The queen of daytime TV is making a tough transition away from network to cable.
And, one hopes, lessons learned from the earlier effort will improve an eventual plan for a similar transition for the telephone network.
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Adopting Facebook's philosophy, Sony will transition to an online game network based on real names, even as people will also be able to keep their aliases.
After two and a half decades as a popular talk-show host, Winfrey will be making the risky transition from daytime leader to network co-owner and cable host come 2011.
The legacy carriers could identify a few local areas in which to test transition to an all IP network free of outmoded regulations and see if doing so inadvertently interferes with normal market behavior.
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As with any large-scale network initiative, implementation of this carrier-class Wi-Fi transition will take some time, but rest assured these issues are being addressed by the mobile operator community and at least one of their Wi-Fi suppliers.
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"We're in a transition with our comedy programming and trying to broaden the audience and broaden what network does, " NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt told critics at the Television Critics Association's press tour in Beverly Hills on Tuesday.
These actions support our strategy to transition from being a first-party web game developer to a multi-platform game network.
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In the longer term, however, China Mobile, which has over 600 million 2G subscribers currently, stands to gain heavily from this transition as handset makers bring out compatible smartphones and the carrier gradually rolls out a nation-wide LTE network.
Going forward, as smartphone makers increase their focus on China by bringing out more TD-SCDMA handsets and China Mobile launches its 4G LTE network, the carrier will be able to reap the advantages of having a huge 2G subscriber base to transition to 3G.
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