The new iOS 4.3.3 alters how the iPhone and the 3G iPad devices store and back up a built-in location database cache.
And because the whole system can store so much information, back-up copies of everything in it can be made internally in more than one brick, meaning that such a failure destroys no data.
So Steiner did what the entrepreneurs he often wrote about did: he went out and got funding from seed-funding VC firm YCombinator for a technology he believes can bring customers back to the stores and he signed up two grocery store chains to test out his idea.
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Stores wind up heavily discounting the used goods to get them back out of the store.
When we arrived, they all made a beeline for the drug store and loaded up on vitamins that they could take back to their parents.
The stock would be under more pressure, except winding down a costly store-makeover program a while back has let Safeway ramp up its share-buyback program.
Can Microsoft make it up on the back-end, relying on sales through the Windows 8 app store and Xbox Live annual memberships to reach a break even point?
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February same store sales actually inched up 2% in China, on the back of flat numbers at KFC and a 13% surge in Pizza Hut, as Chinese consumers ramped up purchases around the Lunar New Year.
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Commercial products which are apparently only about a year to 18 months away and as de Smet details in the video, could land on store shelves in a compacted rolled-up form for "unpacking" back home.
Many migrants use their South African earnings to acquire a herd of cows (the main store of wealth in rural areas) or to set up a small business back home.
However, Starbucks same-store sales are up 7% for end of fiscal year 2010, so it continues its bounce back from a tough 2009 when the chain was down 6%.
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