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In September 2008, Reed Elsevier purchased data aggregator ChoicePoint. [12] This acquisition included an insurance business and the C.L.U.E. database, an underwriting database for the U.S. auto insurance market. LexisNexis completed the migration of public records to HPCC Systems the same year. Reed assumed $600 million in debt with the ...
A "data base communication call processing method" [2] patented by Roy P. Weber of Bell Labs, and implemented by AT&T in 1982, broke the link between individual telephone numbers and a specific trunk, city, or carrier. A toll-free number was merely an index into a large, distributed database; any number could be reassigned geographically ...
The role of these ships was for the training of pilots for carrier take-offs and landings in a safe area where the carriers would not be at risk of attack by hostile forces. [86] Together the Sable and Wolverine trained 17,820 pilots in 116,000 carrier landings. Of these, 51,000 landings were on Sable.
The International Registration Plan (IRP) is a truck registration reciprocity agreement between the contiguous United States and Canadian provinces that provides apportioned payments of registration fees, based on the total distance operated in participating jurisdictions, to them. IRP's fundamental principle is to promote and encourage use of ...
This is a list of mobile network operators (MNOs) in the United States. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), lists approximately 30 facilities-based wireless service providers in the United States as members.
Local number portability (LNP) for fixed lines, and full mobile number portability (FMNP) for mobile phone lines, refers to the ability of a "customer of record" of an existing fixed-line or mobile telephone number assigned by a local exchange carrier (LEC) to reassign the number to another carrier ("service provider portability"), move it to another location ("geographic portability"), or ...
Established as Saratoga Air Group on 1 July 1938, still active. See CVW-3 in the "Current Carrier Air Wings" section. CVG-4(1st) Established as Ranger Air Group on 1 July 1938, still active. See CVW-1 in the "Current Carrier Air Wings" section. CVG-5(1st) Established on 1 Jan 1943, still active. See CVW-5 in the "Current Carrier Air Wings" section.
Derek V. Smith was the CEO of ChoicePoint from 1997 until its acquisition by Reed Elsevier.Previously, Smith was an executive for Equifax.He holds degrees from Penn State and Georgia Tech.