Such networks provide the user little control when it comes to preventing third parties from accessing their mobile devices, client data, and even law firm networks.
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Another is Fireeye, a security firm that hardens networks against malware attacks.
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In 2004 Marvell licensed chip designs and software to a firm called Alliant Networks that was designing a chip to handle both cellular and Wi-Fi signals.
We turned to Starcount, a Singapore-based firm that tracks social networks, to help compile a list of the dead celebrities with the biggest social networking footprints.
John Kelly, founder of Morningside Analytics, a firm that analyses social networks, examined links between blogs and twitter accounts in India and Pakistan and discovered two hubs that link the two countries.
Mr Perret said France Telecom had partnered with Baidu because the search firm had helped mobile networks in in its home market of China cope with a similar switch from basic mobiles to low-end smartphones.
IdeaPlane is a Soho-based firm that sets up social networks within businesses to foster collaboration.
Arbor Networks, a firm which specialises in protecting against DDoS attacks, also said it was the biggest such attack they had seen.
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For all its high-tech local networks, the firm faces a fierce battle against the entrenched Baby Bells, which are preparing for a price war.
Lodish, who served on the board of Quidsi before its acquisition by Amazon, says the firm developed highly efficient distribution networks revolving around state-of-the art information technology.
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The new ICQ owner is Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a high-flying Russian Internet firm with investments in social networks (Facebook and Zynga, which makes games for SNS portals) and webmail.
Kozel, an 18-year veteran of Cisco Systems, can choose from dozens of thriving peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, and they now churn out almost 40% of all Net traffic, says Ellacoya Networks, a firm in Merrimack, N.
But since EE's 4G announcement, rival networks have sought to undermine the firm's offering.
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By tapping into Web-based business tools, Sam Rogoway earlier this month launched Near Networks, a nationwide video production firm, with only four employees.
Carrier1, another European telecom firm, has sought bankruptcy protection, partly because networks providing it with capacity lost faith in its ability to pay.
Security and confidentiality matter all the more when networks spread beyond the borders of a firm, as more and more of them do, to include suppliers or customers.
On a typical long-haul flight, says Mike Fitzgerald of Altobridge, a firm that makes technology to bridge satellite and cellular networks, 20 mobile phones are left switched on.
The firm is investing in mobile gaming and games for social-networks, he said.
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BT, a British firms that buys Huawei equipment, says that having the firm as a supplier has not jeopardised the security of its networks.
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Microsoft already serves up ads for popular networks such as Facebook and bought a stake in the firm last year.
According to a report published last month by Forrester, a research firm, only 4% of American adults have ever used such networks and far fewer do so more than once a week.
Another example of exporting prowess is TDSi, a small Dorset firm that designs access-control systems for offices, airports and rail networks.
Direct Edge, a New Jersey firm, said Friday its application for exchange status for its electronic communications networks was approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Gartner, another research firm, said this week that failing to communicate with customers on social networks could be as damaging to companies as not answering phone calls or e-mails.
Marc Pierce, the firm's president, says nearly all the products have included limited provider networks.
ViaSat ( VSAT - news - people ), which makes and services satellite equipment and data networks, hiring never stopped during the recession, in part because the firm has a big, steady client, the U.S. military, which is using ViaSat equipment in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Anderson's firm and Matrix Partners have invested in 28 deals together, including Cascade Communications and Sycamore Networks (nasdaq: SCMR - news - people ).
The search firm says that an experimental software project designed to gather data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks was accidentally rolled out along with its Street View initiative, which uses cameras mounted on cars to film streets and buildings.
Yet rather than properly liberalising the market, the government may allow a duopoly after 2002, with the other licence going to the merged internal telephone networks of other state-owned firms, such as Eskom, the state electricity firm, and Transnet, the state transport group.
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Data from online media measurement firm Big Champagne indicate that the most swapped shows on traditional peer-to-peer and BitTorrent networks tend to also be among the highest rated when aired on TV.
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