"It's one of those rare times where I'd use the term 'unique.' " I.B.M. and many other companies routinely use their private Internet networks, known as intranets, to poll workers and broadcast information to them.
Troops and families living on U.S. bases will still be able to view the sites through private Internet networks, but the move leaves service members in Iraq and Afghanistan who use the popular picture- and video-sharing sites with little or no access to them.
Some of the Facebook users whose accounts or pages were taken down on Tuesday used VPNs, private internet networks and internet phone services "to hide their identity," Facebook officials told reporters.
Putting Broadcast.com well ahead of any competition is the private Internet Protocol network it owns and uses to transmit programming.
If you need to share your Social Security number online make sure you do so using a private wireless internet network.
For that, Fabrik is building a secure private Internet-hosted network designed to keep out extraneous and untrusted communications and communicants.
Alcatel, the French telecommunications company, said yesterday that it had signed a deal to build Iran's first private high-speed Internet network.
Businesses often deploy private Internet-type networks (intranets) for sharing information and collaborating within the company, usually insulated from the surrounding general Internet by computer-security systems known as firewalls.
"Print and post" communications had the highest median preference rating (7/10), followed by email and telephone (both 5/10), text messaging (1/10), and private Internet-based social network messages (0/10).
"This was like a phone network and a private Internet that IBM had," says Jupiter's Chaki.
BERLIN — Prosecutors in Hamburg opened a criminal investigation of Google on Wednesday over its collecting of private Internet data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in Germany.
