The idea is to come up with ways to put networking and communication technologies, including the use of Internet, into running a battery system.

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Bajaj Finance, an Indian consumer-lending firm that has been using Chatter, Salesforce.com's social-networking system, for over a year, says it has led to much smoother communication between its sales staff and underwriters.

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