Getting back to third-quarter activity, broad-shouldered technical conditions carried activity higher.

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On the other side of the technical ledger, surging bond takeout activity helped tamp down supply.

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The technical equipment to deal with that type of activity is not possessed by the federal government.

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Looking ahead, arrangers expect dividend activity to continue apace as long as technical conditions are supportive and the macro picture remains stable.

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Kevin Cavanaugh, VP, Business and Technical Strategy, IBM Collaboration Solutions, said that there will be native activity stream applications on mobile devices and tablets that will communicate with a cloud-based service that does the aggregation and helps figure out which activity streams are important to you.

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PayPal and Amazon have developed fraud detection tools that depend on massive datasets containing not only financial details for transactions, but IP addresses, browser information, and other technical data that will help these companies refine models to predict, identify, and prevent fraudulent activity.

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Like every other defense program -- and, for that matter, any other government activity -- responsible officials and their contractors must be held to the highest standards of integrity and technical performance when it comes to what is, arguably, one of the Nation's most important initiatives: the effort to defend the American people against ballistic missile attack.

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