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FMA releases report into insurance sales and advice: Insurance replacement business - who benefits? (Financial Markets Authority)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jun 2016
The Financial Markets Authority is calling for cooperation from the life insurance industry and financial advisers to address the potential harms to consumers from the relatively high levels of switching of existing insurance policies ... This switching activity is called 'replacement business.'. The report uses extensive data from 12 life insurance providers, gathered and analysed over the past 12 months....

Avaya Software-Defined Networking 1.0 — Doing it differently (Avaya Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jun 2016
Analytics as defined by Deloitte Analytics in their report titled , is the practice of using data to manage information and performance, and has been around for at least 30 years, guiding cause and effect scenarios in almost every industry, any size business ... Rather all data will feed into what's called a data lake, which aggregates raw data in multiple formats. From the lake, the data then gets sourced into the four analytics buckets....

Avaya Software-Defined Networking 1.0 — Doing it differently (Avaya Italia SpA)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jun 2016
Analytics as defined by Deloitte Analytics in their report titled , is the practice of using data to manage information and performance, and has been around for at least 30 years, guiding cause and effect scenarios in almost every industry, any size business ... Rather all data will feed into what's called a data lake, which aggregates raw data in multiple formats. From the lake, the data then gets sourced into the four analytics buckets....

Can app find next ‘Harry Potter’?

Edit The Oklahoman 29 Jun 2016
But during the last year, the Silicon Valley upstarts have been making a bold pitch to Hollywood — use data to find the next “Harry Potter.” ... Why would studio executives care about a fiction app for the Snapchat-addicted? Some think the San Francisco startup might have a diamond in the rough — the data it uses to figure out which stories are working for its readers and which aren’t....

Ferraris to Jaguars Purr on U.S. Roads With Fuel Boost From Asia

Edit Bloomberg 29 Jun 2016
Energy Information Administration data ... While this supply is fine to use in regular cars, it tends to burn prematurely in the more powerful motor of a Porsche or Ford Mustang, leading to what’s called a knock and potential damage ... Premium gasoline cost on average about 49 cents a gallon more than the regular variety on June 25 in the U.S., according to data from the American Automobile Association....

You Asked, We Answer: Top 5 Mobile Computer Matters (Xplore Technologies Corp)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jun 2016
What would you recommend to someone who does need to key a lot of data in the field - walking - monitoring devices? The touch screen keyboards leave a lot to be desired ... So any data entry that requires a keyboard can be done just as easily with a tablet PC as with a laptop PC ... So before we talk about the options you have to supplement the touch screen, we have to first consider the type of data you need to input into the application....

Unequal Voices (Advancement Project of California)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jun 2016
Using voter and civic engagement data collections from 2004 to 2014, we analyze data on voting in presidential, midterm, and local elections, data on voting by mail, as well as data on participation beyond the ballot box - contacting public officials, supporting political campaigns, attending political meetings, protesting, engaging in consumer activism, and discussing politics....

Snowden Blasts Russia's Proposed Anti-Terror Laws

Edit Topix 29 Jun 2016
Former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden has condemned a proposed set of new anti-terror laws in Russia which would require ISPs to store users' data for a year. The proposed laws would also require phone companies to store the contents of all calls and texts for six months, and metadata for three years ... ....

Oil price rises 2 percent on post-Brexit bargain hunting

Edit Arabnews 29 Jun 2016
Trade group The American Petroleum Institute was scheduled to issue a preliminary report on crude inventories, ahead of official stockpiles data from the US government on Wednesday ... Risk appetite also rebounded across financial markets on reduced fears of contagion from last week’s so-called Brexit ... Data showed oil production out of Nigeria, the ......

US tech giants face splintered digital future in EU

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 29 Jun 2016
Britain voted on Thursday to leave the European Union, fracturing what was slowly becoming a single digital market into potentially two — or possibly more — jurisdictions for issues ranging from data privacy, competition, tax and recruiting....

Can you hear them now? New buoy listens for singing whales

Edit WPTV 29 Jun 2016
MINEOLA, N.Y ...   ...   ...  . The devices will focus on obtaining data on the sounds of several species of baleen whales because they are endangered, said Dr ... The data will be transmitted back to scientists in near real-time, for analysis within about two hours, Rosenbaum said.   ...   ...   ... The buoy has been placed inside what is called the New York Bight, which features busy shipping lanes and lucrative fishing grounds ... ....

Google wants permission to track you more so that it can show you better ads

Edit Business Insider 29 Jun 2016
Google wants to expand the way that it uses your data for advertising, but it's asking you for permission first ... Previously, it has kept data like your search history or YouTube playlists separate from the personalization it provides when you're browsing websites and apps that use Google to serve ads ... of data on your account across every device....

Saudi Arabia's oil reserves could be the answer to higher oil prices

Edit Business Insider 29 Jun 2016
The U.S ... According to data from the Joint Organisations Data Initiative, and reported on by Bloomberg, Saudi oil inventories have declined for six consecutive months, the longest period of contraction since data collection began 15 years ago ... OilPrice.com ... But it cannot keep up that pace indefinitely ... “Crude stocks are coming off in places where either the data is opaque or the market isn’t paying as much attention.” ... Copyright 2016 ... ....
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