Experts suggest the rise of GPS-enabled devices means the efforts could hold the key to future profits if the firms add location-triggered adverts or use the data to promote situation-specific services.

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This form of social learning is becoming more relevant because of the speed of change of information, the increasing demand for situation-specific knowledge, and recognition that this knowledge can come from practically anywhere.

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Adding predictive routines and arbitrary values allows for situation-specific code we might not get elsewhere, whether it's estimating the finish time of a marathon or guessing just how much post-run beer is possible before the guilt sets in.

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We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda -- at least not until 2013.

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Is he doing anything specific to encourage -- there was really not an answer about the Syria situation.

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