For Patton, who works for a financial services company near Boston, social network scraping is only a hobby.
Jennifer Allen is with the Border Action Network, which is pushing for not only a guest worker program but legalization for millions of immigrants already here.
The advantage of the rival NTT technique, says Saruwatari Masatoshi, a senior researcher at the company's Optical Network Systems Laboratories, is that it uses only a single light source.
It is a packet-switched technology, and only consumes network resources when data is being transmitted, so it is widely expected that customers will be charged for the amount of data they exchange, rather than the time they spend logged on to the network.
Though Sprint supports more than a dozen devices on its fast, 4G network, including three phones, the Echo is a 3G-only handset.
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Also, LTE as a network technology not only supports higher speeds but is also more efficient than current 3G networks at handling data, reducing maintenance and handling costs.
His dream, like every other executive at every network but Fox, is to find a show that cannot only holds its own against American Idol, but finally knock it down a peg or two.
Currently their main obstacle is the unwillingness of cable operators to put a network of interest to only a fraction of their viewers on a tier available to a broad number of their subscribers.
Over sixty years on and the trust is the only UK charity with a national network of nine specialist wetland visitor centres, and is the home to the world's largest collection of swans, geese, and ducks.
Third, each delegation is assigned an IP address on the network, so that a delegation can only vote on that IP address.
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This sounds like a good idea, in terms of network performance, but is that the only thing going on here?
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These numbers are even more impressive when you consider that the social network launched just a little over three weeks ago and is still available only by invitation.
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Mobilcom, which charges a flat rate of DM0.19 a minute for long-distance calls in Germany (a third of Deutsche Telekom's peak rate), is so popular that most customers trying to reach its network find only a busy signal.
The need for a nationwide, fully interoperable Public Safety-only broadband network is demonstrated every day, and during major emergencies it will provide better and quicker response for all of those involved in managing the emergency from the federal government down to the local sheriff and fire chief.
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He predicts that Cisco's territory, which is the core of the computer network, will become a commodity whose value lies only in its ability to move bits as quickly as possible (although, to be fair to Cisco, it is a commodity that many firms would love to supply).
The economy is only one important part of a huge and dynamic network, which we understand very poorly.
It is only belatedly spending money to rejuvenate a retail branch network that for years suffered from underinvestment.
The first buyer that comes to mind is LightSquared, which is trying to roll out a wholesale-only fourth-generation network using what was satellite spectrum for a terrestrial build-out.
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There is only one reason to attend a networking event: to network.
Ms. Heller, 36, is CEO of the invitation-only social network, which began nine years ago as a site where fancy people could trade tips on art openings in London or samba nights in Reykjavik. ("Facebook for the few, " as Ms. Heller put it with a sigh.) An invitation to A Small World was once highly coveted, but the site's social currency has waned in the Twitter age.
While major conferences now have their own networks, ND is the only school to have its own joint venture with a national TV network.
Thus far this summer, the network is similarly the most watched and the only to grow its audience thanks to a schedule filled with high-performing repeats over low-brow reality.
Snob--one component of a Russian media entity that also includes a website, a social network and live events, all open only to paid members--is not, as you might guess, a celebration of wealth and status but a rather serious and highbrow forum for ideas and culture.
This year only the U.S. Women's Open is on a major network, but Whan said he hopes that NBC, Golf Channel's corporate sibling, will air four or five tournaments in 2013.
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It is a trust I value, but -- as it is dependent on the good graces of Facebook -- it is a trust I can live up to only by unfriending this particularly anti-social social network.
Alexis Bowater, the chief executive of a British charity, the Network for Surviving Stalking, is campaigning for European Union countries to adopt a common approach to stalking: only 12 out of 27 member states have specific laws against it.
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Once the network is built Point One will seek its own commercial customers, offering a broad array of data services available only over an IP network.
Available only to those in its (slowly) expanding FiOS network, Verizon is out to give subscribers a kinda sorta new way to watch television, and, of course, to cash in on the time-shifting craze while the window of opportunity is still open.
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