31.   Corporate networks could shut down.

32.   Corporate network servers decode incoming messages and send them to the recipient in plain text.

33.   Customers can plug into portions of the corporate network to place orders or get support information while the rest of the network remains untouchable.

34.   Deutsche Telekom already has competition in mobile telephone service and corporate networks, Sommer noted.

35.   Ellison said Oracle is applying what it learned in interactive television for use in closed corporate networks and the Internet.

36.   Ellison argued that cheap, simple computers linked to corporate networks or the Internet would be better than expensive desktop machines loaded with costly software.

37.   Facing ever-stiffer competition from Microsoft for the Internet software used on desktops and corporate networks, Netscape decided to conserve its financial resources and shed Navio.

38.   Firewalls are software programs that act as gatekeepers between networks, such as between the Internet and a corporate network.

39.   He demonstrated a hand-held device that will allow corporate users to log on to a corporate network and make a major stock trade on behalf of institutional clients.

40.   Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced new, more powerful server computers used in large corporate networks to manage big repositories of data.