But it was only with the growth of the electric telegraph network in the 1850s that readings could be collected from a wide area quickly enough to follow the weather as it changed.
In November 2008, for instance, Agassi appeared with then San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to announce a billion-dollar project to build an electric car network to link San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland.
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And the electric charging network in Houston?
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Take Scrubs, a show the General Electric-owned network opted to dump after seven seasons.
For its second consecutive year, the General Electric-owned network ranked last among the big four networks, in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic, which advertisers pay a premium to reach, for the 2006 to 2007 season.
That'll be the coming out party for Kevin Reilly, dumped by NBC and then picked up as head of programming at Fox, and Ben Silverman, the guy General Electric 's network pushed Reilly under the bus to get.
NRG, meanwhile, has been ramping up its investments in solar and wind power as well as rolling out an electric car-charging network in the petro capital of Houston, of all places.
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The change came as Itron's research group in Paris realized it could exploit inexpensive new wireless chips and open-source software to create a so-called mesh network of electric meters that passed information among themselves, like firemen in a bucket brigade, instead of relying on expensive and less reliable individual connections to the Internet.
General Electric could leverage its CNBC network with Bloomberg's business news and market data.
It is also in the process of establishing a network of Supercharger electric car recharging stations across the country.
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Better Place has also struck a deal with GM Holden to allow owners of the Volt plug-in electric hybrid to use its network of fixed charging stations.
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Owned by the Lopez family, it has a big advantage: sister company Manila Electric Co. has a network of power poles across Metro Manila and many parts of Luzon island.
NBC, a broadcast network owned by General Electric, finally agreed to give its audience the full range of content ratings that the rest of the industry uses.
"They (computers) run our electric power grid, out telecommunications network, they run our railroads, our banking system, and all of them are vulnerable, at some level, to some degree to information warfare, or cyber-terrorism, " Clark said.
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Shenzhen stands out as a city that has deployed several hundred all-electric taxis, all-electric municipal buses and a charging station network.
Through ECOtality's new partnership, Sprint will provide the wireless network that will allow ECOtality to monitor and manage the Blink Network, an infrastructure of electric vehicle chargers across the United States, for use by consumers as well as commercial hosts.
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The strike has shut down much of the public transport network, with no metro or electric railway services in operation.
The network consists of voluntary agreements among electric utilities managed by Regional Mutual Assistance Groups (RMAGs) across the nation.
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Hybrids use diesel power where there were no overhead electric cables so could be used across the network without having to change locomotives or crews.
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Remember, this is the man who was dumped last spring by the fourth-place network NBC, owned by General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), only to be snatched up weeks later by the first-place one.
This, the world's largest charging network, consists of independently-owned electric-vehicle charging stations.
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While there are industries where it makes sense to allow duopolies or even monopolies to obtain economies of scale and network effects computer operating systems and electric utilities might be two examples the tradeoff usually is that they must accept closer government regulation to prevent price-gouging and other abuses.
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General Electric ( GE - news - people ) network, according to TNS Media Intelligence.
What Silverman has proved adept at is cutting costs, a skill that no doubt pleases the network's tight-fisted corporate parent General Electric.
In Australia, where he was overseeing a Better Place initiative, the company provides GM customers with a fixed-charging network and home chargers for the plug-in electric-hybrid Volt.
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For that reason the electric grid is a model of a neutral, innovation-driving network.
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Building a charging network has always been seen as a must to promote electric car driving.
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General Electric unit NBC Universal, News Corp. studio Fox, Disney network ABC and CBS sued Cablevision, claiming its proposed new DVR system would allow users to violate the studio's copyrights by making digital copies.
General Electric ( GE - news - people )-owned network hope will make it somewhat Tivo-proof.
General Electric ( GE - news - people )-owned network replaced five hours historically housed by dramas with the nightly 10 p.m.
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