Using the wireless network manager utility on your device, search for "Push2TV" wireless network name (SSID) and connect.
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GridPoint makes its money by selling its smart grid network to utility companies (manufacturing of the devices is handled by a third party).
The network monitors utility rate schedules and automatically transmits a signal to the vehicle through embedded cellular connectivity to start charging at the lowest cost.
In 2003, IBM co-founded the US-based GridWise Alliance that advocates for grid modernization, and in 2007, IBM formed the Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition (GIUNC), a coalition of players in the energy and utilities market, which is helping accelerate the adoption and use of smart grid technologies and bringing digital intelligence to current systems.
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Launching in early 2012, this yet-to-be-name app will allow 800 million Facebook users to pull home energy usage data provided by their utility provider (the non-Oprah-Winfrey-related Opower works with a growing network of more than 60 utility companies across the country) and share it, warts and all, with fellow Facebookers.
The PlayStation Network is a free utility that lets gamers communicate and play with each other, as well as download games and movies.
In new public offerings, Silver Spring Networks, which operates a hardware and software network designed to help utility companies create what is known as a "smart grid, " surged on its listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
Silver Spring operates a hardware and software network designed to help utility companies create what is known as a "smart grid, " or a responsive electrical infrastructure that can provide data on usage to help lower costs and maximize efficiency.
Start-up PayNearMe is bringing its cash payment network to bus tickets, utility bills payments, international money transfers and mobile account transfers.
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In many ways the landline network is still an essential utility.
Mr. MICHAEL SHAMES (Executive Director, Utility Consumers' Action Network): Filling up used to be painful, like going to a dentist.
The utility now knows what is happening in its network and power cuts have become rare.
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Instead, Scaglia has chosen to collaborate with AEM, the recently privatized Milanese electrical utility, to build a home- base network alongside of AEM cables in and around Italy's richest city, Milan, which accounts for 30% of the country's telecom spending.
Our Broadband Acceleration Initiative has reduced barriers to network buildout by lowering the cost of stringing new fiber on utility poles and reducing wait times to get approval for new cell towers.
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At another utility, in an undisclosed city, Slammer downed the computer network controlling vital equipment.
Under the best-case scenario, the utility would simply push a firmware update across the standard wireless network to all the affected meters, overwrite the worm, and return the meters to normal operation.
If Facebook truly becomes the social network hub of the world then that will end up being regulated as a utility just like the power companies have been.
Company officials note that thanks to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, the world has been taught how to use the new social media utility, but unlike the others, Cancer.im is more than a social network.
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Adrian Curtis, food bank network director for the trust, said the increase in numbers using UK food banks reflected a rise in food and utility bills, people losing their jobs and having less disposable income, and greater awareness that food banks exist.
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