The accumulating data led researchers at Zeneca Group, now AstraZeneca, to wonder whether blocking EGF receptors with a drug might slow tumor growth.

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Although we are still at the stage of observing developments and accumulating data concerning the ongoing H1N1 flu outbreak, we've already learned a few important lessons.

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It's about accumulating data to answer a question.

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We, or rather the electronic devices we employ, are data pack rats, accumulating e-mails, Web pages, credit card swipes, phone messages, stock trades, memos, address books and radiology scans.

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And because Pixim's chip is accumulating more data per pixel--14 bits versus 8 bits for a CCD pixel--it generates higher resolutions and truer colors with only 400, 000 pixels on a sensor versus millions in most CCD cameras.

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Other companies are starting to realize the data gold mine they have been accumulating.

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Perhaps this is what happens when a story has been out for a long time (businesses are accumulating a lot more data and need a lot more storage) and when the company generally meets analyst expectations, as opposed to blowing them away.

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Future campaigns will build off this success and spread these tactics to every part of the electoral process, continually accumulating whatever new types of data are available in the future.

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