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Data unification in personal information management

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Users need ways to unify, simplify, and consolidate information too often fragmented by location, device, and software application.

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                cover image Communications of the ACM
                Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 1
                Personal information management
                January 2006
                123 pages
                ISSN:0001-0782
                EISSN:1557-7317
                DOI:10.1145/1107458
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