T-Mobile may be planning to throw a data pay-per-use feature onto any smartphone that currently has its internet access blocked.

ENGADGET: Mobile Miscellany: week of August 22, 2011 Mobile

Users can also submit planning data in a bi-directional way for any data platform we support including SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Teradata.

FORBES: arcplan Makes Chaos Comprehensible

Qwest is planning a go-slow approach to data, since it is still building a voice wireless business in additional markets.

FORBES: Third (de)generation

As we left it, CRM eventually went from enabling a team of people across a company to document, interact and share their knowledge about each customer, to essentially favor data collection about customers to find common cross-customer issues and forecast planning.

FORBES: Bringing back the 'R' in Customer Relationship Management

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has assembled an expert analytics team in his Office of Policy and Strategic Planning to lead the City into this new era of data-centered innovation.

WHITEHOUSE: Efficiency through Strategic Data Analysis

The latest thing in business-planning simulation, says Mr Bean, is to link real data (inventories, sales figures and so on) into the simulation.

ECONOMIST: Serious games

Follow-up studies now in the planning stage are expected to use prospective as well as retrospective data.

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White space technology will be one way of meeting the growing demand for data in the UK. Ofcom is separately planning to free up more spectrum in the future for the next generation of high-speed data services, already dubbed '5G'.

ENGADGET: UK regulator wants white space wireless service in 2014, starts trials this fall

In case you think WNYC is spending your hard-earned contributions on a subject that flirts with frivolity and you're considering unincluding them in your estate planning, they assured me that this project was pushed into the New Year by more important data-mining efforts, on subjects such as superstorm Sandy and the recent presidential election.

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