Had it used commercial data, it would have given intelligence agencies instantaneous access to a volume of information about the public that had previously only been available through slower physical searches.
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But when Krieger noticed that a photo he snapped of the bar menu has yet to receive any likes (with 177, 000 followers, the response is usually instantaneous), a MacBook Air, a Verizon Hotspot and a pile of iPhones materialize among the glasses of cask-finished bourbon.
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To many it seemed like a small adjustment, but in reality, it will mean a near instantaneous financial windfall for players in the NFL. When the new CBA for the league was reached there was a change in how revenues would be split between the owners and players.
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In a society dominated by smart phones, iPads, social media and digital video recorders, sports information is instantaneous and delivered in a concise package.
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IP-based networks cannot guarantee instantaneous communication, so a substantial amount of buffering (several seconds) was used to smooth out any hiccups.
It provides a nearly instantaneous stream of information to journalists, Web site visitors, pundits and more than 1, 000 bloggers watching and commenting on the debates.
This is a grand ambition, and there is a lot of work to getting all that information available, perfectly cleaned and structured, on a nearly instantaneous basis through our API.
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This is not an uncommon scenario, especially in a culture of instantaneous communication.
Real-time bidding will also emerge to become the dominant way to buy mobile media, which involves using a programmatic, instantaneous auction.
His company, which once relied on large databases, has bet instead on smaller, distributed databases that can maintain instantaneous, wireless connections to a company.
But for the most part, Americans of every age and stage are wrapping themselves in apps, clicks and instantaneous communication as part of a social network.
You also have instantaneous access to any point in a recording--no rewind or fast-forward delays.
Between 2004 and 2005, 14 percent of the Arctic Ocean's perennial ice disappeared - some 720, 000 square kilometers (447, 000 square miles) -- a depletion Lynas calls "instantaneous" in geological terms.
It turns out that becoming a comedian is an act of instantaneous self-creation.
Mind you, the transition won't be instantaneous as anyone with an N900 (and a clear mind) can attest -- the OS, services, and apps just can't compare to the mature S60 platform regardless of Maemo 5's superior user experience.
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Yes, intellectual property rights have become a sensitive issue in the age of instantaneous digital distribution, and rightly so.
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The battle style in this game is different from traditional RPGs and action games where the battles are not instantaneous, but rather extensive and you fight for a longer period of time.
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Regular activations shouldn't take more than an hour or two (ours were basically instantaneous) and ports from other carriers should take a maximum of 48 hours, but some unlucky individuals are still waiting to come online.
It was a new way to really engage with the community -- and even with new fans -- in a way that was more immediate and more instantaneous.
Responsiveness within a flock of starlings is fast, but not in fact instantaneous.
Because a breath test is non-invasive and the results are instantaneous, it could prove even more convenient for example in anaesthesia or doping tests.
GlobalTV, a new product for international cable and satellite TV operators, allows near-instantaneous translation of English-language programming, said Larry Silverman, the company's chief executive officer, in an interview with IDG News Service Wednesday.
And with Live answer, Sharp's experts are available to customers through a dedicated line, 1-87-SEE-AQUOS, and can provide instantaneous, remote access to representatives.
Who has the time, and what is the benefit, of planning in a world of continuous change, demand-driven marketing, and intense pressure for instantaneous responses?
It is a brilliant system from an operational perspective, but relies on inexpensive oil as well as instantaneous communications.
When I wrote a column some months ago that Apple could be the next Polaroid, the response was instantaneous and huge.
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Instantaneous access to information, as well as quality tools and analytics, once available only to professionals, are a few clicks away.
Watson suggested in a brief conversation that their first use may be in providing highly valuable regulation services (requiring near instantaneous ramp up and ramp down that balance the grid within short timeframes).
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Because its collapse is directly tied to the European economic crisis, MF Global is a direct reminder to already jittery investors that foreign entanglements expose all of us to unforeseeable, often instantaneous risk.
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The application not only provides instantaneous updates on data that can eventually be discerned from the games final box score, but also creates insights using a combination of player and situation statistics that would otherwise never be available from traditional real-time communication channels.
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