Shoppers use Relay by picking their food and vendor options on the Relay site and then selecting a designated pickup location and time.
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With hundreds of bands playing nightly in New Orleans, the listing provides users with location, time, and band information, including contact and twitter handles.
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We already knew that our smartphones tracked our location over time.
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For instance, it may be perfectly ok to correlate location and time-of-day information, but it will be deemed unacceptable if a third stream of user context data is introduced.
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The reading could then be recorded on a map, tagging how the user felt at a given location and time and allowing them to share that information with their friends.
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Margins, meanwhile, are fat for a reason: fresh food is always a high-risk business, which requires an intimate understanding of how customers' tastes vary according to store location and time of day.
But their location and time zone may put them at a disadvantage when it comes to attracting money from Asia and the Middle East, particularly when there are closer low-tax spots, such as Singapore.
For example, engineers working on a transmission or engine can simply walk down a hallway to get a question answered as opposed to calling someone in a different location and time zone, Winegarden said.
The plastic dongle plugs in-between an outlet and a device, and leverages a database of electricity prices based on location and time of day to calculate how much an appliance drains from your wallet per hour, day, week, month and year.
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Will the provider help us move our applications and data to another location when the time comes?
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The platform allows developers (and neophytes like me) to create real-time location-based alerts and applications for smart phones.
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Real-time location system and radio-frequency identification technologies let staff easily locate kits with expired medication or in need of replenishing.
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Current companies include Inrix, a fast-growing navigation and traffic technology company, and Awarepoint, which builds real-time location systems for hospitals.
This segment offers handheld and portable devices, and related software that can deliver real-time location data and directions to specific destinations.
Wifarer automatically up dates your location in real time, within three to five feet, and when you move, the beacon moves too.
The device fits into a checked bag and reports city location in real time to any mobile, Apple, Android, or SMS capable devices.
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Vehicle Locate: The subscriber can log on to the Family Link website to view a map with the vehicle's exact location at any time.
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The Trakdot LuggageTM tracker fits into a checked bag and reports city location in real time to any mobile, Apple, Android, or SMS capable devices.
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As companies rethink their offices, many are looking into "smart buildings, " wired with technologies that show workers' location in real time and suggest meetings with colleagues nearby.
For one, it will make it easier to vary bids by device, its location, and time of day, all of which Google knows from GPS, device signatures, and other data.
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Water was originally planned to be shot in India in 2000 but both the location and the time of production had to be altered after Hindu hardliners disrupted the shoot in Varanasi.
Enabling access to this function through BMW Apps allows drivers to use the car's familiar controls to share their location and arrival time while en route, without the dangers of picking up their phone.
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Segmentation enables marketers to capture behaviors and attributes about their Web and mobile visitors in order to create content tailored to their location, their time of day, type of browser or operating system, or even their brand of mobile device.
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He added it would be interesting to see whether the electronic patient record would prevent more errors once it was in place as any clinician treating the patient would be able to see relevant medication information, whatever their location or the time of day.
Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.
The simulation runs forward in time for three weeks in order to approximate the value of having a truck and driver at a certain location at a certain time, and gets a first result.
He said the time and location would be a secret to avoid any crowds.
Kobo is also planning to release new functionality around location and real-time information, Serbinis said.
Support for Video, Photo, Maps, Contact management, Location, real-time services via mobile are all terrible today.
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Define time and location based rules that dictate when and where your favorite gadgets show up.
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