It seemed a smart move, giving Solo access to Sweetheart's broad, in-house network of trucks, distribution centers and warehouses serving mostly food-service customers.
These days, it costs just about the same to buy cloud time on, say, Amazon as it does to purchase your own in-house computing network.
Using software you install on your PC, you can take complete control over all the phones in the house and turn your internal phone network into a system like a private branch exchange (PBX) not unlike what you might find at the office.
You didn't hear it from us, but they're eventually going to add the ability to network this with other stuff in the house (there's an Ethernet port in back) and will probably add some sort of hard drive for digital video recording.
"I think it's a very, very well-done news network, " said media expert and former White House correspondent Porter Bibb of Mediatech Capital Partners in New York, where he listens to a related network, Al Jazeera English, now available in a tiny fraction of U.S. markets.
But the act's remit extends only to the public telephone network, which was defined in a recent House of Lords judgment as ending at the wall socket.
Keeping the ratings-magnet in house and happy is important for the Comcast-owned network, particularly at a time when its own future is in flux care of the looming NBC Universal acquisition.
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Now I have two servers in my house and everyone who needs to connects through our Virtual Private Network.
The cost of wiring up every house where there is no network at all is so high in comparison to setting up a wireless network that it will just never happen.
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The existence of Carnivore was revealed when an attorney for Atlanta-based Internet service provider Earthlink Inc. told a House Judiciary Committee in April that the FBI was requiring the company to install the system on its network to fulfill court-ordered surveillance of criminal suspects.
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The popularity of social network games, like "Happy Farm" or "House Buying, " is growing rapidly in China, but virtual sales from these games still generate only modest revenues.
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