Locately in 2008 with the idea of applying location analysis to the then-recently-introduced Apple (AAPL) iPhone.

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Sony's taken a stab at it before -- but this time around, it's imagining a controller with ultrasonic location analysis and Wiimote-like IR tracking.

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But as the world becomes more hyper-local the need to incorporate location into analysis of key business functions is becoming imperative in many industries.

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Thus, documentation complex entirety integrating diversity of parameters that characterize location of petroglyphs offers a qualitative new level of the scientific analysis, materials integration, monitoring, preservation and use of the monuments of Azerbaijan.

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More than 39, 600 of those segments had sufficient information on their location, intensity, length, and width to be used in the analysis of tornado strike probabilities and maximum wind speeds.

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Potentially any data that you bring into the U.S. can be subject to inspection and analysis, either at the point of entry, or a remote location.

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