Sentence examples for beacon program from inspiring English sources

1. Programmers at the National Security Agency and in the Israeli military write a "beacon" program that can map out the workings of the plant.

Among online merchants, Overstock.com has decided to stop running Facebook's Beacon program on its site until it becomes an opt-in program.

Blockbuster, the video rental chain that is now virtually defunct, was hit with a class-action suit in 2008 for allegedly sharing rental information with Facebook as part of their much-maligned Beacon program.

Unlike Facebook's Beacon program, which stirred controversy last year when it broadcast its members' purchases to their online friends, most companies do not flash a notice on the screen when they collect data about visitors to their sites.

"Facebook's proposed use of pixel tags to track users offline is almost identical to its 2007 Beacon program.

But now, we've learned, it might be trying to incorporate parts of Facebook's controversial Beacon program into OpenSocial.

Accepting such small class sizes year after year could force the district to shut down one of its elementary schools and would force La Cañada High to cut back on a number of "hallmark, beacon" programs because there's not enough bodies to fill them, said Stratton, who advocates boosting out-of-district enrollment to as much as 15%.

The new capability is courtesy of small open-source puck-like devices called Waze Beacons that were invented in-house by Gil Disatnik, an engineer who now heads up the beacons program.

The Beacons program isn't looking to get help from individual-driver Wazers in this case, but is looking for cities and tunnel owners who might be fans of the service to step up and apply to its program.

The downside is that there is no global option to opt out of every Beacon affiliated program; it has to be set per program.

Many Facebook users, for example, balked when in 2007 it introduced Beacon, a program that shared their online purchases with their social network.