We have spent trillions of dollars worldwide for the computers to create and process information, networks to move it around and the hardware to store it.
Crowdfunding can help meet these needs, and if managed effectively, can super-charge the process through localized social networks and face-to-face community events.
Such adaptability should also ease the process of integrating the networks of two companies following a merger something that is now a nightmare.
Indeed, it was Mr Jobs who was keen to push the marriage metaphor when he described the courtship process with the different UK networks, which ended with O2 winning the contract.
The largest is the creation of a standard to allow files to travel between networks, a process that often takes the Internet's standards body, known as the Internet Engineering Task Force, more than two years.
After a competitive bid process, the Laboratory selected DataDirect Networks to build the file system.
Adobe is trying to bring the power of networks to the design process.
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One way is to work with social BPM and tie networks into BPM, process management, and work flow tools for end to end solutions.
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In the process, they set up retail networks--groups of pharmacies, including Walgreen, where patients can go to pick up something needed right away, like antibiotics.
Nokia Siemens Networks will begin the process of engaging with employee representatives in accordance with country-specific legal requirements to find socially responsible means to address these reduction needs.
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Rad and Mateen, who founded the Los Angeles-based company last year with Jonathan Badeen and Christopher Gulczynski, point out that the app solves three problems that plague dating networks, and the process of meeting new people in general.
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The other networks will have to take part in an auction process at some point in 2013 to have sufficient spectrum to operate their own 4G networks.
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It works by exploiting computer networks to speed up the process of identifying and eradicating viruses.
Ofcom has told the government that the process could be accelerated to launch 4G networks in many places by May or June.
She said Kent Police's vetting procedures, which were used during the recruitment process, did not normally require social networks to be scrutinised for posts of this grade.
But it is making winners out of established companies, too: The rise in Internet traffic is forcing Internet carriers to build out their networks yet again, forking over billions to equipment makers like Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and Alcatel in the process.
But building them in trusting, collaborative networks is what makes the entire process less shellfish.
To verify those identities--a critical point in securing classified conversations--they'll join the world through the same authentication process they use to log on to their government networks.
You might be using a cell phone with the fastest available LTE Internet speed, but in order to take advantage of it, you need to be able to access networks with the infrastructure in place to process and deliver on that speed.
The best strategies to protect brands on social networks consistently encompass a combination of policy and process.
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These included the introduction of encryption to prevent third-parties eavesdropping on messages sent via unprotected wi-fi networks, and the adoption of a stronger authentication process to make it harder for scammers to hack accounts in order to send messages from them.
This would lead to issuers and networks fighting for merchant and consumer favor and in the process engaging in a race to the lowest prices.
We have been gathering and analyzing data throughout the year, employing the same tested and data-driven process with which TrueBridge underwrites its investments, and using our broad networks to assess the state of the venture capital industry as a whole.
But if social networks are starting to play a bigger role in the buying process, why is a social presence missing on most websites?
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However, since natural gas extraction from shale deposits is an expensive process, it makes perfect sense for the company to invest in distribution networks to spur the demand for the fuel.
The Grizzlies are in the process of being sold to Robert Pera, founder and CEO of the Ubiquiti Networks and he is not about to flip the team to Hansen.
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That coal- and oil-fired electricity powers our computers, enables the transmission of data between networks and, increasingly supplies the energy to servers that store and process an ever growing mountain of information.
Just like the Real Housewives are staged, so is much of the modern political process, to the benefit of the massive media conglomerates that sell advertising time on their networks.
There are alternatives to the bidding process that could have been used and would have left less of a debt on the mobile networks.
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The broadcast networks' continued viewership declines along with a recessionary marketplace factored into the decision-making process as well.
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