Mobile search increasingly can weave global positioning data and profiles of a user's past searches to yield relevant, location-sensitive "contextual" results.

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Yet the nature of m-commerce transactions, most relatively small in size and concentrated on items that are time- or location-sensitive, will limit the overall size of the m-commerce market.

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It's not just about speed, though -- the new gear also supports interesting new services, including the ability to notify users when other users (for example, children) have entered the base station's range and reception of time- and location-sensitive coupons directly to phones presently attached to the cell.

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Putting the bulk of computing and storage in the data center has other perks for IT management: It creates a centralized location for software upgrades across an entire organization and puts a layer of network security between users and sensitive data--a lost thin client laptop, for instance, doesn't contain private information, and so doesn't pose a threat of causing a data breach.

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