This week, it launched their BigDataEdge product line, a solution used to analyze large chunks of data.

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That's the trick performed by holographic disk drives, which record a series of 1-million-bit chunks of data as holographic "pages" inside a light-sensitive plastic medium.

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Bizarrely, in terms of basic business tools, the iPhone still lacks a simple way of cutting-and-pasting chunks of data from one software application to another.

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Then, when there are questions that need answers, that is the time to organize and sift through the chunks of data that will provide those answers.

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They would farm the task out to thousands of owners of personal computers by sending them chunks of data from radio telescopes, along with the software needed to look for intelligent signals.

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Since the statistics are recorded by each police authority areas, we decided to use this as a basis for loading up small chunks of the data at any one time.

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Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.

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The most striking--and downright shocking--data are the disparities in the relative chunks of income that go toward food and drink.

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The 4G auction will sell chunks of radio spectrum to support future mobile services, which will allow users to download data such as music and videos at much faster speeds.

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Ken Silva, the security chief at VeriSign, which runs big chunks of the internet's domain-name system, advocates defences at the core of the network to tackle malicious data-packets before they reach their target.

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