Traffic data is included here for free, though the phone warns you that you may wind up seeing a few ads mixed in from time to time to cover it. (We didn't see any during the course of this review.) If traffic is noticed anywhere along or near your route the phone will throw up an indicator to warn you.
While a battery-shaped indicator lights up to show remaining battery capacity, the mile range indicator fluctuates wildly as it constantly projects how far you can go if you continue on your present course.
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After snapping five panoramas ranging from 12 to 120 shots apiece, the low battery indicator popped up.
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No number of polled opinions, Tancer insists, will ever add up to a reliable indicator of what consumers want.
Moreover, it'll dial 911 and alert your relatives should you get in an accident, and perhaps most intriguingly, it'll send full diagnostic reports to your iPhone whenever a warning indicator lights up.
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Gas prices increased nearly 7%, but food prices, an inflationary indicator, moved up only 0.3%.
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Online companies pounce on every whisper or cryptic comment from Google about how it ranks pages as an indicator--up or down--of how online traffic will flow for millions of Web sites.
Second, we see consumer confidence improving, with car sales, always a good indicator of that, up significantly.
According to Peter DeLongchamps, vice president manufacturer relations at Group 1 Automotive, one indicator of pent-up demand is the fact that scrappage rates have exceeded new-vehicle sales in recent months.
If the discussion yesterday is any indicator, we are definitely up for the job.
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If yes, then it might well also be an indicator that a pick-up in hiring will soon follow.
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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, said Monday that their Composite Leading Indicator (CLI) inched up to 97.9 for India in November compared to 97.8 in October.
While the sell-outs are a good indicator of the pent-up demand that Nokia and Microsoft have managed to create prior to the Lumia launch and is in line with our long-term view of the company, investors should be careful not to read too much into the news for we have no idea what the actual sales number are.
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This suggests that a rapid build-up of stocks can be an early warning indicator of slowdown, if not recession.
Importantly, same store sales, an important indicator for any retail player moved up 1% versus expectations of a 1.4% decline by Wall Street, and a 2% decline in the prior quarter.
While only 5% of employers said they'll include signing bonuses with their offers, Mr. Gardner views this as the leading edge of a trend and an indicator that wages will likely go up soon.
Stock Trader's Almanac founder Yale Hirsch is credited with coming up with the "first five days" indicator, which essentially says that the direction of the first five days of January is predictive of January, which can have bullish implications for the rest of the year.
Electricity production, the most reliable indicator of Chinese economic activity, was up only 2.7% over the same month last year.
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Look for more paralysis impacting the stock market down and the bond market up, as interest rates decline as a leading indicator of a slowdown that is bound to be unpleasant for everyone but the super-rich.
No, this is a fancy backlit indicator, one that doesn't light up at all until you thumb the dedicated performance switch on the machine's right side.
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In fact, so closely are growth and emissions linked that one commentator, Forbes' Jeff McMahon, has a post up whose title suggests we could use emissions as an indicator of economic activity.
Employment is a lagging indicator and cannot improve much until the economy picks up.
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Numeracy, for example, is a good indicator of whether or not a homebuyer will wind up in foreclosure.
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But the key here is that the ratio of outbound to inbound searches went up from 2011 to 2012, which is an early leading indicator that outbound migration might be accelerating, too.
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Another indicator of strengthening China and Asian markets is the Baltic Dry Index, up over 1, 000 in less than 48 hours, and rising from 663 four weeks ago.
Yet the Super Bowl Stock Market Indicator - and a variety of other investment strategies - have nonetheless sprung up around the country's most popular sporting event, which is expected to be watched by more than 173 million Americans.
That may not be particularly rough for a stock up more than 44% over the last 12 months, but it is an indicator of the high expectations the market has for housing-related stocks after a big 2012, and the potential pain when those expectations are not met.
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And then, before you start using my perceived tone as a contrary indicator, let me say that I am not suggesting that things will be up-up-and-away from here.
Still, Apple shares remain up 25% for the year to date and if recent iPhone 4S sales are any indicator, the company shows no signs of slowing down.
The February jobs report is but one more indicator that labor markets, which have gone sideways for a while, are slowly creeping up.
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