There will also be renewed activity in the fast-growing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) community (there are more machines in the world than people), and a new category of devices for stationary types of applications such as video cameras, smart grid applications, smart parking meters, and other devices that will use these new networks.

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He said that Bogota had video recordings and the exact grid coordinates not only of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) camps, but those of the smaller National Liberation Army (ELN).

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Other factors that will increase storage capacity growth are the creation and sharing of user generated content and the growth of machine to machine communication (and thus information storage) such as smart grid networks, video surveillance, big science in astronomy and physics and other emerging automated users of storage capacity.

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