It appears that the attackers targeted the SSL certificates of several specific net communication services such as Gmail and Skype as well as other popular sites such as Microsoft Live, Yahoo and the Firefox browser.

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Carnival has transitioned much of what used to be paper-only communication over to the Net.

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The big thing will be device-to-device communication over the 'Net.

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The second is that merely adding a website on to an existing business is not enough: the whole business needs to be redesigned around the cost-saving, communication-easing properties of the net.

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The Net turned out to be better for communication and commerce.

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According to Microsoft the messages were sent via net addresses owned by the Kuwait Ministries of Communication and Finance, several Korean schools, the Seoul Municipal Boramae Hospital, and the Virginia Community College System.

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Net strategy, which aims to automate and ease communication and commerce on the Web.

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Somewhere on there is a timer of the minutes you spent yammering away on the phone -- not texting, not surfing the net, but actually engaging in voice-to-voice communication.

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Box.net started as a storage tool for employee-to-employee communication but was not focused on sending files across companies, Koon says.

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Another work, Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing your World, speaks of the new realities of the tools, methods of communication and learning of a new generation.

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