Late-Monday, Arbitron, said it was delaying the expansion of its new electronic radio ratings system, the Portable People Meter.
The Portable People Meter is an electronic device that measures nearby radio signals.
Garnering only a nine share in the advertiser-beloved 18-to-49-year-old demographic, the broadcast ranked the lowest in Nielsen's recorded People Meter history.
Late-Monday, Arbitron (nyse: ARB - news - people ), said it was delaying the expansion of its new electronic radio ratings system, the Portable People Meter.
The company has spent several years developing a "portable people meter"--a cell-phone-sized device that panelists could carry with them and automatically record not only radio signals but television sound and even such other acoustic sources as music piped in at a grocery store.
Police say that more than 30 adults lived in the warren of rooms, where three people shared each square meter of living space, according to the state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
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When electricity first came here, dos Santos says, the utility charged a flat rate to entice people to go on the meter.
These concerns are commonly exacerbated because most people only discover they have a smart meter after it was installed.
By communicating with a smart meter, Nucleus will let people program appliances to take advantage of off-peak pricing plans offered by utilities that have time-of-use electricity plans.
This is partly because in 1997 the new Labour government made metering voluntary: a policy that was bound to fail, because the only people likely to volunteer to have a meter installed are those who think they consume less than average and will receive lower bills.
You can only create an event "here and now" and the only people who are invited are those nearby (within a 250 meter radius or so).
People still pay utilities bills directly to the man who reads the meter, and collect bank statements at local branches.
Healy and Brewster dream of people someday driving a fuel-cell car up to an Enernoc meter during peak demand and pumping electricity back into the grid.
More than 2, 000 people, or about 10% of the population, died in the 15-meter waves that swallowed the city in Iwate Prefecture.
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When people drink the water, the worm begins to grow inside them and can reach one meter in length.
Most people might think they already have that freedom--by obeying the signs or keeping the parking meter stocked with quarters.
What he got was Sleighride, a 23-meter luxury yacht that on its maiden voyage in 1996 hit 24 knots--with 16 people on board, including 4 of Gosnell's grandchildren.
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