Akamai Technologies, which provides services to speed data over the Internet, said yesterday that it would buy Speedera Networks for $130 million in stock to help it compete against larger rivals.
Tide promises faster account activation and a number of other services to speed up a businesses banking and accounting activities.
That's forcing the former Baby Bells, which were slow to roll out their own high-speed Internet services, to speed introduction of digital subscriber line, or DSL, service.
In addition, Cotendo this morning announced the launch of its Mobile Acceleration Suite, which it says will extend its web acceleration services to speed up delivery of mobile websites and applications.
For example, CHWs could direct guardians to health-care facilities with blood products for those children likely to require transfusion, or to clinics with ambulance services to speed referral to a referral hospital if necessary.
The Navy will be allowed to produce its next-generation aircraft carrier, Mr. Thompson said, but only because the service agreed to speed the application of new technologies for the vessel.
In the jargon, it is called "self-direction" or "co-production", and it starts to bring public services up to speed with other aspects of 21st-century life.
