Apparently in our online world of virtual networks, the last thing we want is to be pestered by brands and companies.
Put simply, virtual networks and communities around the world have democratized the ability for anyone to rise to power and influence the masses.
Jean-Baptiste Meyer, of the French Institute of Research for Development, has traced a growing number of virtual networks that link together a country's expatriate researchers, scientists, students or business folk.
And while modernizing the physical and virtual networks that connect us will create private-sector jobs, they'll do so while making it possible for companies to more easily and effectively move their products across this country and around the world, and that will create more jobs.
But technology today has enabled mini-networks and single offices to become virtual global networks as well.
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Cisco provides network security products such as virtual private networks (VPNs) and firewalls.
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Yet another: YouTube or its users might create virtual video networks made up of select comedy shorts, say, or news.
Leverage firewalls, virtual private networks, anti-virus and anti-spam software and secure mobile solutions to secure network access and mobile devices.
Cisco offers security products like firewall, intrusion prevention, remote access and virtual private networks (VPNs), unified client, web, and email security.
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Others are located halfway across the world, at company owned facilities in Europe or Asia and accessed through our virtual private networks.
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Despite falling prices for high-speed bandwidth and wireless service, telecom budgets keep growing because of increased usage and new services such as virtual private networks, voice-mail storage and Web hosting.
The jab comes as Apple announced it will build a slew of business-friendly features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, including support for push e-mail, push calendaring, push contacts, virtual private networks and support for certificates and identities into the next version of its iPhone operating system.
In parallel, define a security architecture and migration strategy that provides security through browsers, Secure Sockets Layer and passwords in the short run, and gets you started on PKI by deploying technologies such as IP Security virtual private networks and the Secure Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions e-mail standard.
"We've been asked by service providers to see what we could do with a box in the home--ways to move music around the house, set up mobile units, or establish virtual private networks between home and business, " said Dan Sheinman , Cisco's senior vice president for corporate development.
The jab comes as Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) announced it will build a slew of business-friendly features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, including support for push e-mail, push calendaring, push contacts, virtual private networks and support for certificates and identities into the next version of its iPhone operating system.
Most customers are confining their virtualized infrastructure into secure zones, or virtual local area networks (VLANs).
And just as in real life, purchasing an expensive virtual good can send signals of status, wealth and power within virtual worlds and social networks.
Alcatel-Lucent, which owns Bell Labs, isn't committing to a time to market for the application, but analysts say the first uses of gesture control and virtual conferencing on wireless networks and handsets will arrive late next year.
PlaySpan is currently on more than 1, 000 online games, virtual worlds, and social networks.
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In Europe operators are increasingly renting their networks out to virtual service providers and are sharing capacity.
Cyberpunk star William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and a number of other writers have also taken cracks at portraying global networks replete with virtual reality.
News on the virtual street travels quickly across existing networks of friends -- whether it's via email, blogs or messageboards.
The trial quickly snowballed into a made-for-the-tabloids drama, garnering daily coverage from cable news networks and spawning a virtual cottage industry for talk shows, legal experts and even Arias, who used her notoriety to sell artwork she made in jail.
And he noted the four networks no longer have a virtual monopoly on television content.
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All of the ingredients for rapid take-off are now in place as smart phones and tablets rapidly proliferate, networks expand and services go virtual.
The companies involved in that market have recieved fresh scrutiny, however, since blogger Mike Arrington began publicly arguing that social games have become a conduit for scamsters and spammers to push their wares in social networks by enticing players with virtual lucre.
So now human communications networks are often based on "virtual pheromone trails".
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And traffic between geographically separated company networks can be routed through a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel instead of being exposed to the open Internet.
Or will the global zeitgeist tire of kitten videos and plow YouTube under the treads of hundreds of millions of virtual tractors tending to their farms and social networks on Facebook?
But several would-be virtual operators are lobbying the regulator to force the networks to give them a better deal.
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