And up-and-coming software companies will provide applications that can sit atop the network to manage the information and control for personalization, design, comfort, and efficiency.

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Experts said they believe Flame reports back the information to a central command-and-control network that has constantly changed location.

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In the world of the internet, operators are looking at ways of marrying up the algorithms that find the shortest path through a network and those that control the speed with which information flows.

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The social network generates leads for lenders, but borrowers control what information they disclose and only get notifications when lenders are interested, which takes the sting out of borrowing.

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GE, which supplies the National Grid operator in the U.K., would dearly love to outfit the U.S. network with control software and thousands of sensors to report voltage and other information on a second-by-second basis.

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