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  2. B Corporation (certification) - Wikipedia

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    B Lab certification is a third-party standard requiring companies to meet social sustainability and environmental performance standards, meet accountability standards, and be transparent to the public according to the score they receive on the assessment. B Lab certification applies to the whole company across all product lines and issue areas.

  3. Beacon frame - Wikipedia

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    A beacon frame is a type of management frame in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. It contains information about the network. Beacon frames are transmitted periodically; they serve to announce the presence of a wireless LAN and to provide a timing signal to synchronise communications with the devices using the network (the members of a service set). In an ...

  4. State Street Corporation - Wikipedia

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    State Street Corporation. State Street Corporation (stylized in all caps), is an American global [2] financial services and bank holding company headquartered at One Congress Street in Boston with operations worldwide. It is the second-oldest continually operating United States bank; its predecessor, Union Bank, was founded in 1792.

  5. Types of beacons - Wikipedia

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    The three frametypes are: Beacon protocol - Google's Eddystone. URL: a URL (i.e. a website link) is transmitted to the device, eliminating the need for an installed Mobile App. UID (similar to Apple's UUID): a 16 digit string of characters, which can identify the individual beacon. This UID can activate an installed Mobile App.

  6. International Cospas-Sarsat Programme - Wikipedia

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    The International Cospas-Sarsat Programme is a satellite -aided search and rescue (SAR) initiative. It is organized as a treaty -based, nonprofit, intergovernmental, humanitarian cooperative of 45 nations and agencies (see infobox). [2] It is dedicated to detecting and locating emergency locator radio beacons activated by persons, aircraft or ...

  7. International Beacon Project - Wikipedia

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    The International Beacon Project (IBP) is a worldwide network of radio propagation beacons. It consists of 18 continuous wave (CW) beacons operating on five designated frequencies in the high frequency band. [1][2] The IBP beacons provide a means of assessing the prevailing ionospheric signal propagation characteristics to both amateur and ...

  8. Beacon, the Gymnastics Therapy Dog, Shows 'No Sign of ... - AOL

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    Beacon is doing much better!. The golden retriever therapy dog, who won hearts over after offering support to anyone who needed it at the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials earlier this year, was ...

  9. Bluetooth Low Energy beacon - Wikipedia

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    Bluetooth Low Energy beacon. Bluetooth beacons are hardware transmitters — a class of Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) devices that broadcast their identifier to nearby portable electronic devices. The technology enables smartphones, tablets and other devices to perform actions when in close proximity to a beacon.