The usage time is logged when a bicycle is returned to a dock, with additional charges if the bikes have been out past the allotted time.
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That chip, along with the custom charging circuitry developed by OLPC and Marvell means that the tablet can be charged by a hand crank at a 10:1 ratio (10 minutes of usage time for every minute spent cranking), or by the optional four watt solar panel cover at a 2:1 ratio on sunny days.
Caught between rising competition from P2P sharing and big rental companies, Zipcar may suffer slower growth in its membership and usage over time.
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The paper also tracked word usage through time (each year, for instance, 1% of the world's English-speaking population switches from "sneaked" to "snuck").
Location information and images of kids collected by phones would be considered personal information, the commission said, as would data that could be used to track device usage over time, especially if that data then informs targeted advertising.
So while we have the sophisticated tools to measure real-time usage, and communicate with customers in real time, we also had the capability to notify customers that events were likely.
With Nucleus, people can see their energy usage in real time through a PC or a smartphone application.
More than a decade ago, a Forbes Magazine cover story took a look at how businesses and customers jockeyed over time usage.
Operators would need to transmit more messages internally to bill for usage across each subscriber and device, and track the aggregate usage in real time.
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The subway network, known as the Tube, will be congested and may break the all-time usage record of 4.31 million passengers set on 2 August 2012.
Instead, for every customer who wants real-time usage information, a truck roll and on-site coordination with the incumbent utility is required, costing thousands of dollars per transaction.
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They will have access to real-time usage statistics and topic trending data so they can meet the needs of both the larger Forbes audience and those news enthusiasts following them.
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They should be thinking about how to position themselves at the center of the energy information network, supplying the pricing and real-time usage information to the customer and his or her machines.
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The trends clearly show usage grows over time.
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That led to less PGM usage during that time, but Winmill said auto production elsewhere in the world would make up for it and thus there would ultimately not be any knock-on demand for the metals.
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Some TV executives and analysts suggest that online video, tablet computers and wider use of digital-video recorders could be pulling prime-time viewers to other places and times that aren't counted in prime-time usage figures, although many also caution it is too early in the TV season to draw any broad conclusions.
"These customers have zero ability to connect their usage to real-time pricing, " says Guthridge.
Because the platform cannot easily access real-time electricity usage information from the utilities, even where smart meters exist.
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That battery life included regular usage of features besides time.
For the first time, users can view all computers, tablets, phones and other connected devices on the home's network-as well as the applications they are using, and the real-time bandwidth usage of each application and device-on one easy-to-use StreamBoost interface.
And while the Dutch airline started regularly using recycled cooking oil on some commercial flights between Amsterdam and Paris in June 2011, this latest usage represents the first time biofuels will be used on a regular weekly schedule on transatlantic flights.
While Earth-Policy says that hybrids could slash U.S. gasoline use in half, it also points out that the same usage of plug-in hybrids over the same period of time could result in gasoline usage being cut by 70 percent.
Although the amount of time Americans whittle away online is rising (up three hours per week in 2011), social media usage has dipped for the first time, down 10 percent in 2012 from 2011, with Generation X and baby boomers leading the decrease, the report says.
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ADS-B is a big step toward what the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration calls "free flight, " in which commercial pilots will be free to determine their own routes to minimize time and fuel usage.
The demo we saw showed reasonable performance here, but we still have a difficult time finding a usage scenario that involves us using this particular feature (especially when it's ever-present in a wide variety of phones and tablets now).
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With respect to freemium, fancy can mean more features, more usage, more seats, more time, or no advertisements.
Several utilities are conducting pilot programs that use Home Area Networks (HAN), the household-facing layer of technology, to provide customers with real-time information on electricity usage and prices.
With improved visibility to real time stock and promotion usage, you could even change the promotion to increase offers if you have excess stock in a location near to the customer.
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