Back then, the idea of offering free peak-time calls to consumers calling contacts within the same network was novel.

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Even the FCC admits that in such markets "discrimination" among applications and content can benefit consumers as Internet providers seek to differentiate their network offerings in novel ways responding to consumer demand.

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Glasberg said a television network had obtained a copy of a novel Hatfill was writing -- about biological warfare -- that could have only come from the scientist's computer, which federal authorities have confiscated.

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Author Orson Scott Card gave us an Internet-like network 15 years ago in Ender's Game, a novel in which message boards were used as propaganda vehicles to take over the world.

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The book, written by Fortune senior technology writer David Kirkpatrick, gives an inside look into the company and its meteoric rise (and is not to be confused with that other fictionalized Facebook novel that the upcoming movie, The Social Network, is based on).

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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 his 1990 novel Earth, Brin depicted a time just a few decades from now when a worldwide network would connect everyone.

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The mid-1960s were awash in Bond parodies in the cinema and on network television, with films like Our Man Flint and the original Casino Royale (a parody of Fleming's novel that starred David Niven as Bond and Woody Allen as James Bond's nephew) in 1966 and 1967.

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