"The programme is based on ability - it's not age-based, " said communications manager Charlotte Church.
Eventually, says Mr Burt, the ability of dye-based cells to produce useful quantities of power even in dim and diffuse light could see them used outside, perhaps on rooftops in cloudier parts of the world a market at present dominated by traditional, silicon-based cells, even though they are not well-suited to the purpose.
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Perhaps the most novel non-gaming function of the tablet-esque controller is its IR-based universal remote control ability -- the GamePad can be used to control your HDTV (well, "most" HDTVs) in some basic, but very important, ways.
With the ability to blend location-based data and online apps, augmented reality will offer entirely new experiences for users and create new opportunities for developers.
The primary driving forces behind this mobile payment initiative by Starbucks is its ability for the Seattle-based coffee giant to not just to reduce the cost to process purchases, but according to Brotman, create a better experience for the customer.
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In many cases they are using the technology to accelerate their ability to get to cloud-based infrastructure.
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This is not just about the marginally useful ability to check in on location-based social networks such as foursquare or to address the always addressable consumer.
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The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act created broad-based changes to how creditors make loans including new ability-to-repay standards, which we are charged with implementing.
With its stock on a tear and a track record of continually proving the marketplace wrong with its ability to adapt, the California-based company has set and achieved a string of lofty goals.
In the case of the home buyer tax credit and the business tax provision, Senate Democrats want to delay until 2018 the ability of U.S.-based companies with operations abroad to take advantage of foreign tax credits.
The individual market for health care insurance is historically underdeveloped compared to the employer-sponsored market due to high costs, individual underwriting, and the ability of insurers to deny applicants based on pre-existing conditions.
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Sea-based missile defense is vital to our overall ability to defend ourselves, but it is not a substitute for the land-based system which is designed to provide defense against longer range ballistic missiles.
Your ability to break a big story, doggedly follow a tip or score a career-making interview should be based on grit, determination, a can-do attitude and a killer ability to craft a lede.
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The outcome of the report is set to raise further questions about both the future of G4S Chief Executive Nick Buckles and the ability of the U.K.-based company to secure future lucrative outsourcing contracts.
This ability to envision new combinations of cloud-based solutions and create new ways of performing end-to-end processes presents companies with new opportunities to be innovative in new-product development as well as in service and support.
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In this process, applications for re-permitting of exploratory deepwater wells will be examined and reviewed, and permits issued based on their ability to meet the requirements of a worst-case scenario.
Such people could then hopefully be given preventive treatment - perhaps even based on the ability of the painkillers to dissolve the plaques.
He sees a big future for what he called "virtual close" -- the ability of companies to assess their own financial health on a daily basis using Web-based applications.
Additionally, the new line-up of Opteron chips based on the Bulldozer micro-architecture further strengthens AMD?s ability to offer greater choices to a data-starved base of enterprises and growing cloud customers.
Nothing is more important to the digital future of publishers than the ability to sell subscriptions to iPad- and iPhone-based editions of their periodicals.
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The route should give Armstrong's rivals hope, as the Texan's stranglehold on the event has been based on his time-trialling ability and increasingly dominant performances in the mountains.
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The group, made up of teachers, academics and librarians, says what works in the classroom "is a more comprehensive, integrated and flexible approach", where children can read texts that interest them - not just those based on developing ability in phonics.
This will depend on such technologies as space-based surveillance, direct broadcasting, high-speed computers and, above all, the ability to integrate complex information systems.
It will then soar past it because of the continuing acceleration of information-based technologies, as well as the ability of machines to instantly share their knowledge.
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While the company mostly limits its purchases to the West Coast, near its California-based facility, it has secured some ability to serve other parts of the country.
Netflix is increasingly billing itself as a data company, with a numbers so solid that it can afford to make huge gambles on original programming (House of Cards and Arrested Development, anybody?) based on an almost psychic-like ability to know what its users like.
If operated from a single site (perhaps in Grand Forks, North Dakota) in conjunction with one or more new, ground-based radars and other, existing early-warning radar systems, these weapons would have the ability to provide some protection to most of the continental United States.
The issue of climate change is something that we are working diligently on and everybody has a huge interest in this, no place more so than Alaska where the effects are already beginning to be felt and it's starting to change I think the ability of native peoples to -- whose economies oftentimes may be based on interacting with the natural environment there.
"I really have doubts about his ability, " says Mely Cabalero-Anthony, a Kuala Lumpur-based specialist in Southeast Asian affairs.
But location-based services that use the mobile phone's ability to signal its exact whereabouts (within about 50 metres) will proliferate.
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