The latest attempt--a joint venture with Sony--produced a sleek model with a built-in camera and the ability to combine text, graphics, photos and audio clips, but Ericsson has lost market share.
As the first step towards the commercialization of its new CMOS image sensors, Sony has developed a model with built-in signal processing functionality, an element that usually requires external embedment.
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One of Les Mis's student revolutionaries, Gavroche, takes refuge in the massive Elephant of the Bastille, the model for a never-built statue that stood in Place de la Bastille in the first half of the 19th century. (For the film, it was recreated at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England.) Though the pachyderm is long gone, the July Column commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 now stands in its place.
Additionally, the DEV-50V model includes a built-in GPS receiver that automatically geo-tags video clips and photos.
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His most successful buildings were small ones, the jewel-like pavilions of the exquisite museum in the gardens at Washington's Dumbarton Oaks, and his own, iconic glass house in Connecticut built on the Miesien model, although Mies himself remarked how un-Miesian it was in its details.
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Children in Dorset have built a life-size model of Olympic 100m gold medallist Usain Bolt.
Sometimes, Jette said, soldiers wanted an 80-pound workhorse like a model built by Foster-Miller of Waltham, which was also tested in Afghanistan.
The miniature building began as a detailed 3-D software rendering before the physical model was built to iron out all the intricacies of connecting the units in the full-scale building.
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This simple, risk-averse model is built on market niche differentiation that has resulted in accretive dividend yield.
Xing Wang, the creator of Xiaonei which Renren acquired and built into its social networking house, is now running a GroupOn-type model in China, Meituan.
Samsung's Vacuum Tube Soundbar (model HW-F750) is the first soundbar to feature a built-in vacuum tube to maximize sound quality, and is the world's first soundbar that can wirelessly connect with a TV via Bluetooth.
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Two brand new versions of the car are being built at the BMW factory at Cowley in Oxfordshire - a standard Mini and a more sporty Mini Cooper model.
The new model Aibos seem more interested in taking pictures, which they do with a built-in camera.
It now seems very apparent that the Southern Cross business model was built on the basis of short-term vested interests: those of its owners in the mid-noughties, and maybe those of its directors since then.
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