Abstract: The invnetion provides secure access to applications such as intranet access and corporate e-mail systems from mobile terminals such as cellular telephones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) using Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) by using an identifier that is unique to the mobile terminal (either the handset itself or the Subscriber Information Module (SIM) card that is used in the handset). This is passed to the authentication systems used by the service provider after the conventional verification of username and password details. If the identifier matches the record held in the authentication database then the service provider returns a number of user-specific options, such as corporate e-mail, intranet access, inventory or ordering systems.

Abstract: A seal assembly comprising a main O-ring seal element for engaging in a fluid tight manner opposed surfaces of two objects to be sealingly connected together and a barrier element positioned to protect all or a substantial portion of the surface of the main O-ring seal element against contact by the fluid when passing through the seal assembly from one object to the other object.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of use for a spotting-agent composition for use in laundering garments is provided which consists essentially of a solution of (1) about 10 weight percent or more of a nonionic surfactant produced by reacting a mixture of fatty alcohols containing 10 to 18 carbon atoms (with the proviso that the proportion of such alcohols which is attributable to alcohols containing 17 or more carbon atoms is limited to about 20 percent by weight) with mixed lower-alkylene oxides (ethylene oxide and propylene oxide) to such an extent as to have the mixed oxides comprise about 57 to 68 weight percent of the total fatty alcohol plus alkylene oxides used, with the proportion of ethylene oxide in the mixed oxides used being about 50 to 70%, in (2) an isoparaffinic solvent made of a mixture of isoparaffins containing about 11 to 14 carbon atoms.