The Turkish State Railways started building high-speed rail lines in 2003.

In 2003, high-speed catamaran ferry service was introduced.

A SAE paper from 2003 deals with a high-speed, small-displacement sleeve-valve engine, calculated, but not experimentally shown, to have a higher SFC than the poppet-valve alternative, a year-2009 work compares two different side-opening intake strategies for sleeve-valve engines.

: " In July 2003, Nikon introduced LBCAST-a completely new type of image sensor, different from CCD and CMOS, that is a high-speed, power-efficient, low-noise device to be installed in Nikon's flagship camera, the D2Hs.

To promote the 350Z, Nissan released a short film, " The Run ", with a 2003 model being driven in a high-speed run through city streets of up to.

Following mass rider confusion between this service and the high-speed Acela Express service, the name was returned to Clocker in 2003.

In 2003, Whatis. com defined Intertainment as the e-business initiative that encouraged shopping malls and other public places to provide visitors with free high-speed Internet access.

In 2003, AnaLogic Computers developed a PCI-X visual processor board that included the ACE 4K processor, with a Texas Instrument DSP module and a high-speed frame-grabber.

There were 61 ( 2003 ) internet service providers in Belgium, serving 5. 22 million internet users in 2007.

In 2003, Channel 4 awarded Teletext Ltd a ten year contract to run the channel's ancillary teletext service, named Teletext on 4.

Although service to Japan ceased in summer 2003, it can still be seen on Americable ( distributor for American bases ), Mediatti ( Kadena Air Base ) and Pan Global TV Japan.

The network operation was severely disrupted in late 2002 and early 2003 due to distributed denial of service attacks.

In September and October 2003, ICANN played a crucial role in the conflict over VeriSign's " wild card " DNS service Site Finder.

After an open letter from ICANN issuing an ultimatum to VeriSign, later supported by the IAB, the company voluntarily shut down the service on October 4, 2003.

The January 2003 CIA paper Iraqi Support for Terrorism states that al-Libi told a foreign intelligence service that " Iraq — acting on the request of al-Qa ' ida militant Abu Abdullah, who was Muhammad Atif's emissary — agreed to provide unspecified chemical or biological weapons training for two al-Qa ' ida associates beginning in December 2000.

In 2003, several companies started offering a karaoke service on mobile phones, using a Java MIDlet that runs with a text file containing the words and a MIDI file with the music.

The service started as a test in November 2002 before it was launched in October 2003 and it's one of the most technologically advanced Internet services in the African continent.

The 5. 56x45 mm Mk 16 emerged as the winner of a USSOCOM competition to find a new rifle for Special Operations Forces in 2003 and entered operational service in 2009.

Irrawaddy Flotilla Company was also in service along the Ayeyarwady River in the 20th century, until 2003.

The Czech Republic also used to use the An-30 for this purpose but they apparently retired all of theirs from service in 2003.

For this service, he won the 2003 " Friend of EPIC " award for service to the electronic publishing community.

The usefulness of ping in assisting the diagnosis of Internet connectivity issues was impaired starting in 2003, when a number of Internet service providers began filtering out ICMP Type 8 ( ICMP Echo Request ) messages at their network boundaries.

In September 2003, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet proposed splitting Japan Post into four separate companies: A bank, an insurance company, a postal service company, and a fourth company to handle the post offices as retail storefronts of the other three.

Three quarters of the islands work force is employed in the service sector and Shetland Islands Council alone accounted for 27. 9 % of output in 2003.

The M109 also saw service with the U. S. Army in the Gulf War, as well as in the Iraq War from 2003 to present.

* domestic: offsetting the shortage of fixed line capacity, mobile phone service has been available since 1996 ; by 2003 two companies were providing mobile services at a greater density than some of Albania's Balkan neighbors

Spain ’ s Telefonica was the first operator to launch a hybrid broadcast and broadband TV service in 2003 with its Imagineo DTT / IPTV offering, while Polish satellite operator ' n ' was the first to offer its subscribers a Three-way hybrid ( or Tri-brid ) broadcast and broadband TV service, which launched in 2009

Within an overall framework of poverty reduction, the HIPC Initiative was expected to enable the country to reduce its debt service ratio to 5. 5 % in 2003, and remain at around 5 % throughout the projection period 2000 – 19.

Since 2003, there has been a public bus service through the Dartford Crossing ; the X80 provided by Ensignbus, which links Thurrock with Bluewater.

The growth of the mobile telephone market since the beginning of the economic recovery in 2003 has been impressive, with new customers now preferring a comparatively cheap cellular phone to land line household service.

He also performed the song on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park in 2003, though the game was eventually rained out.

The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

The first version of the robot was first developed back in 2003.

* STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company producing electronics until 2003

In 2003, the An Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages was published by Starostin, Dybo, and Mudrak.

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

Kocharyan's re-election as president in 2003 was followed by widespread allegations of ballot-rigging.

"--- what Jesus ’ immortal spirit did after His death and before His Resurrection is a mystery to all but the Latter-day Saints ---" ( Elder Spencer J. Condie, Liahona ,-Church magazine – July, 2003 ) "--- unto the wicked he did not go, and among the ungodly and the unrepentant-- his voice was not raised.

A software-compatible clone of the Apple I ( Replica 1 ), produced using modern components, was released in 2003 at a price of around $ 200.

A record cold temperature of 450 ± 80 pK in a Bose – Einstein condensate ( BEC ) of sodium atoms was achieved in 2003 by researchers at MIT.

* In February 2003, the Boomerang Nebula was observed to have been releasing gases at a speed of 500, 000 km / h ( over 300, 000 mph ) for the last 1, 500 years.

In 2003 the medal was awarded to Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.

Seeing Calgary and Edmonton are part of a single economic region as the TD study did in 2003 was novel.

The necessity to promote a healthier ecosystem for the people through the rehabilitation and regreening of the environment was stressed in Proclamation No. 643 that amended Proclamation No. 396 of June 2, 2003.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

AIX was a component of the 2003 SCO v. IBM lawsuit, in which the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging IBM contributed SCO's intellectual property to the Linux codebase.

In 2003, author Graham Phillips hypothetically concluded that the Ark was taken to Mount Sinai in the Valley of Edom by the Maccabees.

He was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 27 February 2003.

Also introduced in 2003 was the DB9 coupé, which replaced the ten-year-old DB7.

In 2003, a method was developed for predicting subcellular location of apoptosis proteins

Known as Larzac 2003, the gathering was held over three days in August and attracted an estimated 300. 000 people to a series of concerts and political forums.

The WSF became a periodic meeting: in 2002 and 2003 it was held again in Porto Alegre and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.

Cindy went on to become an accomplished gymnast and in her 30s was three times world champion kitesurfer ( 2002, 2003 & 2004 ).

Additional improvements were made in Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and with the release of the latter the domain controller role was renamed Active Directory Domain Services.