Shamus Khan, a sociologist at Columbia University, is analyzing the orchestra's subscriber lists to create a database mapping New York's elites in the seats of the concert hall.
Taking that proposal a step further, he suggests that Uncle Sam could adopt a system similar to California's "ReadyReturn" program, where taxpayers can log on to a database and see the government's estimate for their tax returns based on historical and wage information.
Should prosecutors be allowed to subpoena a company's DNA database of thousands of people if they suspect it contains a match to a crime suspect?
Another feature called "Expert On-Demand, " sorts through a company's database of experts to create a video connection between a user--say, a confused customer in a bank's branch office--and the person best suited to answer his or her questions on any given topic.
Square believes the future of payments isn't swiping a card but merely giving a cashier your name, which is stored within the company's database and linked to a credit card.
When a tag is fitted it takes 6-10 days to build up a database of the animal's behaviour, and the sensors have a range of up to 600 metres.
The health workers were then supposed to use Voxiva's technology to collect and enter all the information into a central database, which would spit out mobile text messages telling patients how to stay healthy.
By 2008, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration's Web site, 38 states had passed legislation to create a database for physicians and pharmacists to prevent abusers from obtaining multiple prescriptions.
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Wahler's Hunt Valley, Maryland-based firm uses database and Internet technology to track a company's consumption of printed goods -- such as business cards and stationery -- and designs programs to make these purchases less costly.
After the hearing, the head of the FBI's Boston office, Richard DesLauriers, issued a statement describing the FBI and Boston police department's work together on a joint-terrorism task force, where police detectives had access to a database with the details of the FBI's inquiry into Mr. Tsarnaev.
It was well liked by its customers, who needed software and training to help them run IBM's DB2 database system, but it could not seem to turn a consistent profit.
After a really successful partnership syndicating gdgt's product database to tens of millions of Engadget pages per month, Peter and I were approached by a whip-smart guy by the name of Jay Kirsch, who runs the group Engadget, TechCrunch, Joystiq, and TUAW are a part of.
Consultancies are also springing up, selling companies on ways to use Amazon for things like online backup systems and database clusters to speed a Web site's performance.
Consider a subscription to the world's largest database of auction records for art, antiques and fine collectibles.
For potential passengers seeking ship information, there's no central database that can be viewed to determine a track record of safety or health inspections.
Here's a simple scenario: If a company uses JigSaw, a crowd-sourced contact database, to get contact data about prospects, it then can transfer that data to Marketo, a B2B marketing automation vendor, which will send out offers to view content.
The problem is that, as Roberta Wohlstetter pointed out half a century ago in her study of Pearl Harbor, separating out the really important signals from all the "noise" in the system is only easy to do after the fact, particularly when the U.S. government has now assembled a database of an astonishing number of 700, 000 individuals it suspects of ties to terrorism.
Updates posted on the Orchard's database are pushed from a single location to social media and other websites.
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With cameras in far-flung cities all connecting to the same database, a person's movements can be tracked across states or continents.
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Dishwashers and water heaters that are programmed to do most of their high energy tasks at night, for instance, or Ford's Value charging system, which leverages a cloud database to charge electric vehicles when utility rates are at their lowest.
Her name was subsequently added to a terrorism database along with her son's, an intelligence official said last week.
In August 2006 they nabbed their first customer, providing JM Family Enterprises, the largest distributor of Toyotas in the U.S., with a way for employees to check into a centralized database via text messages after hurricanes.
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David Cesarini, an economist at the Center for Experimental Social Science at New York University, Magnus Johannesson of the Stockholm School of Economics and others have used the database to investigate whether people's genes play a role in determining fairness and financial risk-taking.
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Some of the information disclosed to Mr Ackroyd came from Brady's medical records on a confidential database known as the Patient Administrative and Clinical Information Service (PACIS).
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The gaps in the federal database trace back to a 1997 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down part of a law requiring states to report mental-health records, ruling that states could share such records as they wished.
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The 100 women in Valle's alleged database live in the United States and overseas, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation.
The previous Labour government attempted to introduce a central, government-run database of everyone's phone calls and emails, but eventually dropped the bid after widespread anger.
The crane in Vauxhall thought to have been involved in Wednesday's crash appears on the database as a "high-rise jib crane (lit by night)", along with its co-ordinates and height - 770ft (234m) .
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Mr Abdulmutallab's name was added to the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment database, but not put on a no-fly list.
He had campaigned actively, participating in candidate forums, doing interviews on local television and radio and joining in calls for the city Housing Authority chairman's resignation and opposition to the way public school student data is being used in a state database.
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