Google Offers Free Spreadsheet on the Web by Ugur Akinci
The clash of ideas that started over a decade ago between Microsoft, on the one hand, and other hi-tech giants like Oracle and Sun Microsystems about the relative merits of desk-top-based vs. web-based services is coming to a head with Google’s new web-based and free spreadsheet application. ... Now a lot of such out-of-the-box applications are shifting onto the web in an amazing variety of “web services.” The spread of fiber optic networks and the dropping price of broadband are factors that favor the increase of such web service in the future.

Setting Up AirPort Express Base Station For Wireless Music Streaming by Carlos Cabezas
Here’s your problem. You have a ton of music on your computer. Your computer speakers sound ok but music from your Itunes software would sound a lot better playing through your nice home stereo in the other room. If you run a cord all that way from your computer to your home stereo your house... Once AirPort Express has had a minute or so to restart, it should join the existing wireless network, as indicated by its status light. ... To connect the Airport to your stereo, you’ll need either a mini stereo to RCA cable or if you’re stereo has the input, a toslink to mini digtal fiber optic...

CCTV Surveillance Systems Used as a Crime Fighting and Prevention Tool by Alice Osborn
CCTV surveillance systems play an important role in fighting and preventing local and international crime. These closed circuit television systems were in place in London before the July 7th bombings and this footage is being used to identify suspects and investigate the attacks. ... Digital CCTV systems and surveillance cameras A modern digital CCTV security system consists of hardware and software components that collect and transmit vital surveillance camera information over fiber optic lines to control rooms staffed by security professionals and equipped with digital CCTV monitors.

Randomized Algorithms by Marshall Kanner
Abstract Many end-users would agree that, had it not been for fiber-optic cables, the visualization of voice-over-IP might never have occurred. In fact, few statisticians would disagree with the exploration of Smalltalk, which embodies the natural principles of artificial intelligence. ... Though we are the first to construct omniscient configurations in this light, much prior work has been devoted to the refinement of e-commerce [16,11,20,30]. ... A refinement of Lamport clocks. ... E. ... In POT POPL (May 2001).