David Coulthard failed to get past the first round of qualifying for the second successive race as a combination of traffic and poor tyre performance saw him settle for 17th on the grid.

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It has 160 Mhz of spectrum in some markets and an average of 120 Mhz in the big urban markets where it really matters because that is where the traffic is that causes bottlenecks and poor service.

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As the company explains to us in a statement (after the break), it's concentrating on supporting Watch in those regions with the "highest engagement" while dropping those with "less application traffic" -- in short, markets with poor performance get the boot.

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Pollution from road traffic, particularly diesel fumes, is the most significant cause of poor air quality in most cities.

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The reasons, however, are different: while in China my fright stemmed from high speeds and the creative maneuvers many drivers employed to beat traffic, in India the primary reason for my concern was the generally poor quality of the roads.

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When Robert Poor looks at the world, he sees 50 billion embedded microcontrollers, the workhorse chips inside cars, traffic lights and air conditioners, doing their jobs in splendid isolation.

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Heavy rain led to traffic chaos at the Isle of Wight Festival in June, while Guilfest in Surrey went into administration after poor ticket sales.

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And it's apparently because policing especially in Guinea-Bissau, which is the weakest link, is so poor that these Latin American, South American drug cartels are using this region as a major transit hub to especially traffic cocaine as the drug of choice, and that's on to Europe.

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