Although he was successful in getting the Egyptian carriers to cooperate, some Egyptians still managed to get online by making international data calls from old-fashioned telephone modem lines.

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The doctors go online and get the patient's data (medical history, drug allergies, etc), which happens to be stored on the computer of a clinic on the other side of the world.

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Another option takes us back to the Web -- you can often get an online backup plan that will remove your valuable data not only from that main hard drive, but also from your computer's immediate vicinity.

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The letter also said that Defense Distributed likely didn't get the proper approval to release the technical data it had posted online.

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The OTC lists a couple of thousand companies which are of interest to institutional investor, but since they are not required to file anything with the SEC, it is difficult to get data about them, said David A. Frankel, chief marketing officer of EDGAR Online.

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Entrepreneurs and companies will take raw info, combine it with other raw data to produce useful information, and get it to farmers on cell phones, in publications and online.

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