Emily is the creation of Kana Communications of Manchester, N.H., a company that focuses on ways to link customers and companies on the Web.
In John Tierney's mock letter to Al Gore, "The Aria of Prince Algorino" (Findings, June 17), he writes, "I agree it would 'round out the résumé' of Prince Algorino in the opening scene if he were to sing about his creation of a communications network.
Specialising in the creation of multimedia communications for the emerging internet space, it picked up an enviable array of corporate clients including NewsCorp, Apple, IBM and Mattel.
That's why the government had to fund the creation of the communications system that became the Internet: Private companies couldn't see how a nationwide data network would benefit their bottom line -- in fact, the nation's communications monopoly, AT&T, was so convinced that data transmissions would wreck its network that it tried to block them.
With tensions running high during the Reagan administration, senior K.G.B. officials approached their C.I.A. counterparts and proposed the creation of a special communications line between the spy agencies.
"The change in roaming charges may flatten the EU for travellers, the creation of a single communications market is not yet in place.
As the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania draws near, one of the main recommendations of the 9/11 Commission remains unfulfilled: the creation of a common communications system that lets emergency responders talk to one another across jurisdictions.
The research demonstrated that such unintended USB channels can allow the creation of two way communications with a targeted network endpoint, thus violating the integrity and confidentiality of the data residing on the network endpoint.
The creation of a line of communications from India to China would be the largest engineer undertaking of the war.
