Better tracking data would be required to maximize the effectiveness of debris removal prizes.
The industry has estimated that nearly 80% of online display ads are based on tracking data.
Last year, the online-ad industry launched a program to label ads that are sent to computer users based on tracking data.
In April, China launched its first tracking data relay satellite to lessen its dependency on ground satellite control and relay stations.
"Two months' worth of hourly tracking data will inevitably reveal a rich slice of the user's life, activities and associations, " he wrote.
She also says that, while Acxiom does store personally identifiable information, it doesn't store or merge anonymous online-tracking data, such as Web-browsing records.
That meant selling information to virtually anyone--inventory-tracking data to car dealers, load-matching service to truckers, coupon-printing kiosks to grocery stores and fire-alert information to forestry services.
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According to tracking data, The Muppets will come out on top not because kids are so excited to see the film but because their parents will drag them to see it.
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Perhaps the most impressive statistic produced by NASCAR (and measured by Mars, Inc. tracking data) is that Mars, Inc. receives an impressive 4-to-1 return on investment from their sponsorship in NASCAR.
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Expect it to score well here: Tesco in the last few years has displayed a zealous appetite for mining information about its customers' shopping habits by tracking data from its loyalty card.
Tracking data from the 50 largest listed oil and gas producing companies globally (ex FSU) indicates that cash, production and unit costs in 2011 grew at a rate significantly faster than the 10 year average.
Dr Read told the meeting that the tracking data he collects are now available online, to allow fishermen to follow the movements of turtles and, if they wish, to modify the deployment of their nets accordingly.
And the tracking of consumer data is a timely issue being actively dissected by companies with a vested interest in tracking online data.
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The data are sent from the orbiting outpost to NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, which relay it to the satellite reception dishes at NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico.
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"We built out a whole customized system, with Salesforce's support, of call tracking, data collection, " the CEO says.
Manufacturing layoffs and job losses hit their lowest level since BLS started tracking the data in 1995.
We have been tracking salary data the past three years for our MBA students in Sustainable Enterprise.
Those applications now include online payment, video, mapping, e-mail, social networking, search and soon, DoubleClick's behavior-tracking advertising data.
The news is even better in manufacturing where layoffs and job losses hit their lowest level since BLS started tracking the data in 1995.
Gun-rights advocates, including the NRA, have raised concerns about tracking this data, including the possibility that acknowledging legal gun ownership could bring higher insurance premiums.
Both spacecraft make use of the US space agency's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) to speak to the ground and controllers do not want any conflicts.
Some brain-imaging studies suggest that people who regularly use the Internet become more skillful in tracking down data and some video games appear to help players improve visual acuity.
We were sitting at our monitors, tracking the data.
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The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with Nasa's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.
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As we started tracking this data we discovered something surprising: the majority of ripple effect website failures are caused by online advertising services, whose ads either slow down page load times or, worse, can actually prevent the entire page from loading.
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For example, when a user visited a website that had code for one tracking technology, the data collection would call out to and trigger other tracking technologies that weren't embedded on the site.
Pharmacy professors are testing patient data tracking apps, while chemistry ones are using molecular 3-D visualization apps.
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The change created separate sales forces to go after HCM (employee data tracking) software customers and marketing.
To make this discovery, the researchers sifted through four years of data tracking gamma-rays that were created by pions.
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He is hiring mathematicians and database administrators for a new division to create algorithms that will draw insight from data tracking consumer behavior.
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