Yet despite their failures, the concept of network computing resonated and validated the Windows terminal, which has the advantages of a network computer and runs Windows applications.
Last year's fight over the arcane concept of network neutrality--the absence of restrictions on the type of content that can move over the privately owned networks that comprise the Internet--was just a preview.
The first is that the solar-as-social-network concept is as real and dependable as, well, the Sun rising in the East.
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By combining both functionalities, Corero has introduced a concept for the network that has already been proven in front of email servers.
And there is the whole concept of the network service center, by which data can be forward-staged and transmitted via the network as opposed to people picking up their hard drives, or, in this case, what used to be thumb drives or servers, and moving them.
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The team is collaborating on a concept that opens the network to developers through services such as messaging, location, payments and advertising accessible via HTML5.
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The Youngstown facility will serve Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia and is designed to function as a proof-of-concept for an eventual network of 15 manufacturing innovation institutes around the country.
If either Oracle or Sun had truly understood what it was they were trying to provide when they ventured out with the network computer concept, we might already be dealing with a whole different desktop experience -- and a new set of vendors to provide it.
And he was passionate about building a completely UGC driven network based on the concept.
He initially considered creating a single-genre cable TV network but recognized that that concept faced significant competition from crime-related programming such as prime-time newsmagazines.
Biotech firms such as Gene Network Sciences are pursuing the concept.
The car's juice showed up as a blip on PJM's network, but the test showed the concept is at least workable.
Furthermore, a company called Friendthem claimed Monday that Facebook had stolen its concept and was threatening the much-larger social network with a lawsuit.
He took this concept and applied it to charitable giving, creating the Omidyar Network in 2004.
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The DockStar network adapter reinvents how people think of anywhere access and the concept of sharing their digital files.
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It is an abiding concept in communications, made famous by theorist Robert Metcalfe, that the value of a network increases with the square of the number of people hooked into it.
When it comes to business opportunities, improving network relations where opportunities may lie is the basis for business trust to develop a thing from concept into a product or service.
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