Even if the system is not one big scam designed to enrich its shadowy creators, it can be hacked and can break like any technology.
Meet us after the break to see how the technology's grown up since we tried it out it a year ago, and then when you're done reading through our impressions, check out the walkthrough video at the end.
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Web technology was supposed to break down cubicle walls and make multinational companies seem as intimate as startups.
Perhaps we will see more technology companies getting that dream break they deserve.
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And to have a commitment to return the materials and the technology would help reduce the break-out potential that is inherent in the NPT today.
The issue, of course, is that while that may be true, the real potential for technology in education is to break us from the requirements of standardization.
We need break through creativity to go alongside breakthrough technology.
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And technology yielded the first major break: Police found photos and even a surveillance video of the two suspects toting backpacks -- each ostensibly loaded with a pressure-cooker bomb -- at the marathon's home stretch.
You'll find demonstrations of each technology in a video after the break.
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And, Capellas claims, technology and sales teams that can break apart the infrastructure so that customers can install parts from other suppliers if they want.
While Big Big Businesses are usually the most prestigious opportunities for any emerging technology, Big Data is attempting to break all the rules.
Instinctively it would seem that cloud computing technology would be a critical weapon to break down the line of business silos that exist in retail banks.
By adding cobalt and phosphates to water and passing a mild current through the solution with a glass electrode, Matthew Kanan and Daniel Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were able to break water apart and force oxygen to bubble to the surface.
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But when the ceremony started to be televised, the science and technology winners were handed their awards during the commercial break.
Similarly, nobody today would question a position in technology stocks, but it took Phil Fisher to break that ground in a painstaking, multi-decade way.
Technology and a tight labour market have done more to break down the walls of the corporation than any amount of protest.
Biggest break: When Texas Instruments decided in 1993 that it was better off licensing technology from arm than developing its own processors.
Anyone who supposes that technology, or the exacting use of modern materials, implies a break with the past should look at Foster's work--and learn.
This changed the world and had less to do with technology than it did with negotiating with the record labels to finally break with the old paradigm of albums and music stores.
The need to transform the business model will lead CMOs to break internal walls and collaborate closely with the chief information officer and the chief technology officer as data becomes the most important resource.
Since the previous sentence probably only made sense to about four of our readers out there, we'll break it down for you: EV-DO is the same 3G wireless technology being used by Verizon for the next-generation network they're currently building, and has average download speeds of around 500 Kbps.
Ball-breaker I was stunned to read in Kenneth L. Fisher's column of Apr. 3 (" Break Their Crystal Balls") that he had received hate mail for his March technology column.
Fundamental advances in LED semiconductor technology, optics, and lighting system design now enable LED lights to break century old cost and performance barriers that have prevented consumers from realizing the savings businesses and municipalities already enjoy.
Isaac Barchas, director of the technology incubator at the University of Texas at Austin, says entrepreneurs looking to break into an untested or emerging market should consider taking a wait-and-see approach.
In Europe the trucking industry has settled on a technology called selective catalytic reduction, in which urea is periodically injected into the exhaust system to break down the NOx, converting nitrogen oxides into (somewhat) harmless ammonia.
Because of the capital-intensive technology component and the highly-integrated carrier relationships, it seemed inconceivable that any other company could break into the handset wars.
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With no Christmas break, inspectors visited three more suspect sites on Thursday - and also interviewed an Iraqi scientist at Baghdad's Technology University on Thursday.
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