China Mobile's largest rival, China Unicom, will be able to rid itself of a cumbersome, overlapping network using the CDMA standard, which is incompatible with its more popular GSM-based network, by selling it to the country's fixed-line operator, China Telecom.
That means 500 million GPS phones walking around in cities and towns, creating a powerful two-way sensor network that Nokia and others can tap for selling targeted advertising, friend-finder services and city guides.
Augustine's Hospital busted a global ring: Slum-dwellers from Brazil and Moldova were selling their organs to an Israeli-led broker network, which then used the Internet to pull together over 100 willing kidney transplant patients from Israel, Europe and the U.S. Donors and recipients, posing as relatives, were flown to South Africa and operated on by elite doctors in Durban.
Indeed, Verizon has introduced four Android phones on its network since last fall, including the best-selling original Motorola Droid and the well-received Droid Incredible from HTC.
Ideas can also exhibit network effects, as the author of any best-selling book or producer of a hit television show will happily tell you.
Instead, it set up a network of village-level entrepreneurs who are responsible for marketing, selling, and recharging the lights.
Meanwhile, production is under way on another film about Jobs' life, written by Aaron Sorkin ("The Social Network") and based on Walter Isaacson's best-selling book.
In addition, Polycom has a global channel network and high-touch sales force that may do a better job of selling SpectraLink's products to a broader customer set.
Under orders from the European Commission, Lloyds is selling 632 branches, equivalent to 22% of its branch network - and initial bids need to be received by mid July (which is a bit quicker than expected).
Once Verizon has built up its fiber-optic network enough to offer direct connections to homes, the company plans to start selling television and movies over those same pipes.
The serialized drama from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, based on Stephen King's best-selling novel of the same name, will premiere on the CBS Television Network on June 24, 2013.
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In 16 years of selling millions of network routers to businesses and buying dozens of rivals, it was a paragon of high-tech growth.
Chip vendors will be building more device chips and cell site radio chips, infrastructure companies are selling more cell site equipment, and since WiMAX and LTE are both IP-based networks, network back-ends will be converted from traditional switches to routers so there are opportunities for companies that make routers.
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