Emotion UI is also pre-installed with a smartphone housekeeper function to support real-time data traffic tracking, automatic blacklisting and blocking, periodical system cleaning, and spontaneous exiting of idle programs and cache cleanup, in addition to anti-virus, energy saving, privacy protection, software management, and more.

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Data seen by the BBC suggested that the blocking of The Pirate Bay had only had a short-term effect on the level of pirate activity online - with levels of peer-to-peer sharing returning to normal soon after.

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Entrants to the consumer-finance business are soon expected to gain access to valuable data when Terranet, a new industry-run credit bureau, is set up next month (assuming blocking efforts by Takefuji, the industry leader, which claims that it might be illegal to disclose some data, fail).

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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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In addition to data-intensive web applications, Shalom sees applications like fraud detection, 3-D animation, and blocking malicious software as some of the beneficiaries.

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The data's release came as measures to attempt to curb illegal downloading began to take hold, such as the blocking of popular piracy websites and the relegation and removal of search results from Google.

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