Fire authorities and ambulance services will be given automatic access to phone and internet data along with six other state agencies.

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Microsoft has launched an Internet-based automatic patent monitoring service, which tracks changes to a variety of Patent Registers in Europe and North America to help with its cause.

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Many suppliers are connected to HP via the Internet and get real-time consumption data and automatic replenishment orders.

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Essentially, Google captures every page on the Internet, and sets it up as a nearly automatic load to a search result.

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Also, offering automatic captioning for English first did make sense because English is the lingua franca of the internet, so they probably had heaps of data about it and the demand for autocaptioning in it was great.

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The Ministry of Justice and Home Office will also consider whether orders restricting internet use can be enforced using "cyber tags", software which triggers automatic warnings to the police or probation service that a suspect is breaching an order.

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Lawyers and experts on internet policy say no court case has ever turned on the presence or absence of such an automatic e-mail footer in America, the most litigious of rich countries.

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