Microsoft is quite confident of its leadership status on the Netbook front, boasting earlier this year of 96 percent attach rate for Windows and making other, more recent claims of return rates on Linux netbooks that are "like four or five times higher" than their Windows equivalents.
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Strikingly, when reading the report, the parallels between this debacle and other corporate disasters of the recent and more distant past are stunningly clear.
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Now, with Stratos successfully complete, future space programs from NASA, the Air Force or any other agency has much fresher technology and a more recent collection of data to rely on.
He is wrong on all counts and, as with other false alarms about the hazards of genetic engineering sounded in recent years, there is both more and less to the Benbrook story than meets the eye.
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The relationship between impact speed and pedestrian risk of death has been studied previously, but earlier studies based on data from the United States are now several decades old, and more recent studies based on analysis of data from other countries have been limited to cars.
And productivity has increased in NHS England more than in the other two in recent years.
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In more recent times drug companies had other priorities, and women were left to fend for themselves.
Other key products to look out for are electronic noses and their more recent cousins, electronic tongues.
There is clear evidence that winter storms throughout southern Scandinavia were more frequent and intense during the multi-century Dark Ages Cold Period and the much more recent Little Ice Age than either now or other comparably warm periods.
While many open-source fans will be downloading a copy for the more recent Linux 3.2.29 kernel and other updated packages, ease of use is the guiding principle for the new build: there's now a graphical NetworkManager interface to manage wired and wireless connections, for a start.
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By contrast, two other recent telecom IPOs, Clearwire and Vonage, are pursuing far more ambitious plans--and burning serious amounts of money in the process.
And certainly the historic agreement on fuel efficiency standards that the President reached with a range of stakeholders and the auto industry will do more to accomplish that goal than any other recent policy announcement.
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In fact, Egypt in recent decades has been a far more open and liberal nation than other Arab nations.
Advances in computer graphics and video projection allowed Sunday night's illusion to be far more lifelike than other recent efforts.
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In more recent years, however, these people said Mr. Mandl and other directors have pressed Mr. Dell and other executives about company strategy.
The nation's delegation to the Davos forum still trails by far those from the U.S. and many other countries, but has grown in recent years as China has taken a more prominent place on the world stage.
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The same is true of China, which has a currency peg to the dollar and is thus fully exposed to the rising oil price, and has also, like many other developing countries, become much more reliant on oil in recent years as their economies have moved from agriculture to heavy manufacturing.
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The same is true of China, which has a currency peg to the dollar and is thus fully exposed to the rising oil price, and has also, like many other developing countries, become much more reliant on oil in recent years as its economy has moved from agriculture to heavy manufacturing.
In the mid-1990s, investors piled into Asian investments because recent returns there had been high and, more importantly, uncorrelated with other markets.
And, it may produce a campaign focused a bit more on policy than on birth certificates, service records and the other side issues of recent elections.
At the other end of the spectrum, more recent entrants into Asean such as Burma and Laos have restrictions on the ownership of computers and access to the Web.
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All game machines have suffered in recent years from the advent of smartphones and other mobile devices that have become more sophisticated and offer games and other forms of entertainment.
It has more international students on its books than any other American university, and, after the recent launch of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, one particularly notable foreign-born professor.
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And with the cash for clunkers program as well as other recent environmental initiatives, there could be more IPOs in the alternative energy area.
In recent years wildcat strikes, go-slows and other forms of worker protest have become more frequent.
In the U.S., more than half of female directors approve of gender quotas and other mandatory codes, according to a recent survey.
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The Monday Club, which was set up in the 1960s over the decolonisation of Africa and seen in more recent years as a bastion of the Tory hard right, also lobbies on other contentious issues such as capital punishment.
While Bartels has watched server makers like Sun Microsystems suffer from economic troubles since as early as the beginning of the year, (see "Sun Eclipsed By Poor Results--Again") he says that the recent and dramatic widening of the banking crisis means more pain is in store for other IT firms--including Cisco.
By contrast, some other indexes based on more recent data, such as that from the Federal Housing Finance Agency and private sources such as John Burns Real Estate Consulting, show a nascent recovery.
Looking at more recent research - not on chocolate, but a range of other foods - she and her fellow researchers conclude that there may be a link between diet and acne, although they don't know how strong it is.
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