But will cultivating a healthy preoccupation with data pay dividends for your business?
T-Mobile may be planning to throw a data pay-per-use feature onto any smartphone that currently has its internet access blocked.
Carriers fully expect people to use more data and pay more for it.
XpertHR Salary Surveys, powered by CELRE research, provide detailed pay data used by employers in reviewing and setting pay levels.
Users who go over their monthly data allotment will pay an additional fee based on their existing data plan.
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Data on competitive pay practices has essentially become a commodity, with size and industry-specific data being accessible to most consultants, not to mention the fact that a tremendous amount of data can be gleaned from proxy reports.
Since most Indian consumers pay for cellular and mobile data service on a pay-as-you-go basis, Peeks there will be offered on a prepaid basis, as well as by monthly subscription.
Picture quality will likely be sacrificed at first to keep the data downloads smaller (customers will pay by the data packet, rather than the minute).
Linking pico phones to 4G and video transforms pico phones into a sales tool for carriers to sell data packages to consumers or to nudge people who already pay for data to purchase higher-capacity plans.
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Estimated basic pay data may be used for the month of September if actual figures are not available timely.
Effective September 30, 2002, actual basic pay data will be used to calculate the future liability for employment related benefits.
Of course, only the politically motivated data mining will pay off before November, as the criminal probe will likely extend into 2013.
However, the net pay data indicates that the number would be substantial.
The ONS also released pay data showing that average earnings increased by 1.8% in the year to August, 0.1% up on the previous month.
The plans speak to the wireless industry's zeal to improve Internet access on cellphones and increase the lucrative data charges consumers pay for such service.
The report provides analysis by industry and geographic region as well as data on premium pay, stock ownership guidelines, perquisites and benefits, and board composition and structure.
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These decisions, if caught in audits or as a result of individuals sharing pay data, can lead to lawsuits that prove to be very problematic for organizations.
The Corporate Library has built up a wealth of data on executive pay and contracts, and a database of the myriad ways in which directors are connected, rather than independent.
In the end, it is how the pay data is analyzed, interpreted, and used for decision-support, rather than access to the data itself, that has become a key issue in providing high quality, independent advice.
Amazon's Web Services, which pipe applications, processing and storage over the Internet, may eventually let companies escape the confines of their data centers and pay for cheap, scalable processing and storage as easily as they pay for water or electricity.
Plus, as the only network to offer all-you-can-eat data on both Pay as you go and Pay monthly, Three customers can enjoy all of the rich content that YouTube, BBC iPlayer and Spotify have to offer without ever having to worry about data limits.
Amazon's (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) Web Services, which pipe applications, processing and storage over the Internet, may eventually let companies escape the confines of their data centers and pay for cheap, scalable processing and storage as easily as they pay for water or electricity.
Customers can download a free version of Widality's program, but if they like the tool and want to purchase the premium version, which has added features, they have to first uninstall the free program, download the premium version from a website, reload their data, and pay through a PayPal account a complicated, time-consuming process that few people make it through.
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And it features what is called mobile Internet protocol (IP), a packet data service that requires users to pay only for the amount of data they send and receive rather than for the amount of time spent on line.
Nevertheless, it announced then that it would suspend its data caps and start testing a new system that would allow heavy users to pay for more data.
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Those who pay for data packages (which are not unlimited) are never throttled.
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And he would have data that advertisers would pay through the nose for.
The company not only stands to win new subscribers, but also to increase the percentage of its customers who pay for data service each month.
Pay-as-you-go allows customers to pay for data access on the Sprint 3G and 4G networks by the day, week or month with no long-term contract.
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Another had dozens of pages of pay stub data with social security numbers, and a third had 300 pages of medical records from insurer Affinity Health Plan with names and specific diagnoses.
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