With a database of over 75 million user reviews and opinions, TripAdvisor is one of the most popular travel review websites.
By automatically linking a company's edits with a database of its registered trademarks, Wikiwatcher can automatically flag a company editing its own entries.
Mr Molyneux said that commands such as these were interpreted by Milo using voice-recognition software along with a database that attempted to interpret the players intonation and meaning.
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With a database of recordings available for analysis, more sophisticated algorithms could also be developed that may lead to a scoring system for disease progression based on voice alone.
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With a database of approximately 1 million landmarks worldwide, users can enjoy various functions, such as Landmark Navigator which displays the distance to a nearby landmark in the direction the camera is faced towards, and Photo Navigation which displays the distance from the photographer's present location to the place where a tagged photo was taken.
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Instead, Oracle favours three tiers, with a huge database server (possibly a mainframe) at the centre.
With a relational database, you start with the domain objects, and represent them in a way that guarantees that virtually any query can be expressed.
Apple has partnered with Yelp, a highly respected service with a healthy database of its own, but plenty of businesses not aligned with the site may be missing out.
The most recent iteration of the big-ticket package, Oracle's E-Business Suite, is a set of business applications designed to work with a single database.
DNA, for example, it is useful to compare it with a central database (such as GenBank) of existing sequences to see what it resembles.
An important current approach, known as genetic profiling, involves comparing crime scene DNA with that from a suspect or with a profile stored in a database.
First Round Capital is known to do much more, such as a website to connect startups with journalists and a database that rates the service providers whom the startups might tap to run their businesses.
Wal-Mart, with a 24 terabyte database, the world's largest in the private sector, has been a Teradata customer for ten years.
GlaxoSmithkline researchers discovered the gene for Lp-PLA2 a decade ago with the help of a gene database licensed from Human Genome Sciences.
This week, the EU decided to take a similar approach with immigrants, launching a centralised fingerprint database to try to stop asylum-seekers applying for refuge in more than one EU country.
Also, Cassandra, a real-time distributed database with transactional features, is a Hadoop subproject.
It features a 256-color high-resolution touch screen and comes with a pre-installed database of codes for 549 different brands and 17 different product categories.
But, thanks to your official identity and your latest purchase at a store, your information has probably been scooped up into a database with the records of millions of other people who hate technology, too.
After the hearing, the head of the FBI's Boston office, Richard DesLauriers, issued a statement describing the FBI and Boston police department's work together on a joint-terrorism task force, where police detectives had access to a database with the details of the FBI's inquiry into Mr. Tsarnaev.
To achieve this, Facebook says it works with a company, Datalogix, that controls a vast database culled from people's use of loyalty-card programs.
In August 2006 they nabbed their first customer, providing JM Family Enterprises, the largest distributor of Toyotas in the U.S., with a way for employees to check into a centralized database via text messages after hurricanes.
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While all computers are susceptible to attack, a database plump with credit card numbers invites the most shenanigans.
An example is a business with a high-traffic, database-based web site.
Working with a dozen graduate students, Professor Nichols is gathering a database of the language, which is believed to have been spoken in the Caucasus region for about 8, 000 years.
The Association of Chief Police Officers examined a set of homicide and rape cases from last year in which a DNA match had been made with a profile on the national database.
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The French postal service, for example, has used it to help its workers choose the best delivery routes, and pharmaceutical researchers are using it to determine molecular structures by combining their gut instincts with known results stored in a database.
Mr Thomas said water in any mine would be a risk but when the mine operator applies for a licence to work a particular reserve of coal, there is a national database with records showing where that seam had been worked before.
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