And while that is good for the consumer, it tends to result in margin pressure across the supply chain as the vendor needs to trim costs in order to maintain their margins.
Boeing was chosen as the preferred vendor for the heavy-lift helicopter contract after its bid was found to be lowest of two competing companies.
In fact, it has steadily climbed the charts from being just an entrant in the edge routing business in 2003 to surpassing Juniper as the number 2 vendor in the industry last year.
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With the RF360, Qualcomm hopes to solve the problem and emerge as the go-to vendor for all the handset manufacturers that do not want to grapple with the logistical complexities of selling multiple variants of the same phone globally.
As the leading Android vendor, HTC has been growing at a prodigious rate for two years.
The result: Max Wang, at Digitimes pointed out Friday that if you factor in count tablet computers, it looks like Apple may be poised to replace Hewlett-Packard as the top notebook vendor.
The retailer even executes a transaction flagged off by the fraud detection vendor as possible fraud if the risk involved is small and the customer is loyal.
As the number one PC vendor in China, Lenovo's PC shipments are greater than that of the next top four vendors combined.
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Ironically, Fortune 100 buyers are just as frustrated with the state of their vendor relationships as sellers are.
Leighton started out in the 1960s as a Greenwich Village vendor of Mexican dresses, sandals and the occasional used trinket.
This information is rampant in the information security community, but not so much in the vendor community, as evidenced by your reference to the PC Magazine article.
Samsung, which surpassed Apple as the world's largest vendor of smartphones in early 2012, maintained its number one position for the year by shipping 213 million smartphones worldwide, according to Strategy Analytics.
Some big customers like Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden) loved Blodgett equipment, but hated the service and were close to dropping the company as a vendor.
However, smartphones are a growing space for the Chinese vendor as shipments grew from 3.7 million in 2011 to 23.7 million in 2012.
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That court overturned a previous ruling by Jackson that barred Microsoft from requiring PC makers licensing Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system to also take the software vendor's Internet Explorer Web browser as part of the license.
Samsung has already overtaken Apple as the world's largest smartphone vendor by market share.
This should yield costs savings in the relationship, as the engaging company goes above and beyond the normal partnership to benefit the vendor.
Since SanDisk is the flash memory leader for mobile phones, we expect it to be the preferred vendor for tablet memory as well.
Apple also became the world's top smartphone vendor, with a market share of 23.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, and the top smartphone vendor for 2011 as a whole, with a 19 percent market share.
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Apple raced past Research In Motion to become the second largest smartphone vendor in the first quarter, tech tracker IDC reported Friday, as the worldwide smartphone market grew 79.7% to 99.6 million units from 55.4 million units during the first quarter of 2010.
The balance between caveat emptor and caveat vendor would have to be slugged out in the courts, as is now happening with tobacco.
What if a money manager makes a secret payment to another vendor to the pension, such as an investment consultant?
The Furniture Village chain - which, as a vendor of big-ticket durable goods, is particularly sensitive to consumer frugality - reported almost a thousand transactions at its 40 stores by mid-afternoon on Boxing Day, putting it on course to beat the 1, 200 sales it closed on the same day in 2011.
But the legislation itself contemplates confusion, as it spells out when a merchant is liable for errors and when a software vendor takes the blame.
That means the Journal the FT as well as Amazon and Zinio, a vendor that helps publishers sell digital editions.
Einhorn, in his report, zeroed in on MBlock, the outside vendor that his witnesses said served as a warehouse for inventory Green Mountain could report as sold.
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That likely means that Forstall has a number of insights had by few in the industry, and that would make him a valuable asset as the smartphone and tablet wars escalate and eventually head toward vendor consolidation.
As a result, Apple became the third-largest mobile phone vendor in the world, overtaking LG.
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Even after the fraud detection third party vendor flags a transaction as fraudulent, every attempt should be made to ensure a wrong denial is not made.
The challenge, as Craig Brennan, former CEO of social analytics vendor Overtone (acquired by Kana), describes it is that customers want the answer not more data.
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