The Americans are paying Lloyd's List, a London-based shipping newspaper, for data on shipping movements in the area.
Peterson--an iPhone fan himself--sells shipping data culled from a clutch of government and private databases.
Today, Cisco's biggest wireless customers are retailers who use the company's wireless systems to track shipping data.
The company also partners with UPS, which provides shipping data to Kabbage that the company can use to determine eligibility as well.
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But tracking costs from one work center to another or entering shipping data for hundreds of packages before UPS arrives requires speed and reliability.
Also, with shipping company UPS as an investor, Kabbage could in the future even use shipping data as another metric for companies to show their business success.
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Three shipping containers of swim shorts from Nassa Fashions bound for Kmart, which is owned by Sears, arrived at a Newark port last month, according to U.S. shipping data from online database Import Genius.
More than 15, 000 pairs of women's running shoes from Wing Star and bound for the U.S. operations of Asics arrived at a Los Angeles port in March, according to U.S. shipping data from online database Import Genius.
According to Revere Data, inland waterways shipping companies dropped prices 4.1% over the past three months.
Users of mobile devices are streaming more content, and shipping more data for storage in the cloud.
All other data, such as shipping and billing address and payment information, would then be passed on by PayPal automatically -- leaving you with nothing to do but admire what a beautiful pair of sneakers your precious Mr. Cuddlesworth makes.
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Orbcomm's network of 28 satellites handle short bursts of data from things such as shipping containers and electricity meters, the kind of messages that can wait a few seconds until a satellite is overhead and don't require elaborate software to process.
And with advances in big data, he sees that as a possibility - he compares the management of big data combined with machine learning with the shipping container revolution in transportation.
Yet when scientists studied observable data for the same period, including shipping logs, aerial photos and satellite images, they discovered the actual figure for ice loss from 1953 until 2006 to be 7.8 percent.
Intel is currently shipping its single mode 4G LTE data solution and will begin multimode shipments later in the first half of this year.
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These surveys and other data were used to help map the new shipping lanes by showing vessel owners and federal officials where the whale grounds and shipping lanes were overlapping.
They shared their data of where the whales were and the details of the commercial shipping lanes.
Of course, official announcement or no, customers might be able to take advantage of some turbocharged wireless data in the near term just as soon as that AirCard starts shipping.
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We had a chance to check out the Apple dock connector flavor in March, and now the Kickstarter-backed company is shipping its micro-USB version, supporting power and data transfer with just about any USB-equipped gadget.
There is not just more data, but there are more sources of data from everyday sources and unexpected ones from sensors in automobiles to shipping crates.
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It should also improve security, providing a common data set that gives the authorities electronic access to some 20 documents that describe who is shipping what, whence, whither and to whom.
Current "muxes" typically can push up to 100 light waves down a single fiber, but by year-end Nortel will begin shipping test gear that pushes 160 lightwaves, each carrying 10 billion bits of data per second.
Current "muxes" typically can push up to 100 light waves down a single fiber, but by year-end Nortel will begin shipping test gear that pushes 160 lightwaves, each carrying 10 billion bits of data a second.
It has custom-built a warehouse-shipping app for the iPad using the Sybase Unwired Platform that connects to its SAP-based data.
By eliminating time-consuming printing and faxing, shipping (with potentially lost contracts), rework from missing signatures, errors from re-keying data, and costs of distributing copies to each signer, companies and individuals who use eSignature benefit in a number of concrete, financially significant ways.
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