Emotion UI is also pre-installed with a smartphone housekeeper function to support real-time data traffic tracking, automatic blacklisting and blocking, periodical system cleaning, and spontaneous exiting of idle programs and cache cleanup, in addition to anti-virus, energy saving, privacy protection, software management, and more.

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Entrants to the consumer-finance business are soon expected to gain access to valuable data when Terranet, a new industry-run credit bureau, is set up next month (assuming blocking efforts by Takefuji, the industry leader, which claims that it might be illegal to disclose some data, fail).

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Data seen by the BBC suggested that the blocking of The Pirate Bay had only had a short-term effect on the level of pirate activity online - with levels of peer-to-peer sharing returning to normal soon after.

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The accumulating data led researchers at Zeneca Group, now AstraZeneca, to wonder whether blocking EGF receptors with a drug might slow tumor growth.

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In addition to data-intensive web applications, Shalom sees applications like fraud detection, 3-D animation, and blocking malicious software as some of the beneficiaries.

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