Sixteen months into his stint as entertainment chief at the General Electric-owned NBC, the 38-year-old agent-turned-producer-turned-network honcho has yet to lift the once top-rated broadcast network out of the ratings basement.
And since I have not yet sold the handful of shares of Facebook I own, I guess I remain confident that they can still become a money-making SOCIAL network, and not turn into a doomed-to-fail Google-ish network that used to be social.
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The Internet, with its built-in peer-to-peer-network architecture, made new forms of collaboration possible.
Take Scrubs, a show the General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people )-owned network opted to dump after seven seasons.
You might think that the EV-DO technology path has seen better days, what with carriers like Bell and Telus defecting for HSPA and others prepping to pull the plug altogether -- but really, it might take nothing more than one massive, eight-figure subscriber deployment of a next-gen EV-DO network to get things up and running again.
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"It is the worst gas guzzler I have owned since a 1976 Ford Elite, " he lamented of the Honda Motor (nyse: HMC - news - people ) car in an e-mail to the Bluewater Network, a San Francisco-based environmental advocacy group.
As mobile data traffic continues to grow at a rapid pace, many mobile operators are transitioning from a 3G network to an all-internet protocol network, such as LTE, to manage the high volume of traffic and provide a high quality customer experience.
According to the DISA briefing, no unit or command will be allowed to connect a local- or wide-area network to NIPRNET until the network goes through a formal connection approval process.
Microsoft has also formed the so-called Freedom to Innovate network, a "nonpartisan, grass-roots network of citizens and businesses" that happens to reside on the company's website.
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William Moses seemed to have the right impulse when he and silent partner Jonathan Katch launched the Santa Monica, California-based Recovery Network in 1994--a cable TV network to help people deal with substance abuse, as well as family violence and depression.
Such popularity gave Ledford the confidence to develop a full-time, ad-supported network and to persuade cable companies to pay to carry it.
Such a gap, she argued, poses a problem for the very system the city has pledged to provide: a hop-on, hop-off network to shorten walking commutes and connect neighborhoods poorly served by mass transit.
He can talk about product placement and quarterly margins all he wants, but he'll ultimately be judged on his ability--or inability--to turnaround his ratings-challenged network.
Its small electronic-distribution system has allowed upstarts like the Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange (nyse: ICE - news - people ), an electronic energy-trading network, to whittle away at Nymex's market dominance in the sector.
The mobile industry is currently collaborating on a new wi-fi protocol called PassPoint which will allow consumers to use one sign-in to join any public wi-fi network, wherever they happen to be.
" He amplified this idea during his first post-inaugural interview which was granted to a Saudi-owned network, al-Arabiya: He is determined to "restore" the "same respect and partnership America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.
It can be used either as a wireless router to create an 802.11n Wi-Fi network anywhere one is needed, or as an access point (AP) to add Wi-Fi to an existing wired network.
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The company is constructing a next-generation 4G LTE Advanced-ready network to address the capacity needs of the market, and is also working closely with the Global TDD-LTE Initiative to further the TDD-LTE ecosystem.
They can expect to receive the high-quality customer service and access to a nationwide 4G network that T-Mobile users have come to expect.
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Policy networking -- the ability to set per-employee rules for network access and prioritize applications for bandwidth-constrained times -- is also expected to draw users' attention this year.
The year over year decrease in non-cash charges for network equipment reserves is primarily due to a decline in write-downs of network equipment no longer required for deployment or sparing as we solidified our LTE network plans.
Paul Matthews has been promoted from managing director of distribution - the insurance industry's sales network - to become head of the UK's newly combined sales and marketing division titled "Take to Market".
Meanwhile Clean Energy has teamed up with truck stop operator Pilot-Flying J to build a border-to-border network (to include these GE Micro LNG plants) by the end of 2013.
Its small electronic-distribution system has allowed upstarts like the Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange, an electronic energy-trading network, to whittle away at Nymex's market dominance in the sector.
" Maybe it should really be called the "year of long-delayed hi-def network-products finally making it to market.
Despite a pedigreed cast, including Everybody Loves Raymond's Patricia Heaton, and a massive marketing campaign--not to mention a network bidding war to air the show--the newsroom comedy failed to find an audience.
She has just set up a voluntary network of professionals - called the Young Action Online Open Network - who can offer advice to families dealing with ME.
In one, the Californian city of Santa Barbara set up a city-wide peer-to-peer network (in which the computers of different practices and clinics can talk directly to one another).
American Express has successfully implemented its spend-centric model and closed-loop network to achieve growth over the last few years and was one of the few financial companies to come out of the economic crisis of 2008 virtually unscathed.
Much like a 4G version of FON, subscribers to the Clearwire-rooted network are required to share their Internet link-ups with the public as a WiFi hotspot.
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