A preview version of the social networking service will be available to AIM users by the end of next week.
As for compatibility with older wireless-network cards and devices, the N1 Vision router uses the current draft version of the 802.11n networking standard, which has yet to be formalized, and upgrades to the finished version aren't guaranteed.
Industry analysts said the system is likely to have a notable impact on the way companies design data centers, and represents the possible dominance of a new version of the Ethernet networking standard that Cisco is designing to handle torrents of digital data.
Finally, Rupert Murdoch's Chinese-born wife, Wendi Deng, is in China with other News Corp. executives to help debut a Chinese version of the social networking site MySpace, according to the Financial Times.
The new chat app arrives just ahead of the planned public debut of a freemium version of the business networking platform, which Facebook said this fall was expected to arrive before year-end.
The company has already financed 175 experimental wireless networks using Wi-Max, a longer-distance version of the Wi-Fi networking standard.
Foreign reporters are not allowed to enter the courtroom, and instead must rely on carefully stage-managed briefings on the court's official microblog on Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of the banned social networking website Twitter.
We've released a new version of the Appleseed social networking software, version 0.7.9.
Asked by panel moderator, TechCrunch co-editor Eric Eldon, if the private version of the LinkedIn business networking service would be like others in this space, such as Microsoft-owned Yammer or Salesforce's Chatter, Weiner said that they would want it to be "specific and unique," versus the competitive landscape that currently exists.
Another start-up, Cumulus Networks, announced a new version of its networking system based on the free Linux operating system.
