While Russia and some African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries want to tax foreign content providers and track web-based traffic, the EU has formed a bloc with the US to kibosh any such changes.

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But it is hard to see how it can keep track of the ever-growing traffic that passes through or leaves big corporate IT systems, for instance through a simple memory stick (which plugs into a PC and can hold the equivalent of dozens of feature-length films).

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Food inspectors, air-traffic controllers, specialists who track down loose nuclear material wouldn't get their paychecks.

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Global airline passenger traffic is on track for double-digit growth this year as a rebounding Chinese market leads broader expansion by carriers in Asia and the Middle East.

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Although RSS-driven traffic to websites is notoriously difficult to track, there is no question in my mind that RSS is good for publishers.

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Many organizations use a fast-flux network of shells, making it harder to track malicious Web traffic to its source.

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The flaws he found weren't instantly catastrophic, he said, but could be used to track private airplanes, intercept messages and jam communications between planes and air-traffic control.

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Pinterest has also told businesses it will introduce new data-analytics tools, so companies can keep better track of their Pinterest traffic and how users are interacting with the content.

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