These companies sort details of online and offline purchases to help categorize people as runners or hikers, dieters or couch potatoes.

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The researchers began by asking the children to categorize unambiguously white, black or Asian faces.

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The program can manage a database of well over 5, 000 songs, and can categorize them according to artist, record, or genre.

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First up, you can now automatically categorize incoming mail as newsletters, and then either trash 'em or sweep them to a folder.

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You can categorize people according to their job search role: Interviews, Opportunities, Referrals or just People You Know.

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Another new feature of SYNC will help drivers' personalize and categorize their favorite media topics, such as sports, weather and news using voice commands or through www.syncmyride.com.

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