Look for somebody pushing a terabyte per second down a single wire by mid-decade.

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This device patented by a German scientist, Ferdinand Braun, in 1899 was made of a single metal wire, fondly called a cat's whisker, touching against a semiconductor crystal.

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Mr. Taylor pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud, which carries up to 20 years in prison.

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The single count of wire fraud conspiracy carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence.

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Approaching from Seoul, only 50 kilometers from the armistice line, a single barbed-wire fence gives way to thicket of guard towers and other fortifications.

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In effect, Skype has created a worldwide voice network, capable of reaching as many consumers as the biggest phone companies, but it has done it without laying down a single fiber-optic wire.

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Think of it as a sheet of chicken-wire that is just a single atom thick, but also lightweight, strong, airtight, stretchable, transparent and an excellent conductor of both electricity and light.

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The elder, potbellied, carried an ancient single-barrelled shotgun, the butt mended crudely with wire.

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While critics complain that America has no human intelligence sources inside the terror groups the single greatest collection of HUMINT sources are confined behind the wire at Camp Delta and surrounding camps.

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Since winter is my enemy, I've installed a thinner wire in a small barn a "barnette" that I built single-handedly using 18th-century tools and timber-framing traditions.

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