But the London force is also reportedly using software that masquerades as a mobile phone network, allowing it to intercept communications and gather data about users in a targeted area, such as a demonstration.
The head of the German parliament's Foreign Relations Committee, Ruprecht Polenz, says Washington should show more patience and not be in such a rush to get targeted U.N. sanctions.
The content can be targeted either to demographic profiles of audiences on a site, or can be targeted to context, such as matching a video with a blog post.
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Those that choose not to engage in on-board activity, or do not appear to fit in with the other passengers - such as younger passengers on a cruise targeted at the over-50s - should also be scrutinised, they said.
And it claimed that anti-truancy schemes already in place showed that such targeted education spending could produce a substantial reduction in youth crime rates.
But there is concern that the presence of sophisticated Russian-supplied weaponry will make it much harder to agree and carry out such intervention, implement a blockade or conduct targeted airstrikes in the future.
For those targeted by such firms there is a choice - employ expensive patent lawyers or simply agree to hand over licensing fees.
There is, of course, another cost to employing diagnostic tests with targeted therapies: Such tests create a situation where only people who would benefit from a drug take it--decreasing the size of the potential market.
"We regret the disruption in service to our loyal audiences in Sri Lanka, but such targeted interference in our programmes is a serious breach of trust with those audiences, which the BBC cannot allow, " he said.
The imaging mechanism can non-invasively permeate thin layers of bone, such as the skull, and can help define a targeted treatment strategy for persistent cancer.
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African commentators are speculating that the Baidu deal will be followed by one with a low cost device manufacturer such as Huawei, specifically targeted at the emerging region.
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Hammerson, with a 97.7% occupancy in its centers, says it helps retailers drive shoppers into its centers through marketing, such as a "digital loyalty" program, which delivers targeted promotions to consumers via mobile devices according to their shopping behavior.
All four of the 3D-capable models include Panasonic's proprietary IPTV platform, VIERA Connect1, while the 2D models feature IP VOD, a service that offers a limited, though targeted, selection of such sites as Netflix, HuluPlus, Amazon Instant Video, Vudu, CinemaNow and YouTube.
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For targeted therapies, it would be smart to include companies that make targeted diagnostics--such as Vysis , a division of Abbott Labs (nyse: ABT - news - people ) that makes a version of the Herceptin test--from the outset.
But while there may be a need for remedial FCC action--in the relatively rare case when there may be a proven market failure--any such action should be targeted narrowly to redress demonstrable consumer harms.
Such attacks have a tremendous and lasting effect on the place that was targeted.
The popularity of location-based services and the increasing acceptance of mobile advertising have opened the door to a host of opportunities to draw traffic into stores, such as sending targeted coupons to mobile users based on their location or allowing consumers to check product availability before entering the store.
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Same-sex couples are a small-enough proportion of all couples that they tend to be too small a part of national surveys to produce reliable data, necessitating targeted surveys such as Prof.
The more aggressive and widespread the compliance communication, the better chance such companies have to stay out of the prosecutorial crosshairs should foreign partners get targeted in a corruption probe.
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Demographically targeted shows such as Dance Moms will be able to provide an appropriate home for a toilet paper commercial.
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The goal is to provide users a place to click in the ad itself that would let them opt out of receiving such targeted ads. (It doesn't turn off tracking altogether.) The program has been slow to catch on, new findings indicate.
In the age of the Internet, it is time to recognize that very little is private any more and the value of carefully managed disclosure to a well-targeted group of sophisticated investors far outweighs any real or perceived cost of such disclosure.
Over the last year I have seen a flurry of apps targeted at bars and restaurants that hope to integrate with market leading POS systems such as Micros.
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Even now, says Nicholas Vogelzang , director of the Nevada Cancer Institute, there is a real "paucity" of data for Erbitux, compared with that available for other targeted agents, such as Avastin.
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