If you patent a widget in the U.S., you own that technology for 17 years.
Also in the corporate world, whether you are selling a widget or consulting, competitors will surprise you.
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Should a widget maker decide between Polish initial public offerings and the Nikkei?
And in the spirit of Web 2.0, you can even create a widget of your collection to embed in blogs or social networking site.
The idea behind it is pretty simple: Allow artists to deliver content straight to fans through a widget that bloggers can embed onto their respective sites.
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Consumers then view these company scores while they shop, by scanning product barcodes with their mobile phone camera or using a widget to view scores while browsing online.
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The CC app is a widget that you can access on any screen using your Adobe ID that ties together all of your activity and assests within the network.
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With the new service, a publisher can embed a widget that shows who you know that works at a particular company, who was recently hired, or who was recently promoted.
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Independent companies like Groupon could also have a widget.
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Official statistics simply do not capture the sideways move of old technologies into the digital world, for example when a widget maker starts upgrading its devices so that they can be hooked up to the internet.
Presumably, to obtain the design for a widget will be as easy as downloading a song (both legally or illegally) because the design is all software, a small file that a CAD program would handle, for example.
Cypriot labour costs rose 40% between 1995 and 2008, making it a relatively more expensive place to go on holiday or locate a widget factory, and the main reason why Cyprus has been collectively spending more than it earns.
However the nano could support not only a widget architecture for iPhones, but revitalize widget development for Dashboard, which seems to have languished since its debut in Tiger and has been somewhat sidelined as a Space in Lion.
Today, Telenav also launched the Scout Drive Button, a widget for anyone to add onto their website to provide visitors the ability to instantly launch voice-guided, turn by turn, GPS navigation to their store, restaurant, salon, dentist office, etc.
If I own a widget factory and half of my widget makers are only operating one shift a day and half of them are idle, I am not going to take out a loan to expand no matter how low the interest rates are.
At the same time, I watched as my fellow judges would grow impatient and even angry when there was a tech widget that was not powered by a good idea or a relevant story.
Sites like Xconomy recently added a Marginize widget that shows web chatter about its articles.
Up top, meanwhile, you'll notice a music widget which directs you to your stash of audio files.
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While non-profits may strive toward revitalizing the economy, entrepreneurs may have the passion to build a better widget.
Here is the Disney model in a Trefis widget, followed by Lacey's reasoning.
The Sonos Controller for Android features a new widget that allows you to control Sonos directly from your Android home screen.
Google ( GOOG - news - people ) India in October displayed a Saavn widget for every song or artist search.
Slide the home screen to the side, and you'll see a Facebook widget showing your news feed, with windows for Places, Notifications, People and birthdays.
In this regard, they are similar to other business that raise capital from investors and seek to generate profits from building and selling a better widget than their competitors.
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Plans were drafted to simplify and brighten Ebay's home page and add features to make the auction process more lively and competitive (for example, a software widget that would show bidders who they were up against).
However, as India and China continue to emerge, the abundance of engineering talent will mean that great companies will be defined not by their ability to develop a faster widget, but by their ability to innovate.
Not sure what a social widget is?
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For instance, S-Launcher is a desktop widget that replicates the now-extinct Start Menu, live search and all. eSettings, meanwhile, is a centralized options menu for folks who might not know where to find power management or display settings in Win 8.
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For those using Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, Google has also built a Keep widget, which can be placed on your Android homescreen, or on your phone or tablet's lock screen, which would enable users to add a reminder without even having to unlock their device.
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