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...powers that be are taking away Jack Donaghy's microwave ovens. The cast of 30 Rock - a show about a fictional program on a very real TV network - will have to find a new target to make fun of, now that cable giant Comcast has finalized its bid on a majority stake in NBC Universal. If the plan gains final approval from government regulators, Comcast will have effectively bought a controlling 51% stake in the entertainment company from General Electric in a deal worth some $30 billion. As GE's vice president of East Coast television and microwave-oven-programming...
...first major broadcast network, founded in New York City in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (a subsidiary of General Electric) as a ploy to sell radios. (Radios absent programming, after all, are rather worthless.) Dubbed the National Broadcast Company, it originally had two separate networks, both focused primarily on the East Coast: the Red Network, which broadcast entertainment and music, and the Blue Network, which carried news. In 1927 the West Coast got its own version of the Red and Blue with the creation of the Orange and Gold networks, which largely showed the same programs. Two years...
...article “Alone in the Crowd: The Structure and Spread of Loneliness in a Large Social Network,” Christakis and his co-authors argue that loneliness can be transmitted from person to person within a social network, and that even individuals who are included in social networks can feel lonely. According to Christakis, the article on loneliness takes a more technical approach to the loneliness theory discussed in his newest book...
...study found that loneliness is prevalent on the “edge” of the network and is transmitted between connected individuals, who eventually sever their connections with each other...
...fact it took only about half the time for the funds to be used up is indicative of how this issue really is important to all people,” Jillson said, adding that several Square businesses have contributed to sustainability through a solar Wi-Fi mesh network and solar panels...