Indeed, EarthLink is not the only company looking to sell bundled voice and data--everyone from the cable companies to the local and long-distance phone giants are fighting hard for customers.
In the end, I believe that wide-area wireless networks will take over the hotspot marketplace and stitch together combination offerings that include both wide-area and local-area high-speed data access.
"This requires a combination of increasingly sophisticated data, self-evaluation and local knowledge, " she said.
From March 2010, all new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will come installed with the new Ovi Maps application and pre-loaded with local country map data and walk and drive navigation with access to location-aware Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.
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In 1993, when William Rouhana, started WinStar--a full-service phone company, offering its customers local, long distance and data services--many scoffed at the idea.
Meanwhile, the home affairs ministry, the would-be guardian of Juki Net's integrity, revealed only last month that a separate data-sharing network it oversees for local governments was easily vulnerable to hackers.
Local data show that 9-year-olds spend about four to five hours on near-work each day.
We also factored in federal unemployment data and median salaries for local college-educated workers, courtesy of Payscale.com.
Travel-time data was gleaned via cars traversing local roads and arterial routes in addition to highways.
Use VoIP with Skype or Fring if you have a flat-rate data plan, or use a local SIM card if you are on shore.
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And we also need to give more community colleges the resources they need to become community career centers -- places where folks can learn the skills that local business are looking for right now, from data management to high-tech manufacturing.
Drilling into the data, Cheung highlighted the risks of over-leveraged local governments, unfunded pension plans and shadow banking.
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Floyd founded Efficient in 1993 with the idea of using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), an industrial-strength packet technology, to route data around local area networks.
We, the people, are opposed to draining billions of dollars of state and local education money to well-connected data-driven vendors who sell smoke and mirrors.
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Just over three years after the High Street giant's demise, 703 of its 807 stores - 87% - are re-occupied, said a report by the Local Data Company (LDC).
You may face charges from the hotel or airport providing internet service, or from the local cellular company if you roam on its data network -- as most non-residents must.
And you would want that in the care you receive, you would want that assurance of a standard being achieved and safety in the systems not a hotch- potch of local practice and incompatible and loss of data as you move from one institution to another.
So far, local businesses have tried to tap into this location-data-love-fest by posting signs in their windows with social media logos begging customers to friend and follow them.
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Decoupling refresh cycles lets data center customers purchase server compute nodes, which are essentially very small motherboards (processor, system memory, boot environment, management, and connection to a local network fabric), separately from rack-level data center network interfaces (1GbE and 10GbE), separately from mass storage (hard disks and solid-state drives).
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Others may look at a more comprehensive monthly economic data set detailing sales of various local industries from past years to the event-week or event-month(s) in question.
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The parish council also claimed the council's Homechoice housing register had "exaggerated" the local housing need, but the court ruled the data simply provided "an indication of local housing need" for the decision-makers.
She zeroed in on how, despite New York City's success with the CompStat crime-reduction system, the influence of empirical data has barely trickled down to the local level.
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William Lester, and Michael Reich, for example, use county-level data over a 16.5 year period to examine the impact of local differences in minimum wages on employment in restaurants, which primarily hire low-skilled workers.
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Hundreds of public bodies, including local councils, can request communications data, including when and to whom e-mails are sent and phone calls made.
Cox Business is a facilities-based provider of voice, video and data solutions for commercial customers, and Cox Media is a full-service provider of national and local cable spot and new media advertising.
Google has rolled out applications that enhance shopping on-the-go including indoor maps as well as mobile coupons and targeted local search with rich data such as inventory, store hours, and consumer reviews.
The map displays data about many USDA grants, loans and programs that support local and regional food systems during 2009-2011, including Farm Service Agency, Farmers Market Nutrition Program, and Seasonal High Tunnel initiative data.
However even with data center developments such as compression, virtualization and deduplication the costs of on-line storage exceed that of local storage and the performance of on-line storage is significantly less than local storage.
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The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder of the ill-fated plane are yet to be recovered, Ria Novosti reported at 02:15 local time on Thursday.
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The national data obscure the fact that some local markets have clearly tightened (that is, with rents rising and home-value gains) while others continue to have excess vacant stock.
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