Twenty-four-hour news, e-commerce, mobile phones, Global Positioning Systems, all these are making the world smaller and faster.

24小时新闻、电子商务、移动电话、全球定位系统，所有这些都正在使世界变得更小、发展得更快。

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Vodafone owns a small stake in China Mobile and would like a single global 4g standard to make roaming easier and increase economies of scale.

沃达丰持有中国移动小部分股份，也希望全球有一个通用4g标准以实现轻松漫游，并促进规模经济。

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"Once you take this out of Japan, it's just a piece of metal." Japanese companies only make 5 percent of global mobile phone sales, and all of those sales are domestic.

日本手机厂商的销量只占全球手机销量的5%，而且还是内销。

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Iger says social, global and mobile, plus cloud storage, makes for an exciting, interesting and challenging time for the media business.

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In Dublin in late October CEO Reed Hastings set out a long-term vision for Netflix that embraced global distribution and mobile devices.

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For Google, this would be a major blow as it seeks to have a global mobile presence and monetize its mobile services.

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