As a national health service it contains more data about health than any other comparable health system in the world.

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And for Google, the most data-driven company in the world, having newspapers articles in its search system is no more than small cool stuff.

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Yesterday the court approved a temporary restraining order that prohibits Sabre from disfavoring American flight results in its large overall system, which provides data to travel agents and corporate clients around the world.

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Using that entirely automated system and data from the U.S. Geological Survey, the entire world map was carved in just over two minutes.

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Epic Systems, a data-backup specialist it bought in 1993, helped EMC add the world's fastest open- system backup technology to its arsenal.

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The companies are forming the Global Internet Speedup initiative, a new system for sending data on the Internet to end users faster by locating generally where in the world end users are.

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