PCs, of course, swept through the workplace and in only a decade most mainframes, and their high cost, air conditioned data centers, were gone.
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing publishes AQI values for Beijing and other cities in China, and the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection provides its own air quality data for cities throughout the country.
When operating properly, the monitors constantly sample the air and send data to EPA headquarters, where computers monitor the data and alert officials to unusual readings.
At the beginning of the season they would see the email and would occasionally use the data on air.
MEPs have voted to approve a new deal on the transfer of EU air passengers' personal data to the US Department of Homeland Security.
There are no fixed walls, and each deck is hollow, allowing technicians to run compressed air, electricity and data feeds to wherever they are needed.
Most people who already have a PayPass eligible Citi MasterCard can simply add it to Google Wallet over the air, using First Data's trusted service manager service.
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On behalf of the group, German MEP Axel Voss said it would ensure better protection of data for air passengers, and warned that aircraft carriers would be left in "legal limbo" without the international agreement.
Within five years, says Jeff Jury , Ibiquity vice president, analog AM and FM radio signals will go digital, and carry data over the air as well as traditonal audio signals.
American contested in a Fort Worth court in April that Travelport presents a civil antitrust threat to airlines that prefer to directly send its flight information to websites through its own technology, rather than go through a GDS, which aggregates flight data from many air carriers in exchange for regular fees from the airlines.
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Its new optical technology beams data straight through the air, from one window to another.
These measurements were then correlated with data on fine particulate air pollution.
According to data from the International Air Transport Association, the chance of a commercial Western-built aircraft having an accident last year was one in three million.
Citing international data, the Clean Air Network, another local green group, argues that local air is often three times as foul as in New York and London.
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To run simulations, Guillermo Owen of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, uses intelligence data from the US Air Force to estimate on a 100-point scale the importance a wanted man attaches to his likes (fishing, say) and priorities (remaining hidden or, at greater risk of discovery, recruiting suicide-bombers).
Currently, Air New Zealand offers both voice and data communications on two domestic Airbus A320 jets.
They used data from Chicago to predict air pollution levels around the city.
This hardware was used to build a simulated aircraft that ran many of the systems found on commercial aircraft and could swap data via radio with the air traffic and navigation systems used in the real world.
During a call the service monitors how fast data are going through the air and adjusts call quality so the video doesn't cut off when a network's load changes or someone roams to a new cellular tower.
But it is notoriously ill-suited to high-tech industries that have to tailor each item to a customer's specific needs (as in a data-switching centre or air-traffic-control system) or in which it is crucial that thousands of interrelated components all work correctly together (as in a rocket vehicle).
SITA, a co-operative formed by major world airlines in 1949 to provide communications and data-processing services to the air-transport industry.
We haven't dived too deeply into the patents themselves, but it looks like Ed's going to have a bit of a fight on his hands here, as the patents seem to describe systems that have preloaded content about music that's then accessed when a data trigger is received over the air, not just storing song information for later purchase over the Internet.
The targeted air-conditioning blows 70-degree air only on the servers that are serving up data.
The research team used data from a number of sources including air pollution reports, traffic counts and tax offices.
Paris (CNN) -- It should become easier to find flight data recorders in the wake of the Air France Flight 447 disaster, an aviation industry expert says.
Cohen and his team are tackling the next stage of research by using data from the U.S. Air Force under a joint research project with the University of Tennessee.
Since solar lanterns have higher adoption rates than clean cook stoves, such alternatives to kerosene for lighting may provide quick, cost-effective data for promoting policies that reduce indoor air pollution.
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This had pressured carriers such as British Airways, Lufthansa, Air France and others to start sharing passengers' data to U.S. despite risking being sued by passengers for breach of EU laws.
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