It will also enhance employee productivity by automating daily checkout tests for 50 production environments and scheduling tests to automatically run overnight.

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It is spread when the infected USB device is inserted into a Microsoft Windows workstation or server whereby the setup.exe and autorun.ini files run automatically.

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Another notion: Using barcodes so refrigerators can automatically order milk and cheese when they run low or get close to their expiration date.

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These systems are becoming location-aware so many run on a mobile device and can show you local gigs automatically.

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The Times and the Herald Tribune already run a unified website, with visitors to IHT.com automatically sent to an international home page for the Times.

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