The new iOS 4.3.3 alters how the iPhone and the 3G iPad devices store and back up a built-in location database cache.
According to the release notes, iOS 4.3.3 reduces the size of the location database cache, stops backing the cache up to iTunes when you connect your device to a computer, and deletes the cache entirely when you turn Location Services off.
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Updates posted on the Orchard's database are pushed from a single location to social media and other websites.
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They also created words for each mapped location, using a database of syllables.
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The Magellan SmartGPS communicates with Magellan's custom-built Smart Ecosystem, a cloud platform for an extensive database of constantly-updating, location-relevant social media and navigation content that is automatically pushed to the SmartGPS display to create a uniquely-rich driving experience.
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The plastic dongle plugs in-between an outlet and a device, and leverages a database of electricity prices based on location and time of day to calculate how much an appliance drains from your wallet per hour, day, week, month and year.
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Aequitas is a database of wages sorted by job, location, age and ethnicity.
More visitors to data mine and a great way to add location tagging to their ever increasing database.
Earlier this year Keiser put out a bullish report on location technologies: mapp Close ing database firms TeleAtlas and Navteq, dashboard navigation device makers such as TomTom and Garmin, and global positioning system chip firms like Sirf Technology Holdings.
Earlier this year Keiser put out a bullish report on location technologies: mapp Close ing database firms TeleAtlas and Navteq (nyse: NVT - news - people ), dashboard navigation device makers such as TomTom and Garmin (nasdaq: GRMN - news - people ), and global positioning system chip firms like Sirf Technology Holdings.
Another Thomas brainchild: a wireless gadget that can sense its physical location, match it to a geographic database defining the various frequencies in use and then adjust its transmissions to avoid interference.
The device will contact the Spectrum Bridge database to identify channels that are available for operation at its location and can provide high-speed Internet connectivity.
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Green Library, on the campus of Stanford University, and collects at least a thousand books, which are taken to an undisclosed location and scanned, page by page, into an enormous database being created by Google.
It also requires remote access from a console installed in FSB headquarters which reports the names of the sender and receiver of the targeted phone call, e-mail, or SMS message, the message itself, and the geo-location of the sender as well as access to the customer database and billing records.
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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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