Wireless phones that have been reported stolen to the carrier will be listed in the database using unique serial numbers associated with mobile gadgets.
If deployed, it means that a passport, for example, could be quickly scanned using the system and its laser speckles recorded and encoded in a unique serial number or onto a database before being issued.
One of the most advanced companies in this area is Wanted Analytics, who aggregates job postings from over 500 job boards and maintains a database of over 600 million unique job listings.
Love insists that Hyseq has a unique gene-finding technology that will help it discover genes that have been missed both by other gene database companies and by the U.S. government-funded Human Genome Project.
Facebook has an enormous database of member-created content from which to search, and that puts it in a unique position relative to Google or Microsoft Bing that search on public websites.