Windows 8 offers lots of ways to get information into the system.

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BlackBerry has created an apparently seamless system that allows you to get relevant information on people in your calendar.

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The new system uses sleeker, easier technology to access and share information, and in theory, get details to the appropriate responder faster.

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Alliance Tech's founders, Roger Lewis, 48, Timothy Blackwood, 46, and Arturo Borrego, 44, get lots of questions about invasion of privacy but insist that their system avoids snooping by storing any personal information in a separate database.

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"It's now time to draw a line under 2008 and get on with the important job of making sure our assessment system is the best it can possibly be, so that both pupils and parents can continue to get the information that we know they value, " he said.

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