If you've also received a tracking number, however, your device is likely to be in the mail.
Through a UPS arrangement with 3Com, he can click on the UPS shield on the latest Palm VII handheld computer, enter a UPS tracking number and immediately learn the whereabouts of his goods.
"They all find out that you opened the mail and they get an invisible tracking number, so if you go to a store ... that number is reported to them and they can build that information into a database, " Catlett said.
The Google site solves this problem by tracking the number of times people search for flu-related terms online.
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The group relies on a network of Syria-based activists that have been tracking the number of dead, injured and missing since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011.
Coincidentally, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been accurately tracking the number of strong tornadoes for decades (weaker tornadoes are not accurately tracked, because older technology could not detect many of the smaller tornadoes that can be detected today).
But regulators already face an immense task tracking the huge number of websites touting for financial business.
The suppliers of bond ETFs get around the liquidity problem by using representative sampling, which simply means tracking only a sufficient number of bonds to represent an index.
Chicago-based startup revolutionizes the way people go out at night by automatically tracking and revealing the number of people in a bar, the male-to-female ratio, and the average age of each customer, in real-time, with no need for user participation.
Intelligence officials had locked on to him when he made a phone call to a number they were tracking.
At the end of any day in which you shopped for the holidays just add up our receipts, write that number on your tracking sheet and subtract from the total.
Routinely tracking family history sharply boosted the number of people in the study considered at high risk for heart disease.
The authors of the study, who have been tracking this trust issue for a number of years, have identified three unmet needs.
Kent says the number of confirmed exhibitors is tracking about 30% higher than where it was this time last year.
The astronauts actually beamed higher-quality footage back to Earth -seen by a small number of people at three tracking stations.
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He added: ''That's why in order to get through the licensing process Nipper had to be tested in a number of key areas - tracking, searching, bite work, agility and obedience.
His microblog is among a number of sites that have been tracking the government's response to the new bird flu.
Leader Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone, number two Cingular is an SBC-BellSouth collaboration and number four Sprint PCS is a tracking stock of Sprint.
Yet while the sessions are brief, the game is designed to offer a sense of progress by tracking the distance players have run and the number of coins they've picked up.
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The house, as evidenced by the 3, 000 largest U.S. public companies, in February for the first time since we started tracking monthly float six months ago shrank the number of shares outstanding at a 1.3% annual rate, compared with a 1.3% share growth rate in January and a 3% annual growth rate in the number of shares last October.
The WFP said it is "fast-tracking" the aid to Haiti and tripling the number of Haitians who can receive food.
This is a big shift for a brand which had been steadily increasing in perception since we began tracking it in mid-2007 and placed at number six on our 2011 half-year ranking of the brands with the most Buzz.
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The number of EMS teams and ambulances is not tracking with the growth in population.
Tracking food-borne disease is also complicated by the number of illnesses thought to be caused by unknown pathogens.
Fund tracking site Kicktraq showed that after an initial surge the number of people backing the project tailed off dramatically.
They also asked for help in tracking a silver Toyota Hiace 300 GS van, registration number CX06 ASV, which had travelled from Wellington to Oswestry, Shropshire, before going to Rhyl, Chester, Cumbria and then to Glasgow.
Those being affected by spam and the number of spammer accounts escaping detection are "not tracking in an upward direction, " says Del Harvey, Twitter's head of trust and safety.
He said that the FBI had worked with a number of European countries, including Britain, in tracking down the scheme - one of the most financially destructive yet seen.
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Our tracking of defaults since 1983 has shown that, in the overwhelming number of cases, once an issuer misses the first interest or principal payment to the trustee subsequent payments will be missed as well.
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The U.N. says it doesn't know the exact number of people living with HIV and AIDS, and that estimated number released this year may be the result of better tracking information vs. an actual decline in infections.
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