And while tracking service TNS predicts Internet advertising will increase 13.4%, and newspaper advertising will fall 0.9%, publications that cater to Hollywood say they are seeing more dollars than ever.
Another highlight is that in addition to the existing Flyme Cloud backup and phone tracking service, Meizu's also finally launching a much-needed free video and lossless music cloud platform, and this time it's done in collaboration with legit content providers like Sina, Tencent and LeTV.
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But the slide has been going on for years: the old crusty guys working their beat at a stately pace in town here, the high rates for shipping, the poor (and expensive) tracking, and now the cutbacks in service.
In March, the company launched Square Register, an iPad-based point of sale service for accepting payments and tracking inventory.
The consultants had, after all, worked with the postal service on electronic tracking and with electric utilities on using smart meters.
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It turns out that there was and it was something different from a personal tracking service.
When flights were delayed, the average delay was 55 minutes, down from 57 minutes in 2008, according to FlightStats, a flight-tracking service that collects data from airlines, airports and the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Shipping records dug up by import tracking service ImportGenius.com, however, show Apple and its partners secreting shipments of a mysterious new device into ports on both coasts.
According to the tracking service, 73 percent of the audience was female, and 78 percent was at least 25 years old.
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Zynga now has 46.8 million monthly active users of "CityVille" on Facebook and 33.2 million for "Zynga Poker, " according to tracking service AppData.com.
It is difficult to share a software feature and harder still to excite enthusiasm among a group of friends about a service like health tracking.
Foreign investment flows into emerging market stocks and bond funds slowed in the week to March 7, according to EPFR Global, a fund tracking service in Cambridge, Mass.
Fujistu spotted this gap, and created Wandant -- a sensor-laden neck tag for dogs complete with cloud-based service for tracking your pooch's wellbeing.
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