That forced Sears, Roebuck to itself send out Discover Cards to 22 million Sears cardholders, field thousands of salesmen to sign up retailers and install new data lines and payment gear at each point of sale.
Some trading firms measure their competitiveness by the speed in which they can connect to financial exchanges and complete transactions, and even at the speed of light that data travels along the glass of fiber optic lines, locating even a few miles closer to the exchange could provide an edge.
Not only did it make it easier, and cheaper, to use telephone lines it helped speed up the passing of data.
After the leadership of a business agrees that making better use of data will be a huge benefit, the CIO and interested heads of lines of business get together to make a plan.
The department and the media firms reached a compromise that let the firms continue using their own computers and data lines to ensure fast delivery of economic news but let the Labor Department control access to the computers and supervise maintenance of the equipment.
For the main arteries of its network, SpeedNet will use 64, 000-kilometres of Tepco's high-speed data links, which are strung along the streets and railway lines of greater Tokyo, sharing poles and conduits with its electricity cables.
He says he left Iowa because of the higher cost of high-speed data-transmission lines, too few firms like his own, and too little for 20-somethings like himself to do at weekends.
Veritas, a maker of well-regarded data storage software, now commonly sells products with 500, 000 to 1 million lines of code.
The records consist of safety and inspection data about private bus lines, school buses and tour bus operators.
Instead, high-speed wireless access services can leapfrog the fiber lines directly to your computer and provide even higher rates of data transmission-- over the same CDMA network that's already in place to route cell phone traffic.
The brief story is that a professor and a salesman launched a company based on a discovery of a better way to send data over phone lines.
Power lines are extremely hostile places for data signals, with high levels of electronic noise and an obstacle course of transformers, surge arrestors and splices that create a huge impedance to the free flow of high-frequency signals.
By assembling enough data points of actions, they can start to approximate the curved lines that are human beings.
Its best-known customer (and majority-owner) is Tesco, a British supermarket with a Clubcard loyalty-card scheme that generates a mind-numbing flow of data on the purchases of 13m members across 55, 000 product lines.
Scot Gnau, chief technology officer at Teradata, said a data warehouse and good analytics can deliver information to people on the front lines of customer service and sales so they can make good decisions without giving away the store.
The relationship between the two is represented by the straight lines estimated to give the best fits between the data before and after social welfare spending reaches 10% of personal income.
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It also collects individual solar panel performance data through power lines and sells a service to owners that allows them to keep tabs on the performance of their system.
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