Ember, the company that Poor cofounded in 2001, gives mundane devices the power to communicate wirelessly.

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With Zigbee in place, Ember began selling chips to others and building nodes that could send and receive data.

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Finally, it will dump a large proportion of its gaseous mass to leave a hot, compact and faintly glowing ember.

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Cold-storage-device maker Sensitech attached Ember nodes to temperature gauges on refrigerated trucks.

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Intel Corp. has funded a company called Crossbow Technology, and companies such as Millennial Net and Ember also are pursuing wireless sensor networks.

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At night, an ember from the fire is brought into the chief's hut, then used to kindle the flames again in the morning.

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The Nov.ember 15 special encourages viewers to contribute to the rebuilding of Seaside Heights, the main location of MTV's hit "Jersey Shore, " which will soon air its final episode.

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For companies like Ember and Texas Instruments to simply ignore the repeated warnings of respected security researchers like Travis, Josh, Nick D. and others is, in my opinion, disgraceful behavior.

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To some, the purchase was a head-scratching gambit: The sport of horse racing is perceived to be dying a slow, inexorable death, an ember of the 20th-century sporting scene, like boxing.

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Ember has 50 employees and 120 customers.

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