Big east-coast firms such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Data General were self-contained empires that focused on one product, mini-computers.
Mr. Brown said that the vast majority of Dataium's business involves providing general data about online car-shopping trends.
They argue that starting with Digital Equipment Corporation 50 years ago, this area has spawned more enterprise-focused companies such as Data General, EMC (EMC), Endeca, and others that are a source of valuable talent.
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Rte 128 had DEC, Data General and Wang, giant self-contained corporations that did everything from etching the silicon to building the boxes to writing the applications code.
At the same time, mobile operators urgently need a Wi-Fi strategy to cater to the explosive growth of Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones, tablets and mobile data devices in general.
Unfortunately for most health insurance companies other than Aetna, their behavior is reminiscent of DEC, Data General, Wang and a host of once-successful computer makers that are in the dustbin of history.
Venables: Where, given the fact that you are encouraging more data-driven, informative decisions by policy makers and having the general public be better informed by looking at better research, what should we talk about in the national debate about media influence on violence?
The graveyard of once-high-flying stocks includes Digital Equipment, Apollo Computer, Data General and Silicon Graphics (now SGI).
In another ongoing case, Ponemon founder Larry Ponemon says he is consulting with a major financial institution currently being investigated by several states' attorneys general in a major data breach attributed to an e-mail marketing partner.
Although the study doesn't include data after 2002, the rates of binge drinking -- and drinking in general -- may be even higher now.
Sure, there were impressive competitors, including HP, Data General , and even mighty IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people), but DEC was the defining force in the field.
Kroll's software had to synch not only with banks' mainframes but also with programs run by intermediaries--such as Harland Financial Services and FIS--that track deposit and loan data and integrate them with banks' general ledgers.
Children's heart surgery is set to restart at Leeds General Infirmary, a week after it was claimed data showed higher-than-usual death rates there.
"With mobile downloads for BBC iPlayer, you can now load up your mobile phone or tablet with hours and hours of BBC television programmes, then watch them on the road, on the Tube, on a plane, without worrying about having an internet connection or running up a mobile data bill, " said Daniel Danker, general manager of programmes and on-demand for the BBC.
It handles video, voice, data, DVD and 3-D gaming, a feat that set-top leader General Instrument has yet to pull off.
Six years ago, radiologist Michael Zalis found himself spending a lot of time logging in and out of separate electronic health records at Massachusetts General Hospital to gather lab data, clinical notes, and other non-imaging information scattered in multiple databases.
"T-Mobile has been an important source of competition among the national carriers, including through innovation and quality enhancements such as the roll-out of the first nationwide high-speed data network, " said Sharis A. Pozen, Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.
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"For the energy and space efficiency that the mega-data centres require ARM processors are always the best approach, " Suresh Gopalakrishnan, general manager of AMD's server division, told the BBC.
In June, Eliot Spitzer, New York's business-bashing attorney-general, launched a lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for allegedly suppressing data that linked one of its antidepressants to heightened suicide risks for children.
The NRF results are in line with data released by the U.S. Commerce Department that shows total retail sales (which include non-general merchandise categories such as autos, gasoline stations and restaurants) increased 0.1 percent seasonally adjusted month-to-month and 9 percent unadjusted year-over-year.
The report noted a strong quarterly dividend history at General Electric Co, and favorable long-term multi-year growth rates in key fundamental data points.
The factor builder returns the answer that trend-following has not been particularly efficient when cross applied to FX assets in general (though you can data mine to make it look good as most technical analysis books do).
Meanwhile, January retail sales data, released by the U.S. Department of Commerce, showed total retail sales (which include non-general merchandise categories such as autos, gasoline stations and restaurants) increased 5.6 percent unadjusted year-over-year and 0.4 percent seasonally adjusted month-to-month.
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