In the year since the biggest disruption to European air traffic since World War II, KLM has defined new job roles, reorganized its marketing and service functions to support social media and launched a Social Media Hub to handle all incoming requests.
You may think your daily commute might be bad, but drivers in Brussels face the worst traffic jams in the world according to the annual Traffic Scorecard compiled by traffic and navigation service provider INRIX in Kirkland, Wash.
In other words, traffic from Syrians accessing the Internet in the moments before they were cut off from the rest of the world looks remarkably similar to traffic from any part of the world.
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Since these two markets together account for more than half of world traffic, this would be a great achievement.
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The government is also facing bandwidth gridlock as it attempts to switch wireless traffic communications to the world standard 5.9 GHz.
The increased traffic demands are forcing giant telecommunications carriers that carry much of the world's Internet traffic to keep sinking billions of dollars into their networks.
Three of the top five cities ranked as the worst in the world for traffic congestion by a 2012 IBM survey were in the BRIC countries.
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Notwithstanding the terrorist blast in Bali that hurt air traffic to the resort island, Asia remains the world's fastest-growing air traffic market.
After all, they can handle up to 322 terabits of data per second, which is more data traffic than most of the world has ever seen.
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.
Birck takes some comfort from the fact that the bulk of Tellabs' flagship Titan 5500s manage local traffic, where the new world of packet switching is not yet a big threat.
He compared the ex-colonies' traffic with Britain with their traffic with the rest of the world.
In 1868, the world's first traffic lights, built off London's Parliament Square, began operation.
How in the world can our air traffic control system survive if air controllers are working ten percent fewer hours?
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In 2005, the International Telecommunications Union forecast world-wide mobile traffic would increase from around 610 petabytes a year in 2010 to around 1450 petabytes a year in 2020.
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Qidian.com, an online publisher that the company says is among the 30 most visited sites in China and among the top 100 sites in the world in terms of traffic.
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Grass sprouts from the rooftops of tall apartment buildings and lambs can be found grazing on these aerial pastures, the occasional ill-starred creature crossing the border of its tiny world and plummeting into traffic, only to be stolen away almost immediately by a hungry citizen.
In a technology advance that will ultimately help drivers around the world avoid rush hour traffic jams, IBM Research has developed a new predictive modeling tool that will let drivers quickly access personalized travel recommendations to help them avoid congestion, and save time and fuel.
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According to Cisco, global Web traffic surges an average 27% during World Cup matches.
For this means more traffic and traffic means money in an advertising supported world.
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In recent years, former Soviet republics have had some of the world's worst air traffic safety records.
It is now the third busiest airport in the world in terms of freight traffic, with 3, 227, 914 metric tons handled every year.
They provide opportunities for our members, put us on TV for the world to see, generate traffic for our website and generate media coverage.
"If they go ahead with this the UK will be the only country in the world to privatise its air traffic control system, " he added.
Our air traffic congestion is the worst in the world.
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However, in the cut-throat world of airlines where passenger traffic is at a premium, an airline taking such a stance is rare, although they may ask for a supplement.
"There was plenty of speculation Zynga was getting referrals within the Facebook community that other gaming companies weren't getting which helped drive web traffic to Zynga games, " Digital World Research chief executive PJ McNealy said.
Ovi Maps beta adds visibility to subways, trams and trains in 85 cities around the world, real-time traffic, safety alerts in or out of navigation mode, visibility to parking and petrol stations, and speed limit warnings.
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The good news is that WorldCom handles much of the world's Internet and voice traffic.
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