There are many types of servers (for recommendation, load balancing, streaming to different devices, search queries, page servers, caching etc) spread over several locations all over the world, file types and formats for a plethora of consumer devices based on resolution, type of device, bandwidth of the consumer and the hardware capability.
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It will force individuals to acknowledge the pains of a world tethered to file servers, desktops, and on-premise software.
Microbloggers can continue using nicknames as their online identities, as long as the weibo providers have their real-world identities on file.
We live in a Wikipedia world, where file-sharing and blurry notions of personal privacy have, for some young people, made the idea of proprietary knowledge seem like a foreign, almost ridiculous, concept.
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The Pirate Bay, a free-to-use service supported by advertising, with an estimated 22m users, has become one of the world's biggest file-sharing sites.
From what I understand now, in the world of 3D modeling three file types exists: 1.
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Authorities around the world have been cracking down on file-sharing and copyright infringement, and The Pirate Bay is one of the biggest targets, especially since the Federal Raid on Megaupload.com.
With all this free trade and trade barriers falling, it's really hard for an individual like me with a global-scope patent to file all over the world and get patent protection everywhere, and having to go overseas to fight infringement.
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They tackled problems like "flash crowds" (which can overwhelm computers storing a Web page or videoclip that suddenly is popular around the world) and the "fat file paradox": Why does data traveling at the speed of light often take such a long time to make it across the country?
Novartis said it plans to file with regulatory agencies around the world seeking approval for Afinitor to treat metastatic breast cancer.
According to a report on national competitiveness by the World Economic Forum, the French rank and file has a much stronger work ethic than American, British or Dutch employees.
File a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization.
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The moral of this story is that information hoarding in order to leverage Big Data tools may work in the structured data world, but will not work in the broader information world that includes unstructured content (the Word file, PowerPoint presentations, CAD files, audio files, and other large data types that dominate corporate information stores).
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Skype, which now has more than 663 million registered users world-wide, traces its roots to a file-sharing program, Kazaa, that grew popular for exchanging pirated music soon after its launch in 2001.
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Reform would bring the U.S. patent system in line with the rest of the world by granting patents on a "first-to-file" rather than a "first-to-invent" basis.
And, if so, has he both the evidence and the stomach to file a broad Sherman act antitrust case against the world's most powerful software company?
Sounds ingenious, the problem is the technology is patented, expensive, difficult to achieve in real-world manufacturing, unreliable and easily defeated by anyone with a nail file.
Anyway, we'll be talking more about the high-tech license plates on "Marketplace" later today, and we'll also be looking at another development in the business world: how the music industry is creating a new business model using file-sharing networks.
Viber Media was founded in 2010 by the same people who started iMesh, the world's longest-standing P2P client and the first to offer authorized file-sharing.
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The French government's anti-piracy policy is being closely scrutinised by other countries around the world as they consider their own policies to deal with the issue of illegal file-sharing.
"Most file-sharing programs aren't the most upstanding citizens of the computing world, " Pegorraro says.
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The site, which has been blamed for encouraging illegal file-sharing, will now operate from cloud-hosting providers around the world.
And what else is in the Mulcaire file about the techniques that many find truly shocking about how the News of the World behaved as though the only thing that mattered was landing the story, and never mind how it was obtained?
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