And cloud based services like Flickr and Twitter are producing massive quantities of detailed (location specific) user data that is available for anyone to mine (as allowed by their users).
Also, there is location specific information for other countries.
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James Politeski, Samsung's senior vice president for home appliances, said these apps are "location specific, " meaning they're designed to be useful to people who are in the kitchen and looking at the refrigerator.
There might be some value to a specific location, yes, or specific improvement or quality of land.
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Android phone users can now access location-specific maps of select airports, museums, malls, and department stores.
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Search by activity, location or specific farm product in the US and Canada.
Recent members of Foursquare are jumping into the location-based network for social recommendations and the promise of location-specific rewards.
Read location-specific travel guides before you go to learn about the ease or difficulty of using a credit card at your destination.
In fact, simply shopping for property can present location-specific difficulties, Kraft says.
Social media sites like Twitter are being monitored for real-time, location-specific impact to individuals and communities to deliver situational intelligence to emergency response teams as quickly as possible.
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The applications received by Monday, which must work successfully on an "emulator" or computer model of Android, likely run the gamut from productivity to entertainment, with plenty of games, location-specific services and applications aimed at helping keep people organized.
Dr Blobel hypothesised, and then proved, that each of these location-specific proteins is created with a tag that tells it where to go or, rather, latches on to the place it is supposed to be in when it gets there.
Understanding that this data is even more useful in real time, we developed a smartphone app that allows users to explore a great deal of location-specific data (and to find out, for example, whether money is walking to or from their own MSA).
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The keys are hidden in the car in a specific location that borrowers only know.
Maps also gathers images for a specific location and displays those snapshots via a carousel down below.
But at times they reveal a more specific location: You know this is somewhere in Latin America.
Installation costs will vary though, depending on how much work needs to be done at each specific location.
If you want to check the wind speeds in a specific location an anemometer will tell you all you need to know.
Future premiums will reflect risk (tied both to specific location and expected climate change) so individuals are aware of the hazard they face.
In practical terms, this will mean that developers will need to develop China-specific location-based services, which routinely access map services sanctioned by the Chinese government.
Customers can check the Sprint Worldwide Coverage and Rates page to check coverage in the specific location they plan to travel and find voice, text, and data rates.
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"If a camera has been installed at a specific location, it is there for a very good reason - to prevent accidents and deter motorists from speeding, " he said.
Rather than depicting a specific location, Ensor offers a telling amalgam and carnivalesque inversion of an entire genre that, as articulated by the French poet Charles Baudelaire, celebrated the spectacle of modern urban life.
Das avoided publishing its specific location.
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The new, free iPhone application will streamline the process by allowing New Yorkers to report complaints to 311 using a program that identifies the user, determines the specific location of the condition reported using GPS technology, and allows easy uploads of photos.
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If it senses that you've fixed your gaze on a specific location for more than a few seconds, a nose-bridge mounted HD camera will take a 50 x 50 pixel snapshot and compare it to its image database -- much like Google Goggles.
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That explains why some start-ups are trying to make money by getting firms to partner with them on direct promotions that reward users for specific actions, such as presenting them with a discount coupon via their phone screen if they check in to a specific location.
Internet phone systems route calls to a particular computer on the Internet, not to a specific physical location.
Specifically on facemasks, currently they can only remove these in a specific geographical location and for a limited time.
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