Owning or creating easy access to social networking data enables Apple and Google to connect location with other data about you.
"We also publish specific advice about the data protection issues that schools need to be aware of when collecting and processing personal data about pupils and other individuals, " he added.
Increasingly, what we do on the Internet is being combined with other data about us.
Google Glass is proving a controversial technology because of its potential to gather images, video and other data about almost anything a user sees.
That would let the search giant throw ads or other data about the product your way, giving you the info you need to snap it up -- and likely not hurting Google's bottom line.
The app relies on a combination of collaborative filtering and the parsing of data about the ingredients, cooking methods and other variables that comprise a dish into linked and relational data.
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However, the models were inaccurate because they did not include other known data about the customer, and they could not see the holistic customer interaction pattern over time, he explained.
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"Ebay is run by smart people who don't use Ebay and spend hours debating the data about how other people use Ebay, " says a former strategist who left a few months ago.
The discoveries are the latest from an avalanche of new data about worlds around other stars.
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It's about incentivizing, collecting data from other bookstores.
LinkedIn spokesman Hani Durzy reiterated that the current law doesn't require the company to provide information about data shared for purposes other than direct marketing, and said that the company is "keeping an eye on" the new bill, but hasn't taken a position on it.
For Syngenta, the journal made an exception, because the company was concerned about other firms exploiting its data.
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As a national health service it contains more data about health than any other comparable health system in the world.
It also collects data about operational failures in other banks and industries, and screens them for relevance to the bank's own operations.
Nor is there enough data about the economic impact of other diseases to make real comparisons.
This vast set of data held other intriguing clues about the animals.
All of these efforts highlight the fact that the Internet provides marketers with far more data about consumer behavior than any other medium.
Investors who are concerned about the current state of the market, with the recent poor housing data and fears of inflation among other things, can be nervous about the correlations between asset classes.
In many companies, marketing departments are leading the rush to adopt big data technologies, eager to uncover new insights about customers and prospects in the mountains of web-related and other data they have accumulated.
Privacy groups are concerned about how the data collected by Google - and other web firms - could be used to monitor people's online habits.
It's not just about upping the data rate, though, as other challenges include keeping that signal good through conditions your ISP (thankfully) won't normally have to consider, such as pin-point accuracy over 238, 900 miles while moving through space.
In their book Messrs Bell and Gemmell predict that people with chronic ailments will one day have sensors embedded directly in their bodies that can transmit data about their vital signs wirelessly to other devices such as their phones.
They were joined by many other companies, from a variety of industries, all with the need to analyze data they have collected about the behavior and attitudes of their customers or any other relevant constituency.
Then the specialized software spent about 30 seconds turning the raw data in to useable measurements for inseam, waist, chest and just about any other body part that could be of import to a tailor.
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The officials also agreed to provide documents and other data to U.S. regulators about the fund's ties to Goldman, these people said.
Nokia added that no credit card details were accessed, although about 7% of the compromised records included data for other web accounts like Skype.
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It is meaningless to say that something can cause cancer without extensive baseline data about dosage, proximity, exposure and other factors that fracturing opponents never discuss.
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One company offers a mobile app that uses freely available Federal data about health care facilities, along with other information, to connect patients to local health care providers.
As an alternative, Dr. Gigerenzer and his colleagues came up with a "fast-and-frugal" tree that asked the doctors just three sequential yes-no questions about each patient's electrocardiographs and other data.
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