Because of Match, my music collection is now complete and essentially identical on all my computers and on my iPad and iPhone, allowing me to access any of my songs from any of these devices, without manual synchronization via a cable, or paying more than once for the same song.

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Smartphone users can take advantage of live remote synchronization or check off a to-do item by, for example, scheduling an appointment in the field or following up on something via a phone call.

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This is a real product, HomeCloud DHM (a consumer network appliance that facilitates sharing and synchronization of data among home devices such as computers, phones, tablets, network-compatible TVs, etc.) and WSTL should begin earning real money in mid-2011.

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With iOS 5.x Apple offers synchronization between your iPhone or iPad, your Mac or Windows PC, and a cloud archive of personal data, photos, and media (music, TV shows).

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The trouble with this approach to the relatively slow interconnection of the processors, latency and lack of real-time security is that there are synchronization and communication challenges, software programming complexities and other issues that are exacerbated in a cloud computing environment.

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ConnecTV uses a combination of content recognition algorithms, closed caption and a diverse mix of more than 100 data sources to drive the accuracy, relevancy and speed of synchronization with television programming.

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It also has GPS for tracking your location, and fully supports over-the-air synchronization of email, contacts and calendars -- through Microsoft Exchange in corporations or via a similar new consumer service from Apple called MobileMe.

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Jeter was obtaining an all encompassing education on the synchronization of his motor units and how to maintain powerful and explosive movements over the course of a 162 game schedule.

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