By next year, phones that act as digital cameras will be on the market, allowing users to video-conference in traffic jams, type letters to their boss from Bali, and basically play hooky from the office while still working.

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Mr Hamilton also said the construction would bring "a considerable amount of high, heavy vehicle traffic movements on to the island on what are particularly narrow roads, unsuitable for this type of traffic movement, over a three to four year period".

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With other car insurance providers, every type of traffic violation is considered in your rates.

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Operators need to offload this new type of data traffic to Wi-Fi networks fast, to relieve the 3G networks as they plan their build-out strategy for even more mobile data use.

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How do we know if the road type is swamping any effect from traffic density?

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Web usage analytics software has been around for many years, giving publishers traffic data for their sites, yet this type of functionality has been extremely limited or non-existent for users of consumer social networking sites.

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Only recently has the first physical dummy for side-impact crashes--the most dangerous type of crash--been approved by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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