More than half of the survey respondents said they have already started implementing real-time data and plan to make greater use of it in 2013 to drive more personalized marketing campaigns, with another 30 percent saying they plan on using it for the first time or consider using it.

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Longer term, we do have a data center rationalization plan for real-time cutover to our Western data center.

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Meanwhile, both Apple, with its Game Center on the iPhone, and Microsoft, with Xbox Live on the upcoming Windows Phone 7, plan to enable real-time multiplayer game networks on their respective platforms as well.

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We plan to have a small team of people that monitors real-time activity on individual pages as well as the site as a whole.

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"He never had any plan, intent or desire to see anyone hurt or killed at any time in real life, " Brill said.

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But whether or not the London organizing committee had chosen to work with a charity-based reseller, the real problem was its failure to set up any type of efficient, secondary market plan ahead of time.

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Kumaratunga proposed a plan to devolve power to Tamil regions, and at the time the idea seemed to hold real promise.

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