Here's how it works: Utilities install GridPoint boxes in homes and businesses that essentially become nodes in a smart electric grid.
Mr Ackermann, a 53-year-old Swiss who joined the bank from Credit Suisse in 1996, has fought a smart campaign to become the undisputed boss.
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For practical purposes, the smart phone market has become a two horse race between Apple and Samsung.
The company has become a prominent player in the so-called smart grid market because its communication technologies help utilities collect and manage energy consumption data from customers quickly.
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Still, as Perkins tells it, the OT lawsuit was quickly settled, whereas analogous claims today drag on for years and have become a major constraint on whole industries, including smart phones, eReaders, and their newer relatives, the tablets.
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Dan is a smart but regular guy who has become an outstanding investor (and businessman) in his own right.
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Mr. Williams, the Capital Economics economist, said there is an outside chance that sales and prices could shoot up, as consumers become more convinced that real estate is once again a smart investment.
In the 1980s a trickle of smart students began to emerge once again from universities, and the trickle has since become a flood, providing an immense pool of talented Chinese, says Daniel Vasella, Novartis's chief executive.
Google is still a dream employer, especially for the hundreds of students in business schools throughout the U.S. But at 16, 800 employees worldwide--and growing--it's hard for every smart and ambitious new hire at Google to become a star.
Eventually algorithms will become smart enough o figure this out during the course of a trading day, but for now traders might need to intervene directly or adjust the algorithms.
It's Berlin, and I'm in a Smart car, DaimlerChrysler's tiny two-seater that has become a familiar sight in Europe's cramped city streets.
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However, the partners were smart enough to realize that that they needed more than winning awards to become a major agency.
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And with so many Christmas movies seeming repetitive in themes sometimes, this one is smart and unique, offering a worthwhile new animated Christmas tale that will surely become a classic and holiday favorite.
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For infrastructures to become truly smart, however, it is not enough to put more intelligence into the core of a network.
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The former Pimco emerging-market superstar also believed that the developing countries offered big profits to smart investors like HMC because they had become less risky thanks to ample dollar reserves and a growing middle class.
The public face of Goldman has been to repeat the mantra that the customer comes first, but those in the bonus pool or vying to become a managing director seemed to have mastered a completely different ethos: the cultural distinctions of shrewd, smart, aggressive and hard working more than the ethical distinctions of whether you would sell this product to your mother.
Computers have become remarkably useful but are still a far cry from the dream of early computer pioneers of a machine so smart it would be indistinguishable from a human.
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