Apple needs a low cost collation to address that market and provide an entry point for the majority of Chinese mobile phone buyers.

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Students might not know the results of any re-grading until mid-October - and the collation of school results could not begin until grades had been finalised.

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Much of the failure can be ascribed to an old-fashioned lack of informants and poor collation of existing information, though restrictive laws on wiretapping and other surveillance methods cannot have helped.

ECONOMIST: Government reaction

Assistant Director Mr Alan Hanna said his organisation was a strong supporter of the bill but did acknowledge that there were areas that could be strengthened, such as the need for the collation of data.

BBC: Health Committee

But it raised concerns about the electronic counting system used in London, including the advanced technical knowledge needed to understand and scrutinise the system and errors in transmitting results to the central collation area at City Hall.

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To guard against expected cheating in the second round, opposition activists dispatched observers to each of more than 11, 000 polling stations, who then text-messaged voting counts to their own collation centre in Dakar, using independent communications links run from a computer server outside the country.

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