However, what Facebook is great at is providing millions in potential Web traffic to other quality service providers.
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Other projects will include a network of sensors to monitor air quality, traffic flow, water supply and other parameters.
Campaigners against the plans claimed the "car-centric development" would have a detrimental impact on local businesses on nearby Gloucester Road, air quality and traffic congestion.
Back in 2002, Mr. Marino testified, he wanted his officers to write 10 tickets for traffic, parking or quality-of-life violations, such as drinking in public, each month.
The launch of DriveNow and ParkNow in San Francisco and other cities is part of our commitment to the development of new mobility offerings, which will reduce the level of pollutant emissions and traffic congestion and improve quality of life for residents.
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Campaigners said plans to increase passenger capacity at the airport would create too much traffic and noise and damage quality of life.
As mobile data traffic continues to grow at a rapid pace, many mobile operators are transitioning from a 3G network to an all-internet protocol network, such as LTE, to manage the high volume of traffic and provide a high quality customer experience.
When a website can build consistent traffic off of an expectation of quality, it makes the writer think about the audience before the source.
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More generally, look for high quality names that have low traffic.
The Electric Networked-Vehicle was engineered to "alleviate concerns surrounding traffic congestion, parking availability, air quality and affordability for tomorrow's cities, " and they're also fully capable of transforming this place we call Earth into a next-generation Epcot.
Others like Yahoo's Answers generate a lot of traffic but have drawn mixed reviews on the quality of answers.
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It's all part of a crusade to lift traffic and sales around the world by adding ambience, quality and service to a business that largely ignores such niceties.
The concerns are that plans to increase the capacity from about 9.5 million passengers a year would create too much traffic and noise, significantly damaging residents' "quality of life".
Demand Media took a major hit in traffic after Google changed its search algorithm to weed low-quality pages out of top results.
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The majority of the pollution is caused by vehicles on the road and experts say reducing traffic in the cities is the best way of improving air quality.
At Cisco, our internal network traffic is nearly 70 percent video, driven largely by the high quality point-to-point video streams of our TelePresence video conferencing systems.
Pollution from road traffic, particularly diesel fumes, is the most significant cause of poor air quality in most cities.
Fluctuations in temperature, air quality and humidity will be recorded along with noise levels and foot traffic to provide a real-time breakdown of activity within the Moscone Center.
For example, IBM developed a smart traffic system for Stockholm that resulted in drop in traffic, increased green vehicle and public transportation use, and an improved overall quality of life for the city's residents.
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The reasons, however, are different: while in China my fright stemmed from high speeds and the creative maneuvers many drivers employed to beat traffic, in India the primary reason for my concern was the generally poor quality of the roads.
The high levels of Sizewell C traffic would result in increased journey times, a higher accident rate and poorer air quality, the report said.
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Slowly, over a decade Skype has taken up a good portion of the global, especially transatlantic, call traffic, and is a leader in VoIP calling, though not a leader in quality.
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He said police would no longer be needed by Sunday to oversee traffic at intersections where lights are out and that the return of mass transit will significantly improve quality of life for the city's residents.
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But video poses real challenges, as it consumes considerably more bandwidth than both voice and data, and video quality degrades substantially, often unacceptably, when network congestion interrupts or delays individual packets in traffic streams.
You can run two laps of the traffic-free city centre course, which was first staged in 1996 and now attracts the best quality field for an event of its kind in the East of England.
These allow the operator greater control over quality by cutting down the number of router hops the packets have to pass through and managing traffic flows to avoid congestion.
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