Given its (relatively) bargain-basement price, we aren't sure how well Pioneer's latest nullifies ambient noise, but there's only one way to find out if they can give the best headset ever made a run for its money.
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Mobile phones have proven dynamite in other developing countries in providing banking services where no banks exist ( Kenya is a well-documented pioneer).
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Mr. Moosbrugger had the good fortune to have a long-standing relationship with Hermann Kaufmann, a carpenter's son from a nearby village who grew up to become a well-known pioneer of sustainable architecture.
More than 25 leading private equity and venture funds (the GIIRS Pioneer Funds), as well as over 200 of their portfolio companies in 29 countries around the world participated in the GIIRS world beta earlier this Spring.
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Citibank--then a lean company well run by banking pioneer Walter Wriston--found a way to get around those limits.
Mr Behlendorf was a pioneer in the development of the well-known Apache open-source web server, so his views come as little surprise.
In that, he may very well prove to be a pioneer of a cultural phenomenon that will help define the rest of this century.
After the launch of the IBM PC in 1981, UNESCO became a pioneer for supporting the development of advanced well documented software working in different languages and distributed free-of-charge (freeware) to its Member States.
However, although the sea ice is shrinking -- covering less total area as well as becoming thinner -- the Arctic is still a world ruled by ice, a lesson well learned when the Polar Pioneer encountered heavy pack ice between Svalbard and the eastern coast of Greenland, forcing the captain to divert the boat and drop speed to just a few knots.
To complete compatibility between these Pioneer products and iPhone 5, consumers must also obtain Apple's Lightning to USB Cable and Lightning to VGA Adapter, as well as a firmware update from Pioneer for select 2012 and 2013 multimedia DVD and navigation receivers (available this spring at no charge).
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There's another totem pole in Pioneer Square Park , carved by the Tlingit natives in 1938, as well as a bust of Chief Sealth of the Duwamish tribe, after whom Seattle is named.
"Mr. Hitto was a pioneer to raise funds to send direly needed humanitarian aid to Syrians, as well as raise awareness of the events happening in Syria, " the Shaam Relief Foundation said in a statement.
Mr. Soros was a pioneer of the modern hedge fund and is one of the world's most well-known investors.
In the case of Wendia, and perhaps in other cases as well, a seasoned executive from an industry giant may become the best pioneer for a new style of business.
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Working in close collaboration with gynecologist Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988, Dr. Edwards overcame entrenched political and religious hostility, as well as the disapproval of many other scientists at the time, to pioneer the basic techniques of human embryology that led to the birth of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, in 1978.
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La Follette was a pioneer in Sonoma pinots, does a lot of things differently in his viticulture, and is very well respected.
Besides Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Murakami, Rauschenberg and Prince, we included perennial bad boys Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, as well as other young talents such as figurative painter John Currin, British sculptor Rachel Whiteread and multimedia pioneer Matthew Barney.
Cellphone pioneer Motorola Mobility, a U.S. company now owned by Google, has stumbled through the transition as well, while Apple Inc. has become the world's third-largest maker of cellphones, less than six years after launching the first iPhone.
As Tata's sixth chairman in its 140-year history, he will try to make his mark on a firm that has been a consistent pioneer in Indian business, launching the country's first airline before it was nationalized as well as its first steel plant and the world's most inexpensive car.
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