The Index is uniquely based on real travel time data captured by vehicles driving the entire road network.

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Founded by McCaw in 2003, McCaw raised capital in exchange for equity from Sprint, Time-Warner, Intel, Google and others to build its 4G network based on WiMax.

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Hong Kong-based Hutchison got a one-time boost from the sale of its stakes in British cellphone network Orange and Germany's Mannesmann group.

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And this time it appears Flickr finally has the 1000% commitment from Yahoo to become the best photography based network on the planet.

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Pishevar thinks that now that Gmail has a social-network service like Buzz built in, which adds social, real-time and location-based information to the mix, the service becomes an interesting proposition to gamers and developers.

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Like many of my clients with employees who insist on using Apple products you are going to be spending time and money on software to run Windows locally on their MacBooks so that they can access your Windows based network and use your Windows based applications that everyone else is using.

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