"Even though you're giving data back to consumers, you've still got to sell it, " said Tom Ilube from Callcredit, ''and that includes branding it.
They're using data collected by the weather service during the storm, to try to understand the surge, try to understand the wave heights, and they're going to create a computer model, as opposed to the scale model of a city, for the storm as it came up from the south and the Gulf of Mexico, and see if they can recreate the exact conditions.
There's also an off-road mode, which essentially gives you the option to switch over to Opera Mini for extra data compression for those times you need it -- this obviously comes in handy when you're reaching your data threshold or just in a low-reception area.
If you're into your data, you can also access trigger statistics from the software, complete with graphs.
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The hope is that by comparing the different pre-fall projections with the observed re-entry data after the event, future modelling efforts can be finessed.
To make sure we can keep offering our Beyond Talk Plans at such great prices, we're putting a data speed reduction in place for anyone who uses over 2.5GB of data in a month.
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By eliminating time-consuming printing and faxing, shipping (with potentially lost contracts), rework from missing signatures, errors from re-keying data, and costs of distributing copies to each signer, companies and individuals who use eSignature benefit in a number of concrete, financially significant ways.
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The app doesn't seem to eat up much space (it occupies 4MB on the device), so it appears to be pulling map data OTA. That's a good thing if you're worried about filling up your G1, but bad if you need info quickly or you're not in a data-gettin' spot.
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"Wikipedia is a great concept, but when you're trying to collect factual data about whether things are happening or if they're not, we think it's much better to use controlled crowdsourcing, " Knauer says.
And then more time would be spent by your finance department re-keying this data into their company system.
Rest assured: other companies are also trying to figure out how to re-purpose the data that they have.
We're also guessing that data networking and the convergence with telecommunications are evolving.
The good news is that, unless you're moving tons of data, either system will let you skip rewiring your house.
If you're watching your mobile data diet, now's the time to go download the Opera Mini 7 app from the Android Market.
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At the very best, the first hints of these problems came from a re-analysis of data--an unreliable technique--two years after the drug had been on the market.
The one interesting aspect of the Wikileaks inspired drive to re-look at data protection is that it may cause us to do the right thing for the wrong reason.
The problems started in 2001, when doctors at the Cleveland Clinic, including Steven Nissen and Eric Topol, , published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association re-analyzing existing data.
"A lot of what they're doing is putting data together and creating information to give a better customer experience, " says Joe Dignan, a chief analyst for public sector technology at Ovum.
As with my spreadsheet method, CarCare is based on the notion that you're willing to enter data into your Mac about as often as you take the car in to be serviced.
"In Europe, it's all about the rate of change we're going from horrible data to not-so-bad data, and the market will rally off that, " said Andres Garcia-Amaya, global market strategist at the mutual-fund arm of J.
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Unless you update manually, the phone will check all by itself every 7 days, and if it finds something, it'll grab it within 2 days during periods when you're not using your data connection (wouldn't want it ruining the user experience, after all).
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Until now, the mobile hotspot market has given users essentially two basic payment plans, both of which are borrowed from the phone market: You can prepay for some fixed amount of data and re-up when you run out, or you can plop down a monthly fee for a capped per-month allocation of bits.
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You're paying for that text even though you already have a data plan, unless you're grandfathered into one of the better unlimited plans of the 20th century.
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"We're going to take this data and process it over the next several months, " Thompson said.
There's something seriously screwed up with Stint and we're getting some sort of data bleed, but on this impossible ...
Instead, the company enlisted Nissen to re-analyze the Montreal data, throwing out artery scans that his team at the Cleveland Clinic found unreadable.
In 2001, two respected cardiologists at the Cleveland Clinic published a re-analysis of old data that indicated Vioxx might raise the risk of heart attack.
In fact, the researchers re-examined the same data set and found that people who dumped their friends who gained weight were even more susceptible to obesity.
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