Credentials, tastes, and other forms of data are exchanged, and then the courtship proceeds.
Some apps – Moves being one example – are extending to other forms of data.
Redux allows users to grab streams of TV and radio programmes, or interact with shows, subtitling feeds and other forms of data associated with programmes.
This included using the transition matrices to spot pupils not achieving expected progress and cross-referencing that with other forms of data such as attendance figures to question why.
Most Wi-Fi networks have focused on transfer of e-mail messages and other forms of data from laptop computers but the goal of the three companies is to offer seamless transitions to cellphone users as well.
With text messages, e-mail and other forms of data overtaking voice as the main form of wireless communication, the rule issued in April will preserve competition in a vital communications network.
Apple applied for one of the patents at issue in the HTC case -- for detecting phone numbers and other forms of data -- in 1996, 11 years before the iPhone was released.
The metadata could be used, variously, to determine whether multiple people were together in a particular place; to track the movements of a device; to evoke the breadth and depth of the connections between people; or, combined with other forms of data analysis, to identify the names behind the numbers.
All this will ensure interoperability and do for geodata what the web did for other forms of data, says Carl Reed, the OGC's chief technologist.At the same time, the incorporation of satellite-positioning technology into mobile phones and cars could open the floodgates.
