Most companies allow employees to expense business lunches, but few allow them to expense networking lunches.
Even in 1997, a new era was dawning, in which new technologies would permit households with more than one computer to experience the joys and economies of networking without the expense and trauma of rewiring the house.
Revolution Health, a consumer-centric health company developed by AOL co-founder Steve Case, features consumer-controlled health record "banks" bundled with health education, social networking and health expense management tools.
3Coms fiscal first-quarter profit rose 38% from a year ago, despite slightly falling sales, as the No. 2 maker of networking equipment reduced marketing expenses, cut 4% of its workers and managed its books better.
A novel networking paradigm, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), meets the user demands dynamically and reduces operational expenses (OpEx) and capital expenditures (CapEx), by implementing network functions in the software layer known as virtual network functions (VNFs).
In addition, Cisco thinks that sales might dampen if things get worse in Asia, while increased spending by corporations on the year 2000 bug might come at the expense of networking hardware equipment.
Entertainment apps and utilities gained marketshare at the expense of social networking and games.
The move is fairly ironic for two distinct reasons: first, because Facebook has been struggling to become the leader in social networking in India at the expense of Orkut, which is of course a Google service (it depends on who you ask which one is effectively leading, but Facebook has definitely been making strides all around the world).
That way, any expenses that you incur while networking aren't dipping into the funds you need for rent, utility bills, phone bills, etc.
To give the cliche force, the crises are now described as systemic and multiplying: three in as many years from banking to parliamentary expenses and now the corrupt networking of News International within the police and politics.
