IWay

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information superhighway

(1) A generic name for the Internet.

(2) A proposed high-speed communications system that was touted by the Clinton/Gore administration to enhance education in America in the 21st century. Its purpose was to help all citizens regardless of their income level. The Internet was originally cited as a model for this superhighway; however, with the explosion of the Web, the Internet became the information superhighway whether it was ready for it or not.

A Superhighway Below the Highway

Blacktop above, glass below. The backbone of the Internet is build on optical fibers, which have painstakingly been laid across the country and around the world starting in the 1970s and widely deployed in the 1990s. (Image courtesy of Metromedia Fiber Network.)

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Edsel had two best men in Matthew Iway and Marie Edwards Escario.

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Telkom SA is working to integrate Africa Online and AFSAT under the iWay brand in an effort to create economies of scale and streamline operations, the company said.

Telkom SA expands iWay data services brand

For example, its IWAY code of conduct contains several different performance levels, the first of which details the minimum requirements a supplier must meet to work with IKEA.

Ikea's road to corporate social responsibility

Augustine and worked our Iway north, fishing the creeks off the ICW.

Bonus time

iWay Software, a developer of enterprise integration solutions, announced on 24 March an agreement with Vignette Corporation (Nasdaq:VIGN) that will allow Vignette to integrate ERP/CRM application data into its Web Experience Platform.

iWay Software to collaborate with Vignette

Beyond its efforts to minimize waste in the manufacturing process, as both an IKEA subsidiary and supplier, Swedwood not only follows IKEA's environmental and social guidelines, termed IWAY (IKEA Way of Purchasing Home Furniture Products), but uses it in relationships with its own suppliers.

Inside Swedwood: IKEA's first U.S. plant: IKEA manufacturing subsidiary Swedwood opens the doors to its 930,000-square-foot facility in Danville, VA, part of a four-phase, $281 million plan

argue that IKEA, for example, is transferring its standards for quality, efficiency, and socially responsible behavior "globally to the mutual benefit of all the system's stakeholder groups" by implementing its "IKEA Way on Purchasing Home Furnishing Products (IWAY)" throughout its global supply chain.

The new role for assurance services in global commerce

-- Kehe Food Distributors has selected iWay Software's integration solutions to automate internal business processes and facilitate efficient business-to-business transactions with the wholesaler's external vendors and customers, via a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, which eliminates the need to write or maintain custom integration code.

Kehe Food Distributors Goes with iWay Supply Chain Software

Noo aa divvin knaa whaat ti mek i aal thor taak aboot deein iway wi caalin folks pet n hinny.

Please keep on calling me hinny

Press-sense customized its iWay Prime Web-to-print software for Xerox and ensured the software integrates into the entire FreeFlow Collection.

Xerox announces enhancements to FreeFlow Digital Workflow Collection