Wi-fi is also much faster than mobile phone data networks and traditional dial-up connections.
This included giving details of which of its agencies can access e-mail and phone data.
On the other hand, phone data can be used to establish the whereabouts of suspects.
According to Peter Uglow, director of Focus Forensic Telecommunications in Bromsgrove, mobile-phone data helped disprove Mr Huntley's alibi.
The rogue code nabs phone data over Bluetooth, spreads over USB drives and records conversations from the PC's microphone.
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Rescue services sometimes need phone data to locate someone who needs urgent help.
Based on the filings, GrubHub allegedly treated its workers as employees but failing to offer proper benefits like reimbursements for gas, parking and phone data.
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The participants also filed reports on their health, weight, eating habits, opinions, purchases and other personal information, so the researchers could match the phone data to relationships and behavior.
The Home Office has failed to make the case for the new laws, not least by failing to show how the police use existing laws to monitor mobile phone data.
The study used cell phone data, both calls and text, from residential and business callers, and overlaid the caller and callee on the U.S. map to show just how far apart geographically those relationships are.
Mobile phone data placed Cowan outside the hospital, the prosecution said, and his DNA was found on a jumper sleeve used as a balaclava and on the inside of a case which allegedly contained the gun.
Mr Perrins said mobile phone data placed Mr Cowan outside West Suffolk Hospital on the day of the hold-up, and his DNA was found on a balaclava and on the inside of a case which the prosecution say contained the gun.
Depending on who's getting arrested, and for what, warrantless searches of cell phone data could have wide-ranging potential to implicate not just the arrested person, but also to draw police attention to other people who might be involved (or merely associated) with the arrestee.
Earlier this month, a test conducted by the Leviathan Security Group showed that even "no-permissions" Android apps can access potentially sensitive data on your phone -- and transmit that data elsewhere via your phone's Web browser.
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The vehicle successfully put six spacecraft in orbit for US satellite phone and data company, Globalstar.
If Amazon offers a Kindle phone with data rates in this range it could truly disrupt the market.
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Rather like text messaging on a mobile phone, data travel over spare network capacity not used by telephone calls.
Qwest plans to sell access to its network directly to businesses, offering them speedier Internet access, integrated phone and data service, and (it claims) lower costs.
"Using our aggregated and anonymised mobile phone mast data we can provide retailers with a digital headcount to help them understand the movement of crowds, " a spokesperson told the BBC.
So it happens every now and again that folks scavenging for copper end up cutting through fiberoptic cable, which can shut down phone and data traffic for a limited area.
Nokia tried to make everything on the phone as data efficient as possible, and this can be seen in the light social apps and Xpress cloud-compression browser, which worked well in testing.
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For the government, a warrant isn't currently required after a certain period of time for older information -- e-mail, social networking profiles or cell-phone location data -- stored "in the cloud" on Web servers.
Users pay call and data charges for phone-to-phone conversations and translation data for screen text and voice readouts.
Founded in 2009, the service aggregates anonymized data, such as mobile phone usage and other data.
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They can access mobile phone operators' data that pinpoints a user's location within a few hundred yards.
The bill suggested that Mr Mazkouri's phone had downloaded data by dialling up the internet every 20 minutes for three weeks.
Fire authorities and ambulance services will be given automatic access to phone and internet data along with six other state agencies.
When the horn is pressed on the abdomen, the phone screen displays data on the condition and location of the fetus.
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Mr. Bush ordered the National Security Agency to monitor phone calls and data transmissions involving foreign nationals suspected of involvement in terror.
And it's an extra that the phone's data-hungry users can't do without.
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