There's even a handful of improvements over the iOS iteration, with the ability to use the iPlayer alarm function without keeping the app running overnight.

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Also new is Sports Scoring, a function that lets the user record a running tally of the score for a sporting event by simply tapping on a smartphone.

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CouchDB and MongoDB are essentially single-headed databases, and from that standpoint, availability is a function of how long you can keep the hardware running.

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These were things the long-running conference was explicitly meant to resolve, to enable an enlarged Union to function.

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