While crafting application and marketing materials, try consulting with networking contacts who currently hold senior management titles.
In 1996, I co-founded Netgear to provide homes and small businesses with networking equipment that helps make this transformation possible.
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Panasonic and PanaHome, a subsidiary concentrating on residential construction, will build the homes as well as equip them with networking and electronic devices.
But even with networking features installed in 7% of the 241 million cars on the road, manufacturers say there will be big safety improvements.
Some have pointed to a two-year deal Vonage signed with networking firm VoIP late last month to provide "certain network services" as a possible solution.
My day job keeps me busy from 9-7, and my nights are filled with networking events or working non-stop on the website, blog and logistics.
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Among the reasons: There's less competition, the season puts people in a receptive mood, and all those parties and family gatherings overflow with networking opportunities.
") IBM, for its part, has partnered with networking companies Juniper and Brocade to resell their hardware to its data center customers. (See: "IBM's Neutral Networking Play.
Wendleton says people often confuse direct contact with networking.
According to documents received by Forbes.com, Warner Music Group has spent months negotiating with networking giant Cisco Systems to use a nascent technology called Cisco Eos to simplify the music company's management of a large catalog of band Web sites.
She argues that one way companies can remain nimble and seize new opportunities is to deploy a small cadre of staff or consultants who are specifically charged with networking, making connections (between both people and ideas), and identifying nascent trends and possibilities.
Now Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), whose name is synonymous with networking, is eyeing that migration to the data center, and working on a big switch of its own--the biggest, in fact, that it has ever produced.
Mild-mannered and self-effacing, Mr. Liodice transformed the annual conference from a cocktail-and-golf boondoggle cliche into a marketing TED-like event, with an inspiring and energetically relevant agenda, where the focus is on learning and useful dialogue (laced with networking, entertainment, and of course, a bit of cocktails and golf).
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If you are in an industry for decades, not only do you develop a sixth-sense about what a good startup idea is (or is not), you can help the entrepreneurs you fund with networking leads, hands-on advice, and a host of other intangibles related to improved chances for success.
Homes and offices were filling up with personal computers sold by the likes of Dell or Compaq, with CPUs from Intel, running on Windows 95 and later iterations of the dominant operating system from of Microsoft, and connected to the Internet with networking equipment from Cisco Systems.
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Lore is part of a trend that builds on the familiarity with social networking that has come with the success of Facebook.
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All its computers now include a built-in antenna which, in conjunction with a networking card, can exchange data with a small base station plugged into a broadband Internet connection up to 45 metres (150 feet) away.
Another possible reason people seek to share these types of experiences is that as technology disconnects people -- with social networking sites, e-mail, text and instant message replacing face time -- those with common interests look for opportunities to be together, Yarrow said.
Jean Calvignac, an IBM fellow with IBMs Networking Hardware Division at Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, N.
But only 10 percent of companies had specific polices to deal with social networking sites, the survey reported.
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Tumblr combines elements of blogging with social networking, and its simple design has attracted millions of users since its launch.
Even so, Sutton argues much of the responsibility for making third-party applications secure will rest with the networking sites themselves.
Levo has also teamed with Equinox Fitness Clubs to host gatherings so women can combine their cardio with career networking.
Going forward, expect multiplayer online games to merge with each other and with social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn.
Whatever you do, Byrne says, you need to be aware of some key issues with social networking tools in general.
Young people might now be totally au fait with social networking sites, but are not aware of all the techniques of more traditional networking.
That's largely the result of a joint venture known as H3C with Chinese networking powerhouse Huawei that 3Com took full ownership of in 2007.
It's just too much of a hassle to add an external drive or tinker with Windows networking to use the drive on another computer.
With social networking sites witnessing huge traffic, airlines have an opportunity to monetize the phenomenon by making themselves more accessible at the point of demand.
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Today, the renamed Renren runs four major sites with social networking as the centerpiece: Renren social network, Renren Games, and business social network Jingwei, which launched in 2011.
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