The Mariner Outreach System is a government database of mariners who are willing to help in the event of a national crisis.

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M2M solutions use sensors to capture information or an event and then relay that information through a network to an application or database.

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Notably not in attendance (or at least, not visible at the event) were location service startups Foursquare and Gowalla, much of whose value lies in the rich database of check-ins they are sitting on.

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