This meant CloudFlare could avoid filling up data centers with cabinets of hard drives.

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The screens provide just enough info without filling the display with to much data.

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Projections now (once again) have us filling the oceanic cables up with data within the next five or so years, and for the global carriers of Internet traffic, the demand growth is finally rising fast enough to make up for their annual price declines.

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The tasks, reminders, and other elements that hang off of Salesforce data objects also help when filling whitespace.

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The company wanted to create a database archive for its operational data systems as it was filling up its storage capacity.

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The app doesn't seem to eat up much space (it occupies 4MB on the device), so it appears to be pulling map data OTA. That's a good thing if you're worried about filling up your G1, but bad if you need info quickly or you're not in a data-gettin' spot.

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Smarr is filling a nature reserve at UC Irvine with sensors to transmit environmental data to San Diego supercomputers, which are modeling weather patterns, seismic activity and behavior of animal populations.

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Still, the applications exist, the wireless data networks are getting faster, and increased adoption means that the Bluetooth ecosystem is on the cusp of filling in its long-vacant hub.

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