The complexities of large cities present a myriad of challenges as much as developing the car and technology itself, but there have already been early discussions with Singapore and Hong Kong to test drive the cars and system on a small scale.
If we do not put a secure network around our intellectual property, it will be as if we are developing ground breaking technology as a public service to the world.
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He later started developing the technology as a graduate student at MIT.
Philips is developing the technology as a contactless system to keep a virtual eye on hospital patients, such as newborn babies, who might find conventional monitors distressing.
Increasingly, social networks around cell phone technology will be more useful for much of the developing world, as well as many developed countries, where mobile technology is streaks ahead of wired internet.
Nearly all of the world's carmakers are also developing fuel cells, but no one has as much riding on the technology as GM.
"The truly disconnected corners of the globe are shrinking, and shrinking rapidly, " says Ethan Zuckerman, who studies technology use in the developing world as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
The government has established state-owned enterprise zones such as the Chengdu Internet of Things Technology Institute in Sichuan province, which is developing a health care system in which rural villagers can step into a telephone booth-sized "health capsule" to get a diagnosis and prescription from a doctor in a distant hospital.
It also comes as Yahoo in the U.S. has stopped developing its own search technology and adopted Microsoft's Bing.
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Twitter is also considering placing its Promoted Tweets in the main timeline of Tweets, FT Technology recently said, as well as developing offers similar to Groupon and new tools that would allow advertisers to pre-schedule posts.
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We also noted that in recent years, partnerships between Portuguese and American universities are developing state of the art research in areas such as engineering, information technology, and medicine, and we committed to fostering these relationships in the future.
British industry lost its focus on developing the latest technology, thus solidifying the country's status as a declining world power.
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The Isle of Man is the headquarters for 12 space firms which are involved in work such as developing space tourism technology and satellite communications.
The South Korean capital city, awash in economic exuberance, is developing as a design, fashion and technology centre, and is breaking out as a key business hub.
Nearly all of the world's carmakers are also developing fuel cells (see Prototype Proliferation), but no one has as much riding on the technology as GM.
Ahead of CES, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) hand-picked Immerz as one of only eleven i-stage finalists in an annual competition that awards companies developing the most innovative new consumer technology products coming to market.
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