Trigger control software could be relaxed when the gun is at home or in a car, while other safety features stay on to prevent accidental discharges.

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Compliant, which has been in the business for five years, uses software on the handset to trigger recording of BlackBerry and Symbian (Nokia) calls and will soon offer Windows 7 and Android as well.

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From the initial Technology Trigger, when software first made blogging easy, to the Peak of Inflated Expectations and the Trough of Disillusionment, thence on to the Slope of Enlightenment and, eventually, the Plateau of Productivity, blogging has passed almost all the way through the Hype Cycle.

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If you're into your data, you can also access trigger statistics from the software, complete with graphs.

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The right actions may require workflow or process orchestration, whether manual or via software engines, to control the flow of work and to trigger the execution of human (or automated activities) at the right time.

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Ellison knew when he acquired Sun that the explosion of the global Internet economy, the customer-engagement economy, the real-time-and-always-on economy, the Big Data economy, or the whatever-you-want-to-call-it economy, would trigger analytical and transactional workloads for Oracle customers that would crush traditional, non-optimized hardware and software combinations.

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