David Walker, senior vice president of logistics, says that electronic monitoring of items from point of origin to the warehouse could boost the chain's operating margin from 11.5% to 12.5%.

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While Data Leak Prevention attempts to provide an overlay of classification, network monitoring, and end point management (for USB devices), there is another approach that uses advanced agents on the desktop that continuously check for abnormal behavior that is indicative of root kits and custom Trojans.

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Public health officials also point out that monitoring of cases is now far better than in previous decades.

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Last month, the United Nations wound up the observer mission that had been tasked with monitoring the ceasefire in Syria under the six-point peace plan negotiated by Mr Annan.

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Untermeyer wanted to dramatically make the point that Philly could save lots of cash by monitoring nonviolent defendants electronically instead of keeping them locked up in prison.

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This twenty third trading week of 2012 comes to a close with investors monitoring events in Greece and Spain while investment banks and exchanges continue to point fingers and answer tough questiosn about the Facebook (FB) IPO.

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Greenpeace's Indradi says Brazil's strong point has been to implement better forest governance, backed up with good monitoring and serious law enforcement.

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