Interestingly, Telecom's ultimate plan is still to migrate to LTE -- but considering its rather massive footprint and subscriber count, there's method in the madness of supporting an interim ultra high-speed standard like Rev.
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Like inexorable improvements in microprocessor speed, standard expectations and trajectories are set by the mere selection of metrics.
For those who have stuck it out with EA Maxis, the publisher is giving you until March 25 to register your SimCity game and until March 30 to download any of these digital games: Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition), Bejeweled 3, Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition), Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition), Medal of Honor Warfighter (Standard Edition), Need For Speed Most Wanted (Standard Edition), Plants vs.
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Veterans describe a repetitive strain condition as "Rubik's thumb, " developed from trying to speed-solve standard-issue cubes.
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But the offerings were, almost without exception, rather grim, and few promised a life at anything near standard speed.
Applied Micro Technology uses the vertical blanking interval to allow Internet data to piggyback on a television broadcast at up to five times the speed of a standard modem and telephone line.
As carriers around the world transition to the higher-speed 4G LTE standard, they are doing so on the back of about 40 different LTE bands that are based on a variety of spectrum frequencies.
Think of it this way: if we took one-thousandth of a second of footage from the femto camera video output and slowed it down to the speed of 30 seconds per frame -- the approximate speed of a standard TV broadcast -- it would take us a lifetime to watch.
Some companies may simply roll out upgraded products optimized for 802.11n, a high-speed wi-fi standard that's four to five times faster than the current technology.
Ghai notes that he has been cautious on the provider of enterprise wireless networking gear ahead of an expected upgrade cycle in expectations that a shift to the higher speed 802.11ac standard could cause a pause in the market.
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Behind the handsome, purposeful grille is Mercedes's evolved OM642 diesel V6 (72-degree bank, 48-degree crankpin offset, with center counterbalance shaft), connected to the GL's standard seven-speed automatic transmission.
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But mated with the standard 5-speed automatic transmission (only the base LX is available with a 5-speed manual) in a vehicle that weighs just 2, 855 lbs, performance is acceptable.
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Dai and the Sutardjas next went after networking products, designing a chip that would transmit data through Ethernet ports at a billion bits per second, ten times the speed of the then current standard.
In addition to security and speed, SWIFT offers a standard interface to reach pretty much any bank in the world with a standard message format to provide completely automated processing of payments, straight-through processing (STP) in industry terminology.
The G standard has a faster maximum data transmission speed--54 megabits per second--than the B standard, which topped out at 10 MB per second.
At the same time, Elop implied that he was holding Nokia employees to a higher standard, particularly regarding speed to market, which Nokia has been criticized for in recent years.
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Financial history is littered with events that turned from the unthinkable to the inevitable with breathtaking speed: Britain left the gold standard in 1931, Argentina abandoned its dollar peg in January 2002.
The UK government has said it wants to deliver the best superfast broadband network in Europe by 2015, with 90% cent of the UK receiving superfast broadband and everyone else to have access to standard broadband with a speed of at least 2Mbps.
In a 2011 article for the scholarly journal Science, researchers Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez estimated that the entire processing power of the world's stock of general-purpose computers in 2007 more or less equaled that of one human brain (about 6.4 quintillion instructions per second -- the standard measure of computer speed).
The g standard speeds up the connection considerably to 54 megabits per second from 11 MBPS, the top speed of existing Wi-Fi networks that use the 802.11b standard.
Rosenberg claims that users of their prototype "FEELit" mouse experience an 88% speed increase over a stock mouse on a standard productivity test.
Gulfstream has recently introduced a new top-of-the-line 650 model that can fly 8, 000 miles without refueling at near-supersonic speed, reinforcing its reputation as the gold standard in business jets.
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These include metric to standard conversions, fuel consumption, air speed and distance calculations, and more.
The faster speed is making PC cards that support the G standard a popular add-on device for notebooks, and Netgear is among those offering them.
But it's backward-compatible with the B standard, meaning that a router or other access point that uses the G standard can also support a notebook outfitted for the B standard, but only at the slower speed.
The standard will boost wireless networks to wired network speed, he notes.
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Models configured with an ultra-fast SSD flash drive give you ultra-speed access to files around ten times faster than a standard hard disk drive.
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The Veloster a three-door (one on the left, two on the right) hatchback with a direct-injection 1.6-liter and choice of six-speed manual or dual-clutch automatic comes standard with 17-inch alloy wheels, four-wheel disc brakes, LED headlight accents, Bluetooth, XM satellite radio, a 7-inch color touch screen with a Pandora app (that syncs up to your iPhone), and more.
Clearwire is looking to build a high-speed voice and data service based on next-generation wireless standard WiMax.
Mr Shaeuble suggested the recent downgrade of Italy's credit rating by Standard and Poor's may encourage it to speed up its own austerity measures to reassure markets.
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