Transferring files onto a home PC, for instance, can be a recipe for disaster.

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At the same time, he was refining a method of transferring files from one machine to another across a network.

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Additionally, the inconvenience of transferring media files to Amazon Cloud Player or Google Play further dissuades iOS consumers from switching.

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Generali says its employees have been transferring Holocaust-era policies on to computer files and are now close to completing their database.

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"With most flash drives, transferring a large number of photos and mp3 files can take a few minutes, " said Luc Pierart, Business Unit Manager, Personal Storage, LaCie.

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While we don't do lab tests, in our real office tests of transferring Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Word and Excel files, the machines equipped with Airport Extreme cards clearly outpaced those using the older ones.

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