The research firms did not collect data for Windows, Symbian or Blackberry games.
Clinical research also costs more because of the need to get HIPAA waivers to look at charts to collect data for studies.
Street View cars, used to collect data for location-based products like Google Maps, mistakenly collected samples of payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
FORBES: Multistate Probe Of Google Street View Could Spell Big Legal Headaches For Search Giant
Take, for example, the pile of "loyalty cards" and key tags that stores require you to carry around so that you get a supposed "discount" while they collect data for personalizing your promotional experience in the store.
The hospital's offer to pay most of the cost of electronic records software is contingent upon doctors' agreeing to have the hospital host the records and collect clinical data for measuring quality.
Google, for example, currently hires drivers to operate cars that collect images and data for its Street View mapping product.
For example, Amazon can run a multivariate test in a matter of minutes, where a smaller site with lower traffic volumes might take weeks or months to collect the necessary data for optimization.
"We need to collect data to conduct business for all sorts of reasons, " says Gartner Group analyst Alexander Linden.
We for instance collect data with two or three ideas in mind in terms of what we want to examine and test with them.
FORBES: Publication Bias (or, Why You Can't Trust Any of the Research You Read)
Global efforts to collect and analyze scientific data also allow for the development of the predictive capacity for climate change and the ocean responses, and provide scientific support to governments to mitigate the losses caused by marine hazards.
From embedded Java on devices, up to Oracle engineered systems in the data center and Big Data analytical tools, Oracle provides a practical device-to-data center platform that makes it easy for organizations to collect, store, manage, and efficiently analyze data collected via connected devices.
FORBES: Robot Data Collectors: How to Win in a Device-to-Data Center World
While they allow for doctors to collect valuable data, many of these devices were distributed without any type of encryption or defensive mechanisms in place.
FORBES: Yes, You Can Hack a Pacemaker (and Other Medical Devices Too)
It took four arduous months for Spriggs to collect his data in the form of 600 loose papers, many handwritten, from doctors and hospitals in Chicago, Fort Collins, Co.
FORBES: A Graphic Use Of Drugs: How One Patient Visualized His Health Data
On April 4th it emerged that federal prosecutors in New Jersey are examining how software applications for smartphones collect and share data, amid suspicions that privacy laws have been broken in some cases.
ECONOMIST: A large theft of company e-mail lists causes controversy
Jeffrey Chester, president of the Center for Digital Democracy, argued that telecoms would be tempted to sell the consumer data they collect in the process of that surveillance or use it for advertising.
Remote or autonomous systems can collect a far greater volume of useful scientific data for far less money.
But Facebook Home, running in the background on your phone, will make it easier for the company to quietly collect data on everything you do.
Before Barr allows her two young children to use an app, she tests it thoroughly so she knows whether it can collect data or contains advertising that might be inappropriate for kids.
In order to design and run a successful clinical trial, it is crucial for the actual investigators to collect the data themselves and not rely on information gathered by other groups.
Badgett, director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Williams Institute scholar Jody L. Herman reported that for 11 states that have some form of legal partnership for same-sex couples, and for which they were able to collect data, on average just over 1% of the couples split each year.
This means it costs more to collect the data to report to Medicare than one can earn for collecting it.
Last week, OnStar issued a privacy notice informing customers that it would continue to collect data on vehicles still connected to its servers, even for those who have already canceled their subscriptions.
ENGADGET: Senator Schumer blasts OnStar for 'brazen' privacy violation, calls for FTC investigation
The data they collect will be anonymous, they say, and for the purposes of improving the shopper experience.
FORBES: Why Stalking Your Customers Via Their Mobile Phones is Not a Good Idea
The letter poses eight questions for Google about the data the gadget will collect about users and non-users.
They may want more control over what companies do with the data they collect, and they will expect something in exchange for providing it.
But in a recent conversation with The Wall Street Journal, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said the agency was interested in whether online companies obtain users' consent for changes in how they use data they collect.
One thing is certain: the natural gas industry must be forthcoming and honest about the risks that unconventional oil and gas development create, proactive in taking the steps necessary to minimize those risks, and willing to collect and publicly disclose the data necessary to enable communities to evaluate for themselves whether their health and environment are being fully protected.
The FTC specifically recommended that the platforms provide a designated space for developers to disclose their information in the app stores and markets and that the platforms improve enforcement of requirements for app developers to disclose the private data they collect.
ENGADGET: New privacy policy standards agreed to by world's major app store owners
The AMS will collect 7 gigabytes of data per second and beam the information down to Earth for analysis.
FORBES: Endeavour's Final Liftoff Takes Antimatter Detector Into Space
应用推荐