One could argue that football, with its jewel-box 16-game season, is already a sport less about the action than the spaces in between.

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But the Palm Springs event really finds its groove in the spaces between the main lectures.

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In a little known battle in the UK, both Google and Microsoft are competing for white spaces, gaps in the radio spectrum between TV, radio and mobile.

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That shift in the spaces between tubes can be detected by an electrical meter.

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Fill in the spaces between the ads.

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While most of the arrangements are stripped down, with an emphasis on the silent spaces between the notes, "The Gift of Song in the Lion's Den" has a more energetic feel.

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At this point all the snazzy new websites and re-focused marketing efforts in the world aren't going to get Google, Microsoft, and the other members of the White Spaces Coalition anywhere if they don't actually demonstrate the broadband-in-between-TV-signals tech in action -- and it looks like that's proving to be harder than expected.

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The technology uses gaps in radio spectrum, called 'white spaces', which exist in between frequency bands.

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