Example: For a decade now America's large telcos have yawned and dithered on supplying high-speed data lines to homes.
The deal gives Nextlink a toehold in Europe, high-speed data lines, web-hosting and e-commerce services and the right to haul traffic for Internet service providers.
That forced Sears, Roebuck to itself send out Discover Cards to 22 million Sears cardholders, field thousands of salesmen to sign up retailers and install new data lines and payment gear at each point of sale.
The department and the media firms reached a compromise that let the firms continue using their own computers and data lines to ensure fast delivery of economic news but let the Labor Department control access to the computers and supervise maintenance of the equipment.
All the classic signs are there: you can eat buffet dinners all 52 weeks a year at Big Data conferences, Big Data tag lines are now common in emails from industry analysts, and even investment bankers are tossing around the phrase.
It was early to market with the telecom switches, routers and multiplexers that handle data over phone lines.
They could ask questions across geographies or query the data across business lines.
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The brief story is that a professor and a salesman launched a company based on a discovery of a better way to send data over phone lines.
It also collects individual solar panel performance data through power lines and sells a service to owners that allows them to keep tabs on the performance of their system.
He says he left Iowa because of the higher cost of high-speed data-transmission lines, too few firms like his own, and too little for 20-somethings like himself to do at weekends.
The records consist of safety and inspection data about private bus lines, school buses and tour bus operators.
Our preliminary look at the field trial data suggests that the lines around the autism spectrum disorders will not be significantly redrawn with DSM-5.
Main.net's system skips the high-voltage lines, injecting data into the grid further downstream, on medium-voltage (4, 000 to 25, 000 volts) lines.
Having your identity pegged to communication creates more data to manage and some blurry lines.
He hints that Europe might adopt a more flexible regulatory stance if America were to create what amounts to an independent data-protection body along European lines.
The fastest backbones in use today are OC-12 lines, which transmit data at 622 mbps, but Sprint recently announced plans to upgrade to OC-48 -- 2.5 gigabits per second.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that runs the facility has for a decade been fitting it with state-of-the-art digital electronics, a new central computer, and high-speed transmission lines to carry the data that the 25m, 200-tonne dishes gather.
The public transport data features railways, tram and bus lines, stops, stations and access points.
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Although he was successful in getting the Egyptian carriers to cooperate, some Egyptians still managed to get online by making international data calls from old-fashioned telephone modem lines.
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Power lines are extremely hostile places for data signals, with high levels of electronic noise and an obstacle course of transformers, surge arrestors and splices that create a huge impedance to the free flow of high-frequency signals.
Some trading firms measure their competitiveness by the speed in which they can connect to financial exchanges and complete transactions, and even at the speed of light that data travels along the glass of fiber optic lines, locating even a few miles closer to the exchange could provide an edge.
That had not been observed before with the leveling data, because they didn't run leveling lines on the levees.
Forbes pulled its data from a study by moving company United Van Lines, which analyzed customer moves across the 48 continental states in 2012.
Smaller rural agencies can also access the data to maintain assets in the field like water lines, fire hydrants, trails, vegetation, wildfire mitigation areas, and more.
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Listen to it carefully, understand what is said between the lines, match that to what the data says, and one can pretty much anticipate what is coming for a quarter.
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"Ericsson believes that by 2005 more data will be transmitted through wireless technologies than through fixed lines, " Niebert said.
Not only did it make it easier, and cheaper, to use telephone lines it helped speed up the passing of data.
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