Some rivals include IBM, U.K.-based Autonomy --which acquired Verity in 2005--and Thunderstone .

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Blinkx's technology comes from U.K.-based enterprise-software vendor Autonomy (with which the company shares a San Francisco office).

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The most successful charter schools -- and let's be clear, not all charters are successful -- have demonstrated that increased autonomy, combined with site-based decision-making over the use of resources, can sometimes contribute to greater effectiveness.

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The bill, granting Mexico's 10m Indians more autonomy and recognition for their customs, is based on an agreement that the previous government reached with the Zapatists five years ago, and then reneged on.

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Aurasma, a start-up based in Cambridge, U.K. that was spun out of Autonomy Corporation, is aiming to do just that with the mobile app it created almost exactly year ago.

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While the academy programme under Labour was based on improving underachieving schools, the coalition government's proposals are focused on giving autonomy to the most successful schools.

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