We look at signals like tips, likes, dislikes, popularity, loyalty, local expertise, and nearly 3 billion check-ins from over 25 million people worldwide.
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"BAA provides a free service up to the point of check-in when the airlines take over and they provide assistance from the check-in to the aircraft", a BAA spokeswoman told BBC News Online.
Mr Blair could then find himself on the wrong side of the argument: knocking down the hereditaries but obstructing calls for an upper house that is elected and therefore better able to check the over-mighty Commons.
Foursquare, the location-sharing site, that has now more than 15 million users, over 4 million check-ins daily, and is the hub of 600, 000 merchants.
Jesper Andersen, the developer behind anti-social networking app Avoidr, discovered a security flaw in Foursquare that allowed him to monitor 875, 000 check-ins in San Francisco over the past three weeks, Wired reports.
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Among the retailers we tracked, Best Buy had the greatest proportional increase in check-ins during Black Friday and over the course of the weekend, which translated into a noticeable bump in its stock immediately after the weekend.
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Some patients tell me that they are so connected that even before brushing their teeth or making coffee, they will roll over to check their phone- when a more appropriate choice may be to spend a few extra minutes in bed with their loved ones.
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Neither the consumer nor the business owner are getting the full value of the check-in because the tips and recommendations are scattered over numerous identities.
Grocery shoppers will hardly relish being stuck in a queue behind someone agonising over their investments, and most check-out clerks would be unqualified to offer advice.
William Wood had failed to check on Kieran Nichol overnight - despite noting he looked "over-sedated".
You can even pull over to check your email with the in-car 3G wifi.
"So I called my son over and asked him to double-check this, and he looks it through and goes, 'Yep, looks like a winner, '" Cereza said.
Last year, GetGlue hit the 2 million user milestone and logged 100 million check-ins, which represents a 1000 percent increase year-over-year for a site that launched in 2009.
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Until then, check a side-by-side test done by the cats over at Animation World Network pitting a prototype Alexa against a RED One equipped with a new MysteriumX sensor and software.
About 750, 000 jobs in IT, finance and business services are expected to be outsourced by 2016, and automation is having a similar cumulative toll, particularly at the lower end of the pay scale, where grocery check-out clerks have been replaced by electronic scanners, and over 250, 000 postal workers have already lost their jobs due to automation of mail processing.
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The check engine light of my 2003 Mazda MPV turned on over 6-months ago, and I never had the time to actually get it checked, even less fixed!
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The government has rejected calls to abolish GCSEs, but ministers believe they "will over time evolve into a progress check" at the mid-point of the 14 to 19 phase of education.
We are trying to check out the statistics on C-difficile but, for the moment, over to Cardiff Bay, where a Welsh government source says Mr Lansley has said all this before.
Meanwhile I think some consumers will balk at sharing all the personal information they have to share with Facebook and the huge data use charges they will have to fork over when they check Facebook when not connected to a Wi-Fi network.
Voyager Systems sells the government high-speed wireless devices that can run a quick background check on a suspect over multiple credit and criminal databases.
Over the weekend, there were flight delays, problems at check-in kiosks, airport lines and long wait times to reach reservations agents on the phone.
Some commitments (my pay check) were of a short-term nature, others (pension accrual) run over the whole length of my employment.
In a talk that was at times nostalgic, Crowley showed how Foursquare had evolved over the last 4 years from an app that looked to gamify check-in into a location layer that could allow the company to build predictive searches.
Just over a year ago, my wife wrote a small check for an end-of-the-year school function of some sort.
The Letter Logger can be programmed to check its position every few minutes, over longer intervals, or only when a built-in motion detector senses movement, says Jude Daggett, of TrackingTheWorld.
Enterprise does a special insurance check to make sure a customer's policy transfers over, though in some cases credit cards also provide rental-car insurance.
When they get a quarter of the way around the track, you check to see if you're on the leading horse--and if you're not, you jump over to another one.
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