In 1999 former Micron executive Tyler Lowry formed a joint venture with ECD called Ovonyx to make memory that, like flash, doesn't lose data when it loses power.
"The end result is the same: You caused me to lose my data, " he says.
Companies frequently face data breaches when employees lose laptops and disks, but sharing and storing company documents on third-party cloud services carry their own risks, including phishing attacks.
Regarding the longevity of storage media many of the products that we use today, hard disk drives, flash memory, optical discs and magnetic tape will react with the ambient environment and gradually lose the data stored on them or disintegrate over time.
Support for "persistent memory, " which means that you won't lose all your data when your battery dies (a feature the Treo 650 and several other Palms already have).
Now with security and huge improvements in speed we are back to mainframes, but in a much different level of technology with VPNs and so on for security as people put on data on sticks unencrypted and lose it all the time.
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But with some simple changes that were based on gathering data, he was able to lose about 90 pounds of fat, and gain between 20 and 30 pounds of muscle at age 65.
The pound has been weakening this year following some disappointing economic data and worries that the UK may lose its triple-A credit rating.
Apparently his data indicate that he will win or lose the election depending on how a few key districts in swing states vote.
There are two kinds of computer owners: those that backup their data, and those who will backup after they lose something irreplaceable.
Mobile carriers, too, could lose a substantial portion of their revenue, particularly future wireless data revenue, to Wi-Fi networks.
Based on data from between 2003 and 2009 it shows that our top pupils actually lose ground as they get older, not just with their peers in the Far East, but with those in every country studied.
But it is difficult to inspire Bureau of Labor Statistics employees, for example, to rally around the fact that under sequestration they won't likely lose their jobs, but they might have to stop collecting data on one specific type of job loss.
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Every year as many as 150, 000 divorced parents in Japan lose contact with their children, according to estimates gleaned from official data.
Banks can use big data to gain a 360-degree view of customers, even as they lose the personal interaction of branch banking.
"Many perfectly legal things that could be done with data aren't being done, because people don't want to lose their jobs, " says a computer security entrepreneur who, like many interviewed for this article, was too fearful of the advocates to let his name appear.
Merck has not done much so far to open its trial data to the world, nor have its rivals, but Merck has less to lose here and more to gain.
Ultimately, those who make public policy should do so in the knowledge not that the data says something is expedient, but that the voter has the power to say that they lose their job.
Raj Singh, a former investment banker who recently became chief risk officer of Swiss Re, points out that the banks' risk models, which try to put a value on how much they should realistically expect to lose in the 99% of the time that passes for normality, draw on reams of historical data.
Some think this implies that Nokia will lose market share on the low-end segment and erode its handset sales though we have not seen data to support this.
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