Oscar also served as President of both the Enterprise Solutions division and the Intelligent Internet division at Nortel Networks.

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Standard Life expects the bank to make a profit in 2002, but Mr Spowart has already moved on to Halifax bank, for which he is next month starting a new telephone and Internet bank, Intelligent Finance.

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The forum will drive a blueprint for how technologies associated with the Internet of Things should and could work together to support the 50-billion intelligent devices due to be connected to the Internet by 2020.

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The XBR LED Internet TV features Sony's Intelligent Peak LED Backlight which uses full-array local dimming for better detail in black, and improved brightness creating incredible on-screen contrast.

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CDNs can be thought of as repeaters, stationed strategically to help manage the Internet traffic by avoiding the backbone or by finding intelligent routes through it.

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As electronic goods become more intelligent and are connected more to the internet, Samsung expects to reap an advantage, because it produces many of the chips that make these machines think.

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That's why many economists embrace intelligent infrastructure spending on roads, bridges, schools, electric grids and rural Internet access as effective stimulus elements.

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The most established technology related to tracking social media comes from Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) platform, which has been scanning the Internet using techniques based on patterns and probability for more than a decade.

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