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Mary Ann Azevedo
Mary Ann Azevedo is an award-winning journalist based in Silicon Valley.

Kirsten Chiala
Kirsten Chiala is a content producer for The Network, and is based in Silicon Valley.

Elizabeth Corcoran
Elizabeth Corcoran covers education and technology. She was the Silicon Valley bureau chief at Forbes.

Amy Cortese
Amy Cortese is an award-winning journalist and the author of Locavesting (Wiley, 2011)

Laurence Cruz
Laurence Cruz is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles.

Jason Deign
Jason Deign is a Barcelona-based business writer, journalist and author.

Kerry Doyle
Kerry Doyle has covered business and technology issues for over a decade.

Kristi Essick
Kristi Essick has covered technology for the Wall Street Journal and The Industry Standard.

Anne Field
Anne Field has covered entrepreneurship and small business for the New York Times and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

Lee Gomes
Lee Gomes has spent nearly two decades writing about technology, much of the time for the Wall Street Journal.

Scott Gurvey
Scott Gurvey was the New York bureau chief of the Nightly Business Report on PBS.

Melissa Jun Rowley
Melissa Jun Rowley is an award-winning journalist, on-air host, and content strategist with a passion for all things tied to social innovation.

Kevin Maney
Kevin Maney is an author, journalist and content consultant.

Julie Pitta
Julie Pitta was a senior editor at Forbes Magazine covering the high-tech and biotech industries.

Eric Rabkin
Eric S. Rabkin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan.

David Rogers
David Rogers teaches brands, marketing and digital strategy at Columbia Business School.

Joanne Taaffe
Joanne has contributed to science and economics titles including France's Science & Vie, and Science & Vie Junior.

Sue Tabbitt
Sue Tabbitt is a technology journalist who covers IT and telecommunications.

Wendy Tanaka
Wendy Tanaka is a former editor at The Network and technology editor at Forbes.

Steve Wildstrom
Steve Wildstrom is a veteran technology journalist who wrote the Technology & You column at BusinessWeek.

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06/17/2013

Connected Cars Get a Test Drive

By Steve Wildstrom
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Connected Cars Get a Test Drive

06/17/2013 By Steve Wildstrom

Cars need fuel or electricity to keep moving, but increasingly it is data that keeps them running right. Information from sensors in all of a car’s critical sub-systems, from fuel injection to brakes, feeds into electronic control units that ... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility, Innovation, Internet of Everything

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06/13/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: June 10-14

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: June 10-14

06/13/2013

1.) Proximity-Based Social Change One man used to look for fellow veterans in his community by scouting car bumper stickers, now he can use an app to get the information instantly. Find out how proximity-based social networking applications ... Continue Reading

Tags: Week in Review and Look Ahead

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06/11/2013

The "Mobile-First" Boom

By Laurence Cruz
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The "Mobile-First" Boom

06/11/2013 By Laurence Cruz

So you just missed the last plane home because you’re stuck in traffic in an unfamiliar city. It’s late. You’re tired, cranky. You need a hotel—fast. Fortunately, among your smartphone apps is Hotel Tonight , which claims ... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility

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06/10/2013

Proximity-Based Social Change

By Melissa Jun Rowley
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Proximity-Based Social Change

06/10/2013 By Melissa Jun Rowley

The next revolution of the Internet is upon us, and not only is it continuing to shape the way we do things, it's changing the way our things do things. In 2008, the number of devices connected to the Internet surpassed the number of people on ... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility, Social Media

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06/06/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: June 3-7

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: June 3-7

06/06/2013

1.) Leadership@Cisco: Wim Elfrink Wim Elfrink, Cisco's Executive Vice President, Industry Solutions & Chief Globalisation Officer talks about the importance of mentors, his role in building a Globalization Center in India, and how ... Continue Reading

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06/04/2013

Slideshow: Cisco Partner Summit 2013

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Slideshow: Cisco Partner Summit 2013

06/04/2013

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Tags: Strategic Alliances, Channel Partner, Partner Summit 2013

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06/03/2013

How Data is Changing Soccer

By Kevin Maney
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How Data is Changing Soccer

06/03/2013 By Kevin Maney

More than a decade after the "Moneyball" revolution in baseball, a new data age is dawning in the soccer universe -- and some of the early insights are already challenging century-old beliefs. Corner kicks don’t have any bearing on ... Continue Reading

Tags: Sports and Entertainment

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06/02/2013

The UK's 4G Rollout and Mobile Innovation

By Sue Tabbitt
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The UK's 4G Rollout and Mobile Innovation

06/02/2013 By Sue Tabbitt

The UK may be behind the curve when it comes to 4G adoption (services are being rolled out this year, following spectrum allocations – see box ), but this hasn’t hampered British mobile innovation. The UK is a hotbed of mobile ... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility, Innovation

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05/30/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 27-31

