And after they spent 18 months visiting various companies and testing secure chat, phone and text products, they chose Silent Circle.

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According to state-run Agencia Brasil, the vote was rescheduled for next Tuesday so the government can try to secure support for the current text.

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"The use of text-mining algorithms was critical in this endeavor and helped secure a complete picture that would not have been available using traditional market research, " says Michael Cavaretta, Ford's technical leader for predictive analytics and data mining.

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