Under the plans, each home would get a new smart gas meter and a new electricity meter.
While the hardware has remained mostly unchanged, the company's gone to town on the camera app, moving beyond the Windows Phone Lens system to craft a new Smart Cam interface.
They borrow much more money than they lay out to buy homes and autos, which leverages the importance of that spending compared to buying a new pair of jeans or a new smart-phone.
This week, for example, No. 3 wireless carrier Sprint Nextel unveiled a new smart phone called the Sprint Mogul, which sports features similar to the iPhone: a large touchscreen display, wireless e-mail, a digital camera, wi-fi hotspot access and music and video playback functions.
The brand is also gifting Acetrax Movie credit to customers who buy a new 2012 Smart TV, offering the ultimate family entertainment this Christmas.
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He kept the media guessing about a new tablet computer and a smart phone for years.
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Also expect to see a slew of new smart phones, including an absolute deluge of new Android models.
His next task is to tailor Priceline's technology to a new generation of smart phones and other mobile devices.
Consumers are ready for a new age of smart products to close this gap between the physical and digital worlds.
Now that Amble has a smart new purifying works, the gulls no longer circle over the end of the underwater sewage pipe.
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If migrants are not satisfied by that, they have choices: what meets their eye as they leave mass is a smart new Pentecostal church, with worship in Portuguese as well as English.
Babak Zanjani has more money in the bank than the entire GDP of this tiny former Soviet republic, but in the past few years he has been investing in businesses here, and today he is in town for the inauguration of his latest venture - a smart new transport hub for the capital, Dushanbe.
Recent rumours have suggested Apple is working on a new television set, a wearable "smart watch" device, and both cheaper and larger-screened iPhones.
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW) is among an alliance of groups aiming to influence a government's plan for a 'smart grid' and a new national planning policy on the future of the nation's electricity transmission network.
It's never easy to start a new job search, but with a smart approach, it can be much more successful.
WordLogic is far from being a new comer in the smart typing business.
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Welcome to a complicated new world of smart, well-funded entrepreneurs doing what smart capitalists have always done: ferreting out an underserved market and serving it.
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Also new is a smart card API, which will let computer manufacturers add card readers to these handhelds, effectively locking up any data they hold if the devices are lost or stolen.
Much of India's call-centre industry, which employs roughly 300, 000 agents, is located outside the ring road that encircles Bangalore, in a string of smart new business parks with tidy lawns and private security.
Creating a new form of artist-based radio, the Smart DJ feature is a quick and dynamic way to personalize your collection, discover new favorites and create ultimate playlists by launching instant mixes based on your favorite artists.
The new Smart ad shows a giant SUV, which appears to be perched on top of a Smart car.
The new operating system follows a smart move in January to ditch the older, problematic Wintel legacy and focus on new versions of Windows for the System on a Chip (SoC) architecture, many times more suitable for tablet devices, according to Sandeep Aggarwal at Caris.
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All told, there's a small deluge of new features that could amount to a lot, even excluding new hands-free elements like Smart Scroll.
Now, there is hope in the form of a new mantra: Simple is Smart.
If anyone can move textbooks into a new realm with interactive, smart gestures, it's Apple.
Mitsubishi will help to build a new, four-seater Smart beginning in 2004.
But this year there's something else - just about every new set is a smart TV, designed to be connected to the internet.
The new map is a smart byproduct of the European Space Agency (Esa) telescope's main mission which is to survey the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB - a pervasive but faint glow of long-wavelength radiation that comes to us from the very edge of the observable Universe.
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In behavioral terms what I did was let this consulting firm evaluate a guy they deemed to be smart-but-rude from a new angle.
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