Sentences with phrase «communication networks which»

Communication networks which are constructed for such purposes can, over and above their primary function, provide politically interesting organizational models.
The firm has developed a broad communications network which makes access to their website as well as to their customer service support team a cinch.

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Discovery Communications, which owns networks like the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, on Thursday became the latest TV company to invest in digital content in an effort to reach mobile viewers.
• Play Communications, which operates Poland's second largest mobile network operator, plans an IPO of up to $ 1.4 billion (5.2 billion zlotys), according to Reuters.
The U.S. networks increasingly are reliant on these retransmission fees, estimated at $ 3.3 billion last year and going up to more than $ 7 billion by 2018, according to research by SNL Kagan, which analyzes media and communications trends.
Bill Sandiford, president of Oshawa - based Telnet Communications, says 35 % of the traffic that leaves his ISP's network goes through the Toronto exchange, which he says translates into a 35 % reduction in what are called «transit costs.»
The concerns got real enough for a U.S. national security review to thwart Li's bid to buy part of Global Crossing Ltd., which operated a fixed - line communications network in North America, in 2003.
A slew of new technologies are threatening to turn wireless network operators (notably Telus Mobility, Rogers Wireless — which, like Canadian Business, is owned by Rogers Communications — and Bell Mobility, which owns Virgin Mobile Canada) into «dumb pipes.»
«With this agreement we will deliver capital and operating savings to our business allowing us to re-invest in our customers and our network, particularly in Western Canada which is a priority market for us,» said Rogers» president of communications Rob Bruce in a release.
They would prevent money from the $ 8.5 billion FCC Universal Service Fund, which subsidizes telephone service to poor and rural areas, from being spent on goods or services from companies or countries which pose a «national security threat to the integrity of communications networks or their supply chains.»
The Federal Communications Commission is considering more steps in the wake of growing concerns in Washington that Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp, which make networking equipment and handsets, could act as conduits for espionage, something the two companies have denied.
«Videoconferencing is a whole different experience today than it was a few years ago, and it's more affordable, which is driving it down» to smaller companies, says Brett Shockley, CEO at Spanlink Communications, a Minneapolis communications reseller that markets videoconferencing and other communications networks to small and mid-sizCommunications, a Minneapolis communications reseller that markets videoconferencing and other communications networks to small and mid-sizcommunications reseller that markets videoconferencing and other communications networks to small and mid-sizcommunications networks to small and mid-sized businesses.
Michaud is one of 137 people facing U.S. charges after the FBI in February 2015 seized the server for Playpen, a child porn website on the Tor network, which allows anonymous online communication.
It's teamed up with InfoSpace Inc., for example, to become the preferred print shop for that company's affiliate network of 2,500 Web - based businesses, which provide communications and commerce infrastructure services for wireless devices.
Japan's SoftBank, which fought Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) to buy Sprint, now just needs approval from the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. telecommunications regulator, to close the deal.
By 1996, two years into his tenure at Synoptics (which had merged with Wellfleet Communications and changed its name to Bay Networks), Orr was offered the CEO job at Alteon.
The signals travel in the unlicensed spectrum, which means Google doesn't have to go through the onerous regulatory processes required for Internet providers using wireless communications networks or satellites.
Michaud is one of 137 people facing U.S. charges after the FBI in February 2015 seized the server for Playpen, a child porn website on the Tor network, which is designed to allow anonymous online communication and protect user privacy.
«Marcelo has done a remarkable job of turning around the Sprint brand and business, driving enhanced network performance, strong subscriber growth and significant cost reductions leading to the best financial results in Sprint's history,» said Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. «Marcelo has also positioned Sprint as a leader in the race to 5G, which promises to revolutionize the communications industry.
Google's People Operations department has scrutinized everything from how frequently particular people eat together (the most productive employees tend to build larger networks by rotating dining companions) to which traits the best managers share (unsurprisingly, good communication and avoiding micromanaging is critical; more shocking, this was news to many Google managers).
At an investment conference late last year, David Zaslav, the chief executive of Discovery Communications, which operates the Discovery Channel, articulated the case for having networks rethink their relationship with Netflix.
Shares in optical networking equipment maker Acacia Communications Inc, which gained just under a third of its total 2017 revenue from ZTE, tumbled 35 percent.
It is also an investor in cable company Discovery Communications Inc (DISCA.O), which sources have said is engaged in merger talks with Scripps Networks Interactive Inc SNI.O.
ATS,» which authorized electronic communication networks to be used between traders to make deals outside exchanges.
FXOpen's most notable feature is their ECN accounts, a unique electronic communication network, which allow traders to connect with Interbank markets.
