Although the instant reporting of locations (pull requests) is essential, in many situations, users want to be notified about some kind of location related event, i.e., push requests.
He nonetheless landed a job on Wall Street, where he persuaded his bosses to give him $1 million for minicomputers — the cutting edge of computing before personal computers — that could deliver the first instant reports on how business was doing.
Now, a team of people who speak Arabic and other languages monitors news reports by computer and on large flat-screen TVs, producing an instant report on the "hot issues" overseas and suggested messages to counter the bad news.
On Saturday, after a week of escalating protests over Twitter's response to the threats, Tony Wang, Twitter's UK general manager, and Del Harvey, director of trust and safety, posted a promise of action on the Twitter UK blog, including instant report buttons for abuse to be gradually introduced on different platforms.
Instead he simply set up a few queries to generate an instant report.
It takes about 30 minutes, and you receive an instant report that shows your real age vs. your physical age.
However, as demonstrated by the Piers Morgan and Fox News Twitter hacker incidents, there are major concerns about the accuracy of instant reporting by Twitter and social media.
Team Fox tried this strategy during the 2009 NYC Marathon and used Textmarks.com to update its runners during the day and receive instant reports about how the race went.
Compare them to the instant, superficial reporting of the mass media, and you can see the importance of diplomatic dispatches not only for giving Washington the background and nuance to a given situation, but also for providing a reliable historical record of major global events.
Enhancing surveillance systems, providing a mechanism of instant reporting to the proper officials, educating healthcare providers and others in the community, and strengthening knowledge of thorough outbreak investigation will improve collective preparedness for a bioterrorism.
Even without cameras, there is instant reporting from the courtroom.
