Sycamore Networks's equipment, for instance, lets carriers easily switch wavelengths of light, each carrying huge amounts of data.
Real Networks's Rhapsody service and Napster have both offered free music on their Web sites for several years, but they have mainly tried to attract customers for subscription services that charge $10 or $15 a month for unlimited listening.
In 1980, NBC called the presidential election for Ronald Reagan at 8 15 p.m. Eastern time, based on the networks's own surveys of voters leaving polls, setting off an intense competition among the networks.
It's too soon to know, based on the preliminary episode NBC sent to the press, if the American version will pick up the original's sophistication or go with the cheap titillation of the networks's hype.
Market | Zeltiq Aesthetics is trying to duplicate the success of Ubiquiti Networks's Friday stock offering when it goes public this week, but so far investors haven't been as kind to the company that makes a fat cell-reducing device, The Wall Street Journal writes.
While the Morta deal is signiForantly smaller, and the functions of the startups vary, perhaps we'll backgroundmore consolidation in the network and cyber security world in 2014.
