Of course, there are so many people who act counter to this trend across the entire income distribution as to not need comment.

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Videotron's new service supports the trend towards content production and distribution by users via social media such as YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and Blogger.

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Interestingly enough, the distribution of this trend is significantly narrower than that of the IOPS requirement, even though IOPS is a function of latency and bandwidth.

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These two observations are terrific examples of the three segments --accumulation, public participation and distribution--that make up a trend.

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Granted, the music industry grouses about digitalization, but the trend was already upon them and Apple enabled the music industry to manage and benefit from digital distribution.

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