For product strategists, this new gold mine of information means opportunities to create new experiences based on location-aware services.

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The collections can be found by accessing: Mine of Information.

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Mr. ROGERS: The Army Corps, you know, you bring them into the case 'cause you're going to mine them for information.

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Buy a shredder and use it for all bills and receipts because "dumpster diving" is a gold mine of personal information for identity thieves.

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And I can assure you there was no better, fiercer, intense laboratory to mine for the nitty gritty information that became second nature to me.

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The regulator plans to roll out the early warning system this year, saying it will mine a "rich vein of information" continuously supplied by companies through official filings such as annual reports.

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Governments and public officials are rushing to embrace the concept, throwing open the vast panoply of publicly collected information for the digitally savvy to mine and exploit.

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But something changed Wednesday, and mine owner Bob Murray told five of us that we could go into the mine as far as we wanted and provide information, video and photographs for all the news media present.

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To speed rescue efforts, engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a robot that would eliminate some of the unknowns of mine rescue operations and arm first responders with the most valuable tool: information.

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Whoever the impostor was, he took my profile information, including my photo, and started a new profile page that looked exactly like mine.

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