Traditionally, much of the intelligence for controlling data communications is spread around a network, managed by proprietary software that comes with each vendor's gear.

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Network systems and data communications specialist, you need a bachelor's degree for that.

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Biomedical engineer, network systems and data communications analyst, home health aide: those are the top three career fields expected to hire workers between now and 2018, says a story tucked into The New York Times Education Life supplement last Sunday.

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But network systems, data communications.

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But the London force is also reportedly using software that masquerades as a mobile phone network, allowing it to intercept communications and gather data about users in a targeted area, such as a demonstration.

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We understand from Epitiro (but have not made any enquiries or carried out any research in relation to this) that the App uses very little bandwidth as it reports on data already present on the phone through its normal background communications within the network.

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Qualcomm chief Paul Jacobs talked about addressing the problem by adding a series of ultra-small communications cells, and storage methods, to ease the data load from the overall network.

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Among the drivers are identity and security, data analysis and personalization, network optimization, contextual services, next generation communications services and monetization.

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During a stint at SunGuard Data Systems in the late 1990s he helped develop Brut, an early electronic communications network, or ECN, that allowed traders to bypass established exchanges and match their buy and sell orders online.

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