The Department for Transport said 170 bids had so far been received for Pinch Point funding.

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Money will come from the second wave of government Pinch Point funding designed to solve local traffic problems.

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The map can show all the ships in the strait and link to Reuters stories about the pinch point.

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The improvements, under the Department for Transport's local pinch point fund include widening Longfield Road from the A21 to the supermarket and replacing T-junctions at the cinema and John Lewis turnings with roundabouts.

BBC: Traffic congestion (generic)

Another IBM acquisition, Tealeaf, allows app developers to monitor how every single user uses an app looking for patterns, do they swipe or pinch, do they get stuck at some point in the app or crash it.

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Plenty of players have found success in pinch-hit roles, but they tend to be veterans who were starters at one point.

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If Microsoft is content to let us do everything with a single point of contact at a time, or at best two points (in the case of pinch and rotate) what good is 10-finger pressure-sensitive multitouch when it comes to navigating an OS or actually getting things done?

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