There was a significant fall in telecommunications imports, which had grown by 70 per cent in the first two quarters, reflecting the purchase of communication cables for the worldwide upgrade of the cable network and the upgrade of the domestic network for the carriage of the Olympics.
The new world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New York.
With the aid of systems theory, a discipline which is part of bourgeois science — using, that is to say, categories which are immanent in the system — it can be demonstrated that a linked series of communications or, to use the technical term, switchable network, to the degree that it exceeds a certain critical size, can no longer be centrally controlled but only dealt with statistically.
As inter-personal communication flows become patterned over time, a communication structure (or network) emerges, which is relatively stable and predictive of future human behavior (6)
Today, however, as the world grows smaller, as communications become swifter and more sophisticated, networks of support and interrelationships emerge which are not centered in the institution or controlled by the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
One of the great new hopes of the world is that the media of mass communication, and the shrinkage of the world in terms of transportation and so on, are going to lead to a rapid build - up of a world - wide network of communication and of mutual rewar4s, out of which I think can grow a feeling for all mankind.
Its controlling metaphors of «the man at the giant switchboard» and «the man in the cloverleaf,» which were meant to symbolize the communication grid and the mobility network of the modern metropolis, seemed implausible to people who had been denied both mobility and communication, and for whom the city was often not a place of expanded freedom but the site of more sophisticated humiliations.
The deal between Li Ka - shing and Murdoch was largely motivated by the pressure on his network caused by the announcement of Turner (CNN which spends some US$ 15 million to develop production capacity in Asia), Time - Warner's Home Box Office (on cable in some eight Asian countries), Capital Cities / ABC ESPN (the sports network), the Discovery Channel, and Hong Kong - based Television Broadcasting Inc. to compete with Star TV in 1994 after the launch of a Chinese communications satellite.
It is not limited to the operation of computer networks, but also encompasses all social activities in which digital information and communication technologies (ICT) are deployed.
These organizations also provide the communications network through which schools find candidates suitable for faculty positions and through which scholars seeking new positions find schools with appropriate openings.
«We are excited to unveil our 2015 event lineup, which includes the return of festival fan favorite events and a variety of new experiences for our passionate attendees,» says Lee Brian Schrager, festival founder and vice president of corporate communications and national events for Southern Wine & Spirits of America Inc. «Festivalgoers will have the opportunity to see their favorite chefs and culinary personalities, including both veteran and new faces from the Food Network & Cooking Channel, plus interact with leading winemakers and spirits producers from the Southern Wine & Spirits of New York portfolio.»
EtherNet / IP ™ is the primary communication network, which as well as providing the machine's data paths also gives Bar Graphic the ability to offer more seamless factory integration and remote support.
«Its findings show the extent to which high - speed global communications and networking drives our economy.»
The site which is launched by the Professional Associations Research Network (PARN) and Ashridge Communications aims to help the connection between Professional Bodies and young people; by encouraging and inspiring their career choices and giving practical advice when they are making academic decisions.
This suggests widespread problems beyond the specific site of damage, which may cause problems for communication in the whole system, not only in networks that have specific damage,» Sandberg said.
Tor Browser, which is actually a modified version of Firefox, essentially anonymizes the origin of Web traffic by encrypting communications inside the Tor network.
- The giant radio telescopes of NASA's Deep Space Networkwhich perform radio and radar astronomy research in addition to their communications functions — were tasked with observing radio emissions from Jupiter's radiation belt, looking for disturbances caused by comet dust.
The research brings truly long - distance quantum communication networks, in which satellites could beam encrypted information around the globe, closer to reality.
In a complementary survey conducted in 2004, which polled postdocs, communication came in ninth on a list that included mentoring, direction and vision, funding, networking, advancement opportunities, work culture, training, and employer situation.
Apple Computer, which has put the plan to the US Federal Communications Commission, says the system would allow people to create their own computer networks or have video conferences with other users up to 15 kilometres away.
Along with Mars 2020, STMD is hard at work, advancing promising technology for potential infusion into these Mars missions including: Heat - shield for Extreme Entry Environment, a tailorable, woven thermal protection system that would reduce entry loads and greatly reduce heat - shield mass; Deep Space Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks like GPS.
All five active Mars orbiters use the communication and tracking services of NASA's Deep Space Network, which is managed at JPL.
In the new paper, the technique the researchers have dubbed «aIR - Jumper» also enables the creation of bidirectional, covert, optical communication between air - gapped internal networks, which are computers isolated and disconnected from the internet that do not allow for remote access to the organization.
This includes testing Orion's communications capabilities with the Space Network, which was overseen by Severance's team in the NIC.
Such disorders, which include epilepsy and, experts theorize, schizophrenia and autism (SN Online: 7/17/15), can arise when the brain's communication networks develop off - kilter.
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