You will also find breweries piggybacking on the foodie culture that seems to follow grapes wherever they grow.
More than half the time, Krux found that data collectors were piggybacking on each other.
So yeah, basically it's a dumb device piggybacking all your Treo's most useful feature -- its connectivity.
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As a result of such piggybacking, websites often don't know how much data are being collected about their users.
Piggybacking on the popularity of Elf Yourself, Amazon has partnered with Jib Jab to create video gift cards.
One hope is that ringfencing will stop the subsidy that investment banks get by piggybacking on retail banks' state-underwritten balance-sheets.
Piggybacking on Teppco's right of way, Enterprise will be able to build new lines to tie the Marcellus into its network.
Nintendo also is piggybacking off the success 3-D has had in movie theaters, with three-dimensional titles such as "Avatar" setting box-office records.
But unlike Dr Rondelez's circuits, which work in test tubes, these operate inside cells, piggybacking on the existing cellular machinery found within them.
Once they have found a tumour, they stick to their target like glue, even piggybacking on malignant cells as these move through the body.
During the late 1990s, Argentina pegged its peso to the U.S. dollar as a way of piggybacking on the inflation-fighting techniques employed by Alan Greenspan.
After half a century of bringing their own tax codes increasingly into alignment with the federal one--essentially piggybacking on federal rules--the states are starting to go their own way.
"Our strength comes from being part of Schlumberger, " says Rostand, 46, who manages his own profit and loss line and has to land his own clients--no piggybacking on the mothership.
If Home takes off, Facebook will be piggybacking on the large sums of money that Google has spent developing, maintaining, and promoting Android and perhaps someday reaping more rewards than Google.
The Sunday flight -- dubbed CRS-1 -- will have the Dragon capsule piggybacking on a Falcon 9 rocket to punch through the atmosphere while carrying more than a thousand pounds of cargo.
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The professors found that investors can beat the market by about two percentage points a year, after trading costs, but only by piggybacking on the shares of every company that engages in this practice.
The piggybacking helps keep Dot compact and affordable.
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Though the sample Doctor Web found targeted Russians by piggybacking on an application for listening to music on the popular Russian social media site Vkontakte, screenshots of the malware show that the fraudulent installer uses English-language text, a sign that it may also be targeting non-Russians.
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The second study, commissioned by Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) and the National Cyber Security Alliance, also shows that more than 60% of employees sometimes use mobile devices without encrypted or password-protected data to connect to their work's network, and more than a third sometimes work by piggybacking on strangers' wireless Internet connections.
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