Dick Lynch, chief technology officer of Verizon Wireless, explains that no wide-area wireless network can afford to build out wide-area data capacity to handle bursts of demand for wireless data that change from airport gate to gate every 30 minutes or so.
If we expose these hidden costs, consumers will be able to make informed data usage decisions and app developers will be incentivized to be mindful of data usage and to build data-efficient apps.
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With the fervor of a convert, he's urging utilities across the country to build data-delivery systems on their power grids.
Armed with that knowledge, we can start to build a cloud security approach from a data-centric standpoint, designing it to keep our critical data safe and building clouds that are even more secure than we once thought possible.
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Dish Network just recently received approval to use some spectrum it owns to build a mobile-data network.
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Clearwire is looking to build a high-speed voice and data service based on next-generation wireless standard WiMax.
Last month Mayor Sly James kicked off Launch KC, a program to provide free Wi-Fi and cheap office space downtown, build a data center to help startups, reduce taxes for tech companies that relocate and create a tech lab where entrepreneurs can kick around ideas and learn how to run a business.
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His main job at the outset will be helping the Treasury to build an office of financial research, created by the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law to mine market data for threats to financial stability.
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Operators need to offload this new type of data traffic to Wi-Fi networks fast, to relieve the 3G networks as they plan their build-out strategy for even more mobile data use.
Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
This allows the VA to build a knowledge base of each of these injuries that provide doctors and researchers with data-driven information on how to treat a particular condition and also the natural history of conditions that we are now seeing in larger numbers than before.
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But without such information, IT is going to be flying blind when it comes to making huge decisions about whether to adopt SaaS-versions of applications, build new data centers, create private clouds, or use public cloud resources.
Protrade uses raw sports data from Stats, Inc. to build massive play-by-play databases for each of the three major sports.
Regional co-ordinator Colin Bird said the work would aim to build on data gathered by watches last year.
In 2000 Equant approached the state-owned China Netcom and agreed to teach it how to build a national data network for China.
The good news is that it is very easy for these operators to identify where to build out capacity with the cheaper Wi-Fi technology as 70% of the data traffic is going through only 20% of the 3G cells.
EmployInsight is a new company which collects candidate data and offers in-line assessments online, attempting to build up a global skills database.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lead the multi-million dollar project to build a computerised network that will enable experts to track medical data on residents of eight major US cities.
In addition, new ways to explore a mass of public and private data like social media and geospatial databases can enable banks to build non-traditional risk profiles and identify new reliable customers.
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The Mountain View, California has also driven more than 5 million unique miles as part of its five-year quest (called project Ground Truth) to build more accurate maps from its own raw data rather than licensing map content from others, said Brian McClendon, head of Google maps.
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It is spending billions to build a network of data centres, a huge infrastructure to cope with the expected demand for all its software-plus-services business.
The carrier also is spending billions of dollars to build out a next-generation broadband network, using a technology called LTE, that can handle more wireless data traffic.
Platypus LLC build autonomous robotic airboats that can be deployed for a wide range of usages including environmental data and monitoring hard-to-reach spots after natural disasters like flooding.
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In Europe there is movement by the wireless broadband providers to charge the Netflixes of the world for the amount of data they put over the network in order to help operators pay for additional network build-out.
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