

FORBES: Google Digs Deeper Into Business

Internet control currently lies largely with US-based groups such as Icann, which regulates the web address system.

BBC: European Parliament warns against UN internet control

The Spanish acquisitions, combined with the presence of America's Citibank, mean that around half the banking system will now be under foreign control, putting Mexico on a par with such countries as Chile and Argentina.

ECONOMIST: Mexican banks

Another kind of system, known as DCS, or Distributed Control Systems, is often used in isolated areas such as a chemical plant.

FORBES: The Next Threat

Lady Manningham-Buller said the legal system had coped for many years with complex terrorist cases without recourse to "special arrangements" such as control orders, which she described as "terrorist ASBOs".

BBC: Queen's speech debate: Home affairs