Twitter, like all major online sites collects our usage data and makes certain assumptions about us.
Of course, no one really knew what that meant since Apple pretty much refused to share usage data with publishers.
It works by using myriad user info, including location, web browsing and mobile app usage data "to create specific insights" -- i.e.
Attempting to lend verisimilitude to his analysis, Benbrook states repeatedly that his analysis is based on official, government (USDA) pesticide usage data.
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The EcoHub app works by pulling overall home energy usage data, provided by an energy data source, such as a utility or smart meter company.
It comes after the revelation Friday that, until recently, Bloomberg reporters had special access to client usage data and sought to use it to break stories.
One tech exec I know, with a lot of usage data at his fingertips, told me flat out that the two platforms have different kinds of users.
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Consumer companies are exploring smart vending machines that have tiny computers on a wireless network which leverage information like usage data and weather forecasts to determine replenishment schedules.
With ComScore Web-usage data and public financial filings, it's now possible to figure out how much revenue the two rivals collect for every hour that each user spends on the site.
Another potentially game-changing perk of analyzing product usage data is that it generates great feedback for your product and engineering teams, which can lead them to build even more desired products.
However, it's the future uses we're more excited about -- eventually, you'll be able to upload energy usage data into the system automatically, provided you're getting voltage from one of the partner companies.
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If we expose these hidden costs, consumers will be able to make informed data usage decisions and app developers will be incentivized to be mindful of data usage and to build data-efficient apps.
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Other interesting figures Pincus mentioned: Zynga tracks more than a pedabyte (1 million gigabytes) of player usage data every day, adds 1, 000 servers to support its games per week and currently uses more than 20, 000 servers.
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In addition to a 30-day overview of users' app data usage, Onavo Count also gives users individual App Profiles, complete with charts that track weekly data usage and gauges that measure individual app's overall mobile data usage.
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For example, a number of companies provide tailored advice for individuals about how to save money on their electricity bills based on their own energy usage data, which is made available through the Administration-catalyzed, industry-led Green Button initiative.
ComScore ( SCOR - news - people ) Web-usage data and public financial filings, it's now possible to figure out how much revenue the two rivals collect for every hour that each user spends on the site.
In order to access this rich stream of transaction and usage data and remain competitive, all product companies will have to think about technologies that bridge the offline and online worlds to provide a suite of compelling digital services around the physical things they make.
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Launching in early 2012, this yet-to-be-name app will allow 800 million Facebook users to pull home energy usage data provided by their utility provider (the non-Oprah-Winfrey-related Opower works with a growing network of more than 60 utility companies across the country) and share it, warts and all, with fellow Facebookers.
Similarly, the Green Button team at the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Standards and Technology is working collaboratively with industry to enable millions of residential and commercial energy customers to securely download and share their own energy usage data in a standardized human-readable and machine-readable format directly from their utilities.
Verizon has new plans that make payment for extra data usage very explicit: users buy monthly data usage buckets in 1-2 gigabyte (GB) increments, and this data charge is a large part of the bill.
The increasing usage of data and continued market buildouts from the 700MHz spectrum auctions, says Moorman, will provide an additional boost to revenues over the next couple of years.
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Toshiba believes that this product can create a dedicated flash based hardware engine for content delivery that reduces the costs and lowering power usage and data center footprint when the product is available later this year.
Founded in 2009, the service aggregates anonymized data, such as mobile phone usage and other data.
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With the wireless industry getting more saturated, the focus has shifted from acquiring new subscribers to increasing the data usage of the existing subscriber base, and hence data ARPUs.
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And, data usage is highly skewed: a small group of very intensive data users tie up the network and degrade service for moderate users, who paid the same price.
Even without considering the additional sustainability benefits to be achieved from the scale and efficiency of commercial data centres, or the proactive monitoring of energy usage, private data centres can potentially quadruple utilisation to 80 per cent with only a 50 per cent increase in power consumption.
So heavy are the current energy demands of our expanding data usage that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pegged servers and data centers as responsible for nearly two percent of total national electricity consumption.
At the time, Verizon pledged to provide consumers with more information about their data usage.
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And with Onavo, iPhone users can now finally understand their apps' data usage by keeping Count!
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For corporations, monitoring fluctuations in mobile data usage is becoming an ever more crucial task.
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