The hardware module is connected to a smartphone or tablet on which apps can be written to consume and use these data.
It is instead acting as a "trusted data broker" for researchers and examining what spurs people to consume pirated movies or use legal options.
The other critical item here is to involve customers in their natural environment, where they consume your service or use your product (not depending on focus groups, which are artificial and subject to affect contagion) into your development process as early as possible.
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To adapt to Net-inspired changes in the way people use computers and consume software, Microsoft brass last summer announced a wrenching corporate reinvention on a scale few companies have been able to manage successfully before.
Hotels consume massive amounts of energy and use 50% more energy than a similar sized residential building despite having only 55% occupancy rates on average.
Traditionally, and by law, FERC has been bound to set electricity prices according to the production source that customers use and the amount they consume.
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Energy commission head Alfred Ofosu-Ahenkora says the second-hand refrigerators are harming the country as they were not built for use in Africa and so consume too much electricity.
Now, that may not sound too sexy until -- (laughter) -- energy-efficient buildings. (Laughter.) But listen, our homes and our businesses consume 40 percent of the energy we use.
Microwave ovens, cellphone chargers, DVD players, computer monitors and printers all silently consume power when they aren't in use.
The ones with the least efficient operations that emit the most carbon, use the most water, and consume the most electric power?
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Today, our homes and businesses consume 40 percent of the energy that we use, and it costs us billions of dollars in energy bills.
In our nation's buildings -- our homes and our office consume almost 40 percent of the energy we use and contribute almost 40 percent of the carbon pollution that we produce and everybody is talking about right now in Copenhagen.
The more efficient we are in our energy use, the more energy we will use because efficiency makes it cheaper to consume.
Civil servants in the Philippines have been put on a four-day working week, to save the petrol they use while commuting and the power they consume in their offices.
This unique feature enables LFTRs to consume their fuel so thoroughly that they can even use the spent fuel from other reactors, cleaning up our legacy of nuclear waste while producing a minuscule amount of waste themselves.
Consumers can then use Zinio's technology to purchase, consume and organize content ranging from Rolling Stone to Martha Stewart Living to The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook.
On your computer, you can use a service like RescueTime that will count everything you consume.
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Smart phones consume 24 times more data than conventional phones, and tablets can use up to 120 times more bandwidth.
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The poor in rich countries often consume more than they earn, because they receive welfare benefits and use public services.
My hunch is that the presence of wildlife says less about whatever suppliers Solo and its sister restaurants use than the prevalence of insect life in what we routinely consume at restaurants whose hygienic standards aren't as high.
As more people use broadband-connected smartphones and tablets, the amount of data Britons consume on the move each month has hit 20 million gigabytes.
Other large standby drainers include ink jet printers, which can use from three to 20 watts, and mini-stereos, which can consume from one to 25 watts.
Industry and agriculture, which both consume huge amounts of water, have a crucial role to play in controlling this water use that their ultimate clients never see.
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Among the improvements is a new 450, 000 square-foot state-of the-art paint shop that will consume dramatically less energy and water, resulting in an estimated 50 percent reduction in energy use per vehicle, GM said.
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And his argument regarding the hypocrisy of food lovers not bothering to consume the remainder of the goose despite using their fat is akin to blaming consumers who use beef dripping for not purchasing the rest of the cow as well.
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RLX's servers use just 15 watts of power instead of the 170 watts most rack-mounted servers consume.
By providing equal access to food, limiting our exposure to chemicals and eliminating antibiotic use in livestock, they are changing not only how food is grown, but who gets to consume nutritious meals.
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Whereas home-owners in Los Angeles and San Francisco must carefully watch how much water they consume if they want to avoid a stiff surcharge, Sacramento's people have no limit on the amounts they use to wash their cars, fill their swimming-pools and keep their lawns lushly green.
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