Back in the day we were asking our PCs to do the heavy lifting of running those resource intensive client-server applications that required lots of memory, local hard drive space and processing power.
Instead of loading into an armored car, I secured a local taxi to drive into the city.
Emerging markets will expose Samsung to intense competition from local manufacturers and drive down pricing levels in the long run.
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All of my databases were backed up not only by an online service but to a local external hard drive.
This stress needs to be addressed before jobs can be created on Main Street USA as housing and construction drive local economies.
Now a further 20 towns, cities and regions are being invited to set out the powers they need to drive local growth.
Only half of the money spent locally is raised locally, robbing our cities and regions of both the power and incentives to drive local growth.
Ms. Banerjee's party has opposed the move to open retail to foreigners since last year, arguing it will drive local Indian retailers out of business.
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In the effort to save the lives of women and children, we need strong economies and supportive policies to drive local solutions that improve health care.
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Still, even data stored only on a local computer or drive can be compromised by a determined hacker who targets it when the machine is online, or if it is lost or stolen and falls into the wrong hands.
At the center of the Gigabit Neighborhood Gateway Program is the idea that communities and their local stakeholders can drive economic opportunities through private investments that leverage public capital that will accelerate the deployment and utilization of gigabit speed networks.
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While hunger is the top concern for Darden Harvest, the Darden Foundation also targets education and preservation of natural resources, and local affiliates that drive community service ideas provide a diverse array of ways for Darden to get involved in the areas its restaurant serves.
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But the number of young people needed to drive the local economy had fallen since 1991.
Its Chrome OS has a history of being secure (although cloud computing will never be as protected as a local personal hard-drive).
Truck drivers heading from Hamburg to Barcelona serviced by Deutsche Telekom will automatically continue accessing their data through local providers as they drive across France and Spain.
Liberal Democrat Local Government Spokesperson Peter Black also stressed the importance of electing councillors with a vision for improving local services in order to drive up standards.
In addition, Rovio has partnered with some of the best third party distribution platforms in the world to expand its global reach and drive even greater local engagement.
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Rep. Pete Lee, a Democrat from Colorado Springs who introduced the bill in January, says businesses that choose to become benefit corporations should be allowed to "promote the public good" through one-off projects, such as a fundraising drive for a local school or a day off for employees to do charitable work, that don't hurt profits.
Thus the battle between local and on-line storage continues to drive a new generation of enterprise storage for the cloud as well as external local storage for mobile devices.
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The Republican convention in New York, covered in New Jersey as local news, did much to drive home this perception.
He was riding a bicycle along a road near historic Port Arthur when he collided with a four-wheel drive vehicle at 1240 local time.
An intelligent individual who takes no orders, protects his local economy and is man enough to drive the message home.
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While it offers a Web-based version, it also comes in a version that exists only on your local computer, or on a removable drive.
The higher costs and higher latency of on-line storage will likely drive continued efforts to create local storage options for tablets, despite the architectural difficulties with iPad connectivity.
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But rather than trawling blindly through local farming regions, five self-drive touring trails have been created to make it easier than scoffing a plateful of fresh-picked British Columbia blueberries.
Our interest in local news, traffic and weather during drive times, for example, will remain strong, but we won't necessarily be getting it from local television news, or even radio.
Councillors sitting on joint fire and rescue boards, it added, had not provided a strong lead in scrutinising performance or in helping to drive change, engagement with local communities was "patchy".
For travellers seeking a local excursion, a 30-minute drive northward on paved roads leads to the Zagorohoria, a region of developed traditional mountain villages overlooking the awe-inspiring Vikos Gorge, said to be the world's deepest.
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From March 2010, all new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will come installed with the new Ovi Maps application and pre-loaded with local country map data and walk and drive navigation with access to location-aware Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.
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Miner and other mayors outside New York City and around the state have been urging the Cuomo administration for months to provide relief from state-mandated costs and laws that drive up the cost of local governments to levels they say taxpayers can no longer afford.
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