The latest generation offers e-mail and basic Web browsing so that busy users can stay in touch with the office, check flight times and get the latest stock quotes wherever they are.

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Also thanks to CemexNet, Zambrano can use a laptop or the IBM 770 ThinkPad computer in his office in the ten-story concrete-and-glass Cemex headquarters in downtown Monterrey to check on the daily production, kiln conditions, crushing, bagging and shipping output at any Cemex operation around the world.

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