The first, of course, is towards mobile, in which people increasingly want their video to be sent to phones and tablets as part of a data-rich stream of content.
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As some members of the Supreme Court recognized last year when they considered the use of only a single stream of data -- GPS location -- creating a life stream of data points paints a mosaic picture of a person's actions and habits.
This 6-megapixel data stream oversamples the target image by 3x resulting in video as sharp as that of the high-end multi-sensor video cameras used in television studios.
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Digital systems, which process pixels one at a time, have to translate the two-dimensional image into a one-dimensional stream of data.
And since the early 90s they have installed specialist buoys, tethered to the seabed, which use sonar to provide a near-constant stream of data about the ice above.
Jackson and fellow researcher Larry Pesce plan to release two tools, affectionately named Reaper and Stalker, that use Perl scripts to harvest data from the stream of location-tagged photos that are continuously posted via Twitter on services like Twitpic, YFrog, the more risque SexyPeek.
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Advertisers, the folks who pay for those shows, are actually paying the most attention to a little-known third stream of data knows as C3.
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Verizon smartphones with a high-speed 4G LTE data plan can stream the games through the NFL Mobile app for free, a spokeswoman for the carrier said.
The data keeps coming too, and the Library of Congress has access to the Twitter stream via Gnip for both real-time and historical tweet data.
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The HD video feed starts out as a 1.5 Gbps data stream (about 1, 000 T-1 links).
In addition, the device has the ability to measure, record and stream back in real-time data to flight controllers on Earth, giving doctors better insight into the crew's exercise.
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Most neighbouring pixels are no longer neighbours in such a data stream, so comparing them is a long-winded business, since the processor has to hunt down the relevant information before it starts.
They pore over statistical data, stream games on their computers and watch games involving lesser-known teams whenever they can.
Assuming that all drivers who own smartphones have enabled data-sharing, all those endpoints drifting around in traffic are sending a stream of coordinates to a central database in real time.
But one emerging data stream that has left brands flying blind is that of the user-generated photo.
He points out that Apple would be an especially deadly partner in the radio race because it has already stored ample listening data from its music-recommendation engine that could power a Pandora-like radio stream.
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The best of them deliver lively performance and offer upscale amenities like heated leather seats and high-end audio systems that can integrate with smartphones to stream music and data from the Internet.
For instance, it may be perfectly ok to correlate location and time-of-day information, but it will be deemed unacceptable if a third stream of user context data is introduced.
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The LG V300 also includes full support for Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) to enable sharing of data between devices as well as Intel's Wireless Display, also known as 'Wi-Di' to wirelessly stream content to a TV.
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Other major themes at the show, judging from pre-CTIA email pitches, include cloud-based services that will store media and stream it to multiple devices, mobile video editing tools, easy ways to monitor data usage and ever-smaller cellular base stations.
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