That investment created an ultra-fast information superhighway, says Blair Levin, a media analyst at Stifel Nicolaus.
Just look at how fast information technology departments swung to servers connecting to PCs, shutting down mainframe and mini-computer data centers and wiping out thousands of green-screen terminals.
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The idea is to get relevant information fast, instead of what usually happens, which is getting information long after a crisis is over, said Robert Kirkpatrick, director of Global Pulse, who spoke today at a technology and human rights conference in Berkeley, Calif.
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Bell says he's seen a real increase in productivity from having fast access to information.
Knowledge workers want fast access to information where they want it and when they want it.
The social-media tools available to small-business owners are proliferating as fast as the information that flows through them.
And that's exactly why it's so important for us to respond big and respond fast as local information starts coming in.
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The company was fast to post information on its website about the floods, and communicated to investors about the size and scale of the disaster.
While it may take awhile for news reports in your native language to surface, Twitter can give you fast, reliable information in case of an emergency.
With customers doing their own ordering and billing through the Internet, databases must be able to handle vast numbers of concurrent users and provide information fast.
For emerging economies and developing countries, wireless broadband looks likely to be the platform of choice, bringing services like micro-banking, telemedicine and fast sharing of information in local languages to communities, no matter how isolated.
"The Motorola ELECTRIFY M is a great choice for customers who want a smartphone that gives them fast access to information and entertainment and can also help them stay organized, " said Edward Perez, vice president of sales and marketing operations for U.S. Cellular.
And do remember one other thing: information could only flow as fast as a man could travel so information was both hugely limited and hugely expensive itself.
It means investing in transportation and communications networks that move goods and information as fast as possible.
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The staggering, and fast-growing, information-crunching capabilities of data-mining technology broaden the definition of what is considered suspicious.
It means investing in transportation and communication networks that can move goods and information as fast as possible.
So how can a big business cloud adopter assure its customers are getting their information as fast or faster than the competition?
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We also need to make sure that America can move goods and information as fast as any of our competitors, whether on the road or online.
Ultimately, businesses that adapt to the volatility of fuel prices and take advantage of the fast flow of market information are able to gain an advantage.
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Providing mobile users with fast and accurate location information while preserving their security and privacy has raised some very complex technical issues which are hard to communicate in a soundbite.
We can even make the argument that HFT just made everyone realise that problem faster: and yes, we do want markets to reveal such information as fast as they can.
MasterCard has become a fast and reliable source for information on how the holiday shopping season went.
It is too much information, too fast, and there is too much chaff intermixed with the wheat.
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Its format mandates conciseness, and conciseness tends to be a good thing when broadcasting information about a fast-moving story.
Engineers built spam filters and faster crawling and indexing to present information almost as fast as it was created.
People are bound to get in an uproar over this, largely thanks to how fast social media spreads controversial information.
Workers need retraining for new industries, notably fast-growing ones like information technology.
In return for sharing all this personal information passengers are fast-tracked through immigration at Dubai and Hong Kong and on their return to Britain.
The recorders capture information about how fast you were going and whether you slammed on the brakes in the seconds before and after a crash.
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