So now when natural disasters strike a tsunami strikes a Pacific coast, or an earthquake flattens a city the emergency responders and the media can utilize up-to-the minute images to assess the scale and scope of the damage, target help to victims, and communicate news and information.

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He has never lived for more than a few weeks at a time in North Korea, and when Jong opted for North Korean citizenship, news stations reported that he could not speak Korean well enough to communicate with his teammates.

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PlayStation Network members can also download free applications, such as PlayStation Home, a ground-breaking 3D social gaming community available on PS3 that allows users to interact, communicate and share gaming experiences, as well as Life with PlayStation, which offers users various news and information on a TV monitor in the living room by connecting the PS3 to the network.

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Port 445 is used by Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows to share files, printers, serial ports and to communicate between computers.

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Accounts of the deadly attacks last fall in Mumbai, India, the May 2008 earthquake in China and last week's plane crash show what used to be just a virtual gathering place to communicate pet peeves or plans for the weekend has evolved into a go-to spot for eyewitness news -- sometimes even before mainstream media has had time to crack the story.

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