AMIS is still used in larger corporate environments to transfer voice mail messages between geographically separate offices, however, e-mail and unified messaging (which allows forwarding of voice mail messages via email) is rapidly supplanting this purpose.

But water filters small enough to slip into a backpack or an overnight bag are rapidly supplanting iodine as the choice of travelers concerned about possible contaminants in water, either in the wild or in less-developed countries.

Hong Kong, which was ceded to Britain in 1842 after the Opium War, rapidly supplanted Macao as the preferred trading hub in the region.

But as the town increases, brick and stone houses rapidly supplant these less substantial edifices, which seldom remain good for more than thirty or forty years.

Although the drug-coated devices cost more than $2,000 on average, compared with $800 or so for bare metal devices, they rapidly supplanted the older designs in the United States and now account for 85 percent to 90 percent of the market.

But the local population has been hard hit by pollution, much of it from factories and ocean-going ships, so Manila clams, seeded in the lagoon some years ago, are rapidly supplanting them.

By 1881 he had built the first fully automatic milling plant at Chester and from that time, mechanically powered roller-milling rapidly supplanted stone-milling in the mass production of flour.

About the 2nd century AD, there arose the Axumites rapidly supplanting the Damot.

As a technological revolution, the punch-card voting system was a putsch, rapidly supplanting rival technologies in the late 1960's, shortly after it was introduced.

No awards ceremony would be complete without Al Gore, who is rapidly supplanting Dame Judi Dench as the ceremony perennial.