The iPhone inspired creative new features from companies, starting with useful applications such as Bank of America's online banking app and FedEx's package tracker, but the bigger size of the Apple tablet will allow marketers to introduce more browser and video functions.
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For one month a year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) converts this area into holiday central for NORAD's Santa Tracker, a half-century-old program that has become a thing of legend -- a curious juxtaposition of warfare preparedness and storybook magic.
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Once morningstar.com's premium fund selector spits out the funds from our screen, we drop them into fund tracker Morningstar's portfolio function.
In Asia ETFs were stimulated by the successful launch of the region's first, the Tracker Fund of Hong Kong (Trakhk), in November 1999.
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"Overall market growth in 2010 was exceptional, " said Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.
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Don't go to DHL or UPS's Websites, try Santa Tracker instead.
"The share decline of smartphone operating systems not named iOS since Android's introduction isn't a coincidence, " said Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.
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Here, highlights of the week's activity recorded by the Forbes.com Layoff Tracker, which counts the layoffs at all the nation's 500 largest publicly traded corporations.
Since the tracker carries a wealth of information about U.S. troop movements, soldiers would have to destroy the tracker quickly if they face capture.
But I can see from the Santa tracker that he's got his sleigh full of toys, and -- oh!
South Korea's LG is among the latest to join the market with its Smart Activity Tracker - a bracelet device which resembles Nike's bestselling Fuelband.
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The chairman of the Treasury Committee has written to financial regulators about Bank of Ireland's plan to raise customers' mortgage tracker rates.
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So right now he's in Estonia, according to the NORAD tracker.
Though his short-lived Comedy Central series took a ratings tumble at this time last year, concert tracker Pollstar named him North America's top touring comic for the second year in a row.
They backed a yachting syndicate that competed in the America's Cup. (Their vessel, equipped with such Loomis-inspired gadgets as a custom-designed wind tracker, came in dead last.) They acquired most of Hilton Head Island, S.C. for use as their private playground.
Google accounted for 64.1% of U.S. search traffic in March, according to traffic tracker Hitwise.
Amsterdam-based TomTom has grabbed 20% of the U.S. market, according to Chicago-based investment tracker Morningstar.
Smart Activity Tracker bands will also sync with LG's smart TVs and fitness apps like Let's Dance to offer a workout from the comforts of your living room.
According to new research from our Country Share Tracker (CST) service, Samsung's Galaxy S3 overtook Apple's iPhone 4S to become the world's best-selling smartphone model for the first time ever in the third quarter of 2012.
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Besides attracting prestige, membership of the FTSE 100 offers some support to a firm's share price, by attracting investment from so-called tracker funds, whose performance is designed to mirror that of the index.
"They are going to pick and choose, they are not going to be anybody's stooge, " said Roger Kay, president of tech-tracker Endpoint Technologies Associates.
Rob Enderle, principal analyst at tech industry tracker Enderle Group, argues that rival Circuit City 's woes could make it ready to take a risk by pairing up with Dell.
"Their relative position versus Nvidia has improved compared to six months ago, " says Dean McCarron, president of chip tracker Mercury Research. amd is also building ati's graphics capabilities into a new CPU that may see the light of day in the second half of 2009.
"Price may be no object, but it's always a consideration, " says Will Strauss, president of chip tracker Forward Concepts.
It's not that difficult to find them if you're a good tracker.
Nationwide's chief economist Martin Gahbauer said lower interest rates had given existing homeowners with tracker or standard variable mortgages a welcome breathing space.
This past week, U.S. stock funds posted their biggest inflows in a decade, according to fund tracker EPFR Global.
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Fund-tracker Lipper Inc. reports that over the last two weeks U.S. stock mutual funds experienced the highest two-week inflow of new money since April, 2000.
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For more than two decades, soda was the No. 1 drink in the U.S. with consumption peaking in 1998 at 54 gallons a year, according industry tracker Beverage Digest.
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