Evernote took a long time to synchronize my account, and the Kindle app had to stop every few pages to fetch the next section of a book, even if the book had been downloaded.

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Available to broadcasters, cable companies, publishers, content providers and others, TVSync's open API leverages the best video and audio ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) technology of the industry leader Vobile to facilitate exciting new applications that synchronize, in real time, to the content a user is consuming.

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It took military precision to synchronize schedules and maximize camera time between the two teams (dubbed Dragon and Wolf).

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The measurements are synchronize within one microsecond of GPS time.

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Even if you've been married for years, now is a good time to sit down and synchronize employee benefits.

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