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 27-31

05/30/2013

1.) Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With "Day in the Life" Photographer Rick Smolan Rick Smolan talks to us about his role in chronicling the evolution of the network through the years, with projects like “24 Hours in ... Continue Reading

Tags: Week in Review and Look Ahead

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05/28/2013

Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With "Day in the Life" Photographer Rick Smolan

By Kirsten Chiala
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Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With "Day in the Life" Photographer Rick Smolan

05/28/2013 By Kirsten Chiala

In the mid 1990’s when millions of people were just getting used to cranking up their modems to surf the web and check their AOL accounts, Rick Smolan felt the world shifting. The photographer known for his “Day in the Life” ... Continue Reading

Tags: Network Trailblazers, Internet of Everything

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05/23/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 20-24

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 20-24

05/23/2013

1.) How The Internet Is Preserving Korea's Cultural Heritage Amy Cortese takes a look at online services that are uncovering local culture for tourists and giving historic dwellings new life. 2.) Social Media in Manufacturing ... Continue Reading

Tags: Week in Review and Look Ahead

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05/21/2013

How The Internet Is Preserving Korea's Cultural Heritage

By Amy Cortese
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How The Internet Is Preserving Korea's Cultural Heritage

05/21/2013 By Amy Cortese

April 30th marked the 20-year anniversary of the World Wide Web, the system of urls, hypertext and protocols that paved the way for what today we take for granted as the Internet. It’s hard to imagine how we managed to get by before ... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility, Sports and Entertainment, Social Media

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05/20/2013

Why Power Companies are Delving into Data

By Jason Deign
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Why Power Companies are Delving into Data

05/20/2013 By Jason Deign

A power cut in most places will bring down the streetlights for a while. But in India last July blackouts nearly brought down the country. Around 700 million people were without power because of a grid collapse dubbed ‘Blackout Tuesday.' ... Continue Reading

Tags: Smart and Connected Communities, Energy/Utilities

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05/19/2013

Manufacturing Snapshot: Does Social Media Matter?

By Kerry Doyle
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Manufacturing Snapshot: Does Social Media Matter?

05/19/2013 By Kerry Doyle

Social media continues to play a pivotal role in day-to-day commerce. It offers shoppers valuable resources, from product evaluations and opinions to advice and trends to watch, but what about social media's influence in the manufacturing sector, ... Continue Reading

Tags: Social Media, Manufacturing

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05/16/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 13-17

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 13-17

05/16/2013

1.) Behind the Scenes of a MOOC Don't know what a MOOC is? You're about to find out. We take a look at the technology and collaboration needed to create the new breed of open, online classes in higher education. 2.) ... Continue Reading

Tags: Week in Review and Look Ahead

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05/13/2013

Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Chris Anderson, Co-Founder & CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Wired Magazine Editor

By Amy Cortese
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Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Chris Anderson, Co-Founder & CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Wired Magazine Editor

05/13/2013 By Amy Cortese

As editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine for most of the 21st century, Chris Anderson has had a front row seat to the technological changes that continue to transform our world. He's explored some of these changes in his books, The Long Tail, about ... Continue Reading

Tags: Manufacturing, Network Trailblazers

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05/09/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 6-10th

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: May 6-10th

05/09/2013

1.)Leadership@Cisco: John Chambers Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers , shares thoughts about his family, his love of adventure, and how technology will change our lives in the future. 2.)Sports Analytics Goes High School: ... Continue Reading

Tags: Week in Review and Look Ahead

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05/07/2013

Get Off of My Cloud: Why CIOs Must Accept and Integrate Personal Clouds into the Enterprise

By Kristi Essick
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Get Off of My Cloud: Why CIOs Must Accept and Integrate Personal Clouds into the Enterprise

05/07/2013 By Kristi Essick

Many consumers today use personal cloud services such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, Evernote, and iCloud. The lure of these services is clear: they allow users to store files such as documents, notes, and photos on a central server – ... Continue Reading

Tags: Cloud, Security

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05/05/2013

Sports Analytics Goes High School: Small-budget Coaches Get Big-league Capabilities

By Kevin Maney
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Sports Analytics Goes High School: Small-budget Coaches Get Big-league Capabilities

05/05/2013 By Kevin Maney

National Basketball Association teams have long wielded big budgets for data analytics that can break down tendencies of rival teams. But this year, a disruptively cheap web-based version of the technology helped the high school boys on the Fort ... Continue Reading

Tags: Sports and Entertainment, Mobility, Innovation

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05/03/2013

The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: April 29-May 3

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The Network Week in Review and Look Ahead: April 29-May 3

05/03/2013

Healthcare and The Cloud Can’t quite remember everything about your medical history? A former RN says the cloud can help. Find out what else she says as we take a look at the benefits and challenges of cloud computing in ... Continue Reading

Tags: Week in Review and Look Ahead

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