"It's not just the super-prime" borrowers who are being barraged with new offers, said Anuj Shahani, director of Synovate's Competitive Tracking Services.
If tracking services are not used carefully and within the bounds of privacy laws, legitimate owners and security professionals can get into legal gray areas, the repercussions of which could be far more expensive than a replacement iPhone.
The main objective is to guarantee quality assurance of services by tracking the results of the activities and using the information to reformulate actions, tools and trainings.
The rise of video sites and streaming services have made tracking the popularity of a song much more complicated.
While the leader of the mobile-monitoring pack has been Nextel with their Mobile Locator, recently the mobile tracking firm Xora has released services like "geofences" which sets off an alarm when the employee goes to a previously no-no designated area (we bet 80% of these are bars).
All the major companies that provide us with Internet services are interested in tracking us.
AeroVironment hopes to generate sales not just from services like the Army and Air Force, but also from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security (for help with border control) and weather services (for storm tracking and disaster recovery).
Although we can all find ways to protect ourselves, the only real way to avoid Google tracking us is to stop using their services altogether.
Michael Lipper, of Lipper Analytical Services, a fund-tracking firm, has made a small fortune from the industry's obsession with performance comparisons, but has found that time and again fund managers who were losers one year become winners the next, and vice versa.
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The line at the top of this post is taken from the homepage of DeskTime, a time tracking company that dispenses with the self-improvement ethos of rival services and gets down to the gritty business of employee accountability.
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They announced a deal this week to offer wireless services to BMW. Garmin is going to launch a new tracking device for people, pets or products.
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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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