In addition, industrial social networks can be created that include people, systems, and things.

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But experts say a successful, large-scale attack on U.S. computer systems could hobble electric-power grids, transportation networks and industrial-supply chains.

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Soon after Mr. Hassan's death, Sunni networks supporting the Syrian rebels turned large industrial warehouses in Tripoli into arms depots.

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Short sellers were doing well, especially those touting their insights on the financial networks, dousing China banks like the behemoth Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ( HKG: 1398) with nothing but bad news of their eminent demise.

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We've seen an explosion in what I call the athletic industrial complex with the growth of 24-hour sports networks, with the growth of 24-hour radio channels, and particularly with the growth of the spread of publicly funded stadiums in cities around the country.

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Floyd founded Efficient in 1993 with the idea of using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), an industrial-strength packet technology, to route data around local area networks.

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It proposed a worldwide distribution system called GIBN -- Global Interoperability for Broadband Networks -- at a Paris meeting of telecommunications officials from the world's seven richest industrial countries.

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