Under the plans the coastguard service would have two nationally networked maritime operations centres, in Aberdeen and the Portsmouth-Southampton area.

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"Robots will be practically everywhere in the near future: assisting the elderly, in home care, as personal and security service providers, and they will circulate within a networked environment of communicating devices in the home and work place, " said Ohad Shvueli, Vice President, Commercial markets, Primesense.

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The 1, 500 vendors of security products and thousands of security service providers have had a single minded focus on defending against bad actors ever since the invention of networked computers.

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WattStation Network, a networked version of the charger, which will be available early in 2013, will work with the WattStation Connect online service.

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