Passenger numbers are already growing faster than Virgin predicted and they should grow even faster by 2005 when Virgin plans to run trains every 15 minutes between London and Birmingham, taking just over an hour for the journey.

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WestClinTech has built XLeratorDB which can operate refined Excel calculations and a lot of new financial calculations inside SQL Server where they can run up to 100 times faster than Excel and are fully protected by server security.

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The researchers told the students to rate, on a seven-point scale, how much faster than normal they would run in each notional race, with a one being slightly faster than normal and a seven being the fastest of their lives.

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While the apps don't look different from Facebook's previous versions, they run substantially faster, a critical improvement to help keep users on the mobile app and serve them more ads.

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