Those attacks, the first wave in a series that has since become known as Titan Rain, piped stolen information to mainland China via servers in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea.
This means, says Denise Lahey of OracleMobile, that the software that pipes information to the handset needs to be smarter: to figure out which e-mails are important, perhaps given the time of day, the user's calendar, and even the user's location.
Both of the services' main pages offer a stream of information, including information piped in from other services.
The new NBN system will resemble the Roman aqueduct system, with desired information piped into cities and towns via the flow of gravity, and unwanted information diverted into natural river systems.
Many of these so-called live tiles constantly flicker with new information piped in from the Internet, like news headlines and Facebook photos.
In the best of worlds, roamers would be able to get rate information piped through to their telephones from various providers, before choosing which service to use.
It doesn't matter how good the people are we put into the front door of these agencies, because 20 years of awful incentives and stove-piped information flows take their toll.
This info will be used for real-time information streams piped to fans watching at home on TV, as well as for teams themselves, who can make use of the data to change up game strategy on the field and evolve their game over time.
This information is piped in turn to navigation devices and smart-phones, in order to adjust a delivery route in response to an accident, for example.
With Apple Maps, you'll have to check your iPhone display as you go; with Nokia HERE, that information is piped right into your ears.
In Brave New World, select children living in London in the year 2540 are educated via hypnopædia, a process by which information is piped into their ears while they sleep.
