And though foreign observers dismiss them as mindless entertainment for children or the uneducated, Natume says they can be as sophisticated a medium as film or literature.
While the Democratic Party continues to utilize sophisticated analytics and targeting strategies and leverage digital in as sophisticated a way as any great CPG company does, the Republicans seem to be living in an analog world, dependent upon telemarketing and the U.S. Postal Service.
In the end, the value of the cloud can only be realized if a sophisticated understanding of the costs and capabilities of the cloud and married to a sophisticated understanding of the way the processes can and should create value.
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Therefore, resources tend to be managed at the executive level, often through a sophisticated hierarchy and a well-developed information system.
His deceptively simple style is a sophisticated synthesis, a reconciliation of the monumental and the popular, of the general and the particular, of the real and the mythic, of nature and art.
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But the apps that have turned the iPhone into a more useful tool -- be it as simple as a flashlight or as sophisticated as a language translator -- have been relatively rare.
Used in a room with elephant gray and even a bit of acid yellow, you get a palette that is sophisticated, a little Barbar, bonnie and bright without any superheroes, princesses or Disney characters (those will be brought in by the tenants themselves, no doubt).
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As a sophisticated player in a technology infrastructure company, he realizes that the number of companies that will buy Hadoop and run it as a general purpose infrastructure is much smaller than the number companies who will buy it to run applications for specific purposes.
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It is, therefore, as Soviet Communists like Vladimir Putin used to say, "no coincidence, comrade" that the proposal on missile defense that he rolled out at last week's G-8 meeting was a sophisticated gambit, a crafty effort not to advance the protection of Europe and the United States from future Iranian missiles, but to block such anti-missile defenses.
Which raises a broader question: Is Mr. Silbert creating a market open only to the sophisticated, a club that shuts out ordinary Americans?
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In other words, this is a sophisticated operation to get a unifying army stood up.
At a more sophisticated level, a manufacturing job shop I consulted for had a cost estimate per job, but it included lots of overhead allocations.
Hours after the announcement, police closed 59 offices of DMG Grupo Holding, which evolved from a simple pyramid into a sophisticated investment scheme with a claimed 200, 000 clients.
Last year, Libyan opposition forces trying to overthrow the dictator Moammar Gadhafi bought a sophisticated surveillance drone from a Canadian company for which they paid in the low six figures.
In that moment, they defined their current place in music a more sophisticated sound, a more mature outlook on their music, and an ability to look beyond the past when deciding their future.
And one of the reasons I appreciate the Prime Minister is that he, on the one hand, sees that it's a sophisticated operation to get a military up from zero, but on the other hand, is frustrated by the pace.
Investigators have long believed the suspect possessed a sophisticated knowledge of anthrax and a high level of training.
As part of a revamped business plan, the paper developed the Media Lab, a sophisticated digital agency that provides a full range of online marketing services to merchants.
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Such a sophisticated and lethal operation makes a mockery of the idea of "disengagement, " based upon the notion that good fences will make, if not good neighbors, at least ones with which Israel can live.
Today, the TV you watch and interact with is a sophisticated ecosystem made up of a melange of technology including middleware, meta data, content discovery and content rights management technology that converges in your set top box, which in itself is a smarter piece of hardware than your TV.
"People are very sophisticated in a way which they weren't in the 1950s, " Mr Duffy said.
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The moment when you finally reach the peak and look out at the valley below is sophisticated without a single word.
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The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency accused Armstrong in October of involvement in a sophisticated doping program while he was a professional cyclist.
Beautiful, exquisitely sophisticated, a blast for passengers, but not real driver's cars.
Instead of taking years to build carriers and subs, the Chinese are keen on constructing a sophisticated missile force that could pack a punch tomorrow.
When Anderson joined this combined entity, it was his first role as CIO, but the moves that he made were as sophisticated as a seasoned veteran.
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To believe this, you have to believe that the Bushies were both wicked enough to murder thousands of Americans and brilliant enough to execute such a mind-bogglingly sophisticated plot without a single leak in a culture where Richard Nixon could not even hush up a burglary.
Iran is a vast, populous and sophisticated country with a nuclear programme that began under the shah.
Even the smallest independent bookstore will have access to a sophisticated electronic-book sales service with a vast selection of titles.
The Rolls-Royce Ghost rides on a sophisticated double wishbone suspension up front with a multi-link array at the rear and automatic damping height-adjustable shock absorbers at all four corners.
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