Equally as important, companies can tap into information found on the various social networks as a means to uncover specific consumer feedback on their brand.
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Expect diligent investors to be able to tap into more information than their lazier or less well-trained peers.
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The lack of security could have permitted apps on some HTC phones to tap into such information as financial account numbers and access codes.
NetApp also announced a new partnership with Cloudera to help enterprises tap the wealth of information in their unstructured databases.
This phenomenon presents both an exciting and daunting opportunity for businesses looking to tap into this fire hose of information.
But the new rules also provided new tools: countries can now tap into informal sources of disease information as part of their official reporting.
Many blogs and websites target a particular industry or corporation and tap inside sources eager to leak information without revealing their identities and putting their relationships or jobs at risk.
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By giving us new tools for verification, enabling us to tap a global network for intelligence and information, and strengthening our own law enforcement, the treaty will make it easier for us to prevent to punish those who seek to violate its rules.
Systems that tap a phone's camera and GPS to overlay information on an image of nearby surroundings, also called "augmented reality, " is also in development, officials said.
The project will tap existing undersea fiber optic cables and communications satellites to transmit information some 100 times faster than currently possible.
The era of "information appliances" - electronic gizmos designed to tap into the Internet, often for specialized transactions - is approaching, and with it the end of the PC as the primary tool for online access.
Local search, the device enables owners to tap into an always up-to-date database of local information, rendering obsolete the war over which device has the most millions of points-of-interest.
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Following an investigation by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner, Facebook in June limited applications to accessing only the public parts of a user's profile, unless the user grants additional permission. (Canadian officials later expressed satisfaction with Facebook's steps.) Previously, applications could tap any data the user had access to, including detailed profiles and information about a user's friends.
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With social media networks functioning as a primary source for information sourcing and dissemination for many, the search engines needed to tap into that larger social conscious.
When viewing an episode of TV's Mad Men, for example, consumers could tap on objects, such as Don Draper's hat, to get more information about the items and where to buy them.
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If you tap on this bar, you get an "info sheet" with a wealth of information and functions, including the photographic street view of the location, interior photos, reviews, hours, menus, and the ability to phone the place or share its location.
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Insurers are accelerating efforts to tap into the systems that enable a car to communicate with satellites and mobile data networks, and use information about how you drive to set your rates.
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