Nokia's clash with RIM centred on wireless local area network (Wlan) connections to the internet.
That means spending on a company's local area network suffers in a downturn.
In most offices, where there's often a local area network installed for sharing files and printers, sneakernets disappeared years ago.
Customers can make phone calls, send faxes, access the Internet, transfer images, transmit videos and log on remotely to a local area network.
An 802.11b network is meant to specifically replace the Ethernet cords you now need to connect your PC to a local area network.
They can also be used to transfer data, such as MP3 files, from one computer to another--or even to a home entertainment center--over a local area network.
My car, outfitted with a GPS position finder and an off-the-shelf wireless local area network (WLAN) communication system, was tipped off by another car carrying the same gear.
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With the Slingbox 500 and a smartphone installed with the SlingPlayer app on the same local area network, photos and videos are synced automatically -- from the phone to USB drive.
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The company also has extended the Mac's "file sharing" capabilities from the local area network to the Internet, allowing companies to more easily write workflow applications that run across machines in different locations.
The company, which provides phones that work off a wireless local area network (WLAN)--a Wi-Fi network designed for the workplace--had recently acquired KIRK Telecom, a privately held Danish provider of wireless communications products.
This includes a satellite to receive the movies, a cache server to hold them, a local area network to distribute them to the right screens, and media players and digital projectors for each screen.
According to the DISA briefing, no unit or command will be allowed to connect a local- or wide-area network to NIPRNET until the network goes through a formal connection approval process.
Before personal computers, corporate local area networks, and a global digital telephone network, the Internet was just a laboratory experiment.
Local targets would be established to cut cancer deaths in every cancer network area by 2012.
Local cable ratings on the YES Network reflect about 1% of metro area households, better than last year but still among the bottom six in the league.
He said he believed local knowledge of the area would be lost, but hoped that changes to the coastguard network would be successful.
"We believe an improved public transport network is essential if our area is to create new jobs for local people, so the completion of the Odd Down park and ride expansion is a step in the right direction, " said Ian Bell, Director of the Bath Chamber of Commerce.
There were "local area networks" and "online services" available before the Internet, but none that made individuals free to network on their own.
Monday, fighters from the rebel Free Syrian Army destroyed the Division of the Countryside, a government ministry, in the eastern area of Deir Ezzor, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCC), an opposition activist network.
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