Mr Prince said there was a "very big traffic circle" and that the "jury is still out".
Their business is driven by the symbiotic alliance between the Net's outer edge, where individual users log on by the millions, and its inner core, where the big traffic moves.
And in what's becoming a tired refrain, Gap announced a 2% drop in same-store sales, as both its flagship Gap chain and its Old Navy units failed to generate big traffic.
There will soon be a big traffic jam at 3-D theaters as Alice in Wonderland (which hit theaters last weekend), Clash of the Titans and How to Train Your Dragon all jostle for those screens.
Subscribers, particularly in big cities, are often tormented by slow Internet access and dropped calls. 3G mobile Internet has turned into one big traffic jam, with new cars joining the queue at an ever-increasing rate.
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And in what's becoming a tired refrain, Gap (nyse: GPS - news - people ) announced a 2% drop in same-store sales, as both its flagship Gap chain and its Old Navy units failed to generate big traffic.
But lately those big-traffic generators have been under pressure, thanks to havoc in the marketplace.
To clarify, Netflix is small part of overall Internet traffic but a big part of last-mile traffic.
Miles Young, owner of M2commerce LLC, an online office-supply retailer in Atlanta, also has seen a big decline in traffic to his business's website, down 50% after the Google move.
Indeed, the few times a second team member does sit up front it's to help the driver navigate big-city traffic, mostly as a second set of eyes out for cyclists, rickshaws and tuk-tuks.
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"A big driver of traffic to Twitter last week was around the US Airways plane crash in to the Hudson River last Thursday, driving many posts and updates about the situation, " said Hitwise research director Heather Dougherty.
Tellabs, Inc. makes digital cross-connects, essentially big switches that direct traffic over telephone networks.
Several big projects to reduce traffic congestion in Bangkok continue to plod ahead.
It isn't yet clear whether 10, 000 motes can handle a lot of traffic without big power consumption and backlog problems.
By virtue of its size and authority, every new online offering it creates will make big ripples in Web traffic, Sterling adds.
We see a big spike up in traffic on tablets at 8 a.m. just before people come into the office, and again on the couch after work.
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Add that to growing middle class incomes and a bright future, and the online publishing divisions of the big dailies are seeing a traffic surge.
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But in Internet traffic, the big guys--WorldCom's Uunet, Sprint Corp.
The real shift happened though during the back-to-school push, where Facebook ended up catapulting to the top five traffic drivers for big companies like Best Buy and Wal Mart.
There were also doubts about the future of such a big plane if, as rival Boeing Co predicted, air traffic shifted towards routes between smaller airports rather than big hubs.
We have seen the transformation progressing and based on our observations traffic is clearly a big problem.
Angela Piearce, EDF's head of Sizewell C development, said the impact on traffic was "a big concern locally".
Big Data can help businesses avoid traffic jams on their way to a happy and productive workforce, according to The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
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Page had hours this morning to think about the fact that the company badly missed Street expectations for both revenue and profits, with a quarterly reprot that featured a big drop in margins, higher traffic acquisition costs and falling cost per click.
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The conventional wisdom was to build something big with lots of info and get traffic.
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My favorite moment came at a traffic light, when a big Dodge Ram pickup pulled up in the lane beside us.
Traffic gridlock looms in the big cities, especially Jakarta, where the number of motor vehicles has tripled to 9.5m in the past eight years but road space is growing at less than 1% a year.
After the September 11 airline hijacking attacks, restrictions were imposed on private flights and many commercial flights, such as traffic planes and helicopters, crossing big city airspace.
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