The company provides a secure gateway for web sites and applications and controls over the content posted to o blogs, wikis, webmail, and social networking sites.

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As a gateway to 3 billion Web pages, Google is a strangely unadorned site: 37 words, four tabs and a blank space where you type in a query of up to ten words.

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Facebook and Twitter helped change the way people discover new things on the Web, rivaling Google as the chief gateway to the Internet.

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It expands the number and types of applications available on mobile networks by opening a direct gateway from the handset to the Web.

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In a patent app made public this month, RIM's lab geeks describe setting up a proxy server right on the phone that would intercept the browser's web requests and bundle, compress, and send them to a gateway on the other end (BIS, we presume) that would know how to deal with the packet.

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Somehow, we knew the right app would emerge from these efforts to serve as a gateway to both our magazine and the extraordinary depth of our Web site.

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Created Google: Internet gateway uses more than 10, 000 networked computers to comb through 3 billion Web pages.

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With multiple antennae and dual band WiFi, the cable gateway increases the coverage area for HD streaming in the home while enabling consumers to download web content from any device in the home significantly faster than it would take on a similar 802.11n device.

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