By midyear Philips' data centers will be able to "sell" printing, computing and file management services to employees.

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So while at LaGuardia airport this morning I am examining my boarding pass and all the data it contains and realize that Delta is still printing the entire frequent flier number on the document.

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Now, you may think we are being too hard on Bernanke and Trichet, that they will someday cease their money printing exploits, when as they say the economic data permits.

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Five of these, including projects at the Veteran Health Administration and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, have been nominated for the 2012 Government Big Data Solutions Award.

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According to a December 2011 IDC survey she helped oversee, only 22% of organizations said that getting data and docs on their smartphone decreased the amount of pages they were printing. 43% said their print needs stayed the same, while 10% said they actually went up.

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That meant selling information to virtually anyone--inventory-tracking data to car dealers, load-matching service to truckers, coupon-printing kiosks to grocery stores and fire-alert information to forestry services.

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