The on-board technology assesses a variety of vehicle data during a journey, allowing tips to be passed on to drivers while they are at the wheel to help them reduce fuel consumption.
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With Apple on board, NFC technology could finally make the jump to becoming a mainstream way of paying for goods and services.
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And sure there have been successful non-technical leaders (take Lou Gerstner at IBM) who came on board at a technology company and achieved great things.
Other changes include a new job for Lynne Featherstone, the party's spokesman on youth issues, who will now also oversee the party's online campaigning as chair of its new technology board.
An initial successful feasibility study into the development of LaserSnake was funded by the Technology Strategy Board, and the new funding will help them to develop the technology to a full-scale demonstration phase.
The two-year research project is being funded by the Technology Strategy Board, a government agency set up to find innovative ways of using technology.
The grant was offered by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), a body set up by the government in 2007 to stimulate technology-enabled innovation.
The upcoming vote pits the newly reconstituted board and turnaround management team at Tessera, a technology development and licensing firm that invented chip-scale packaging (CSP) technology for improved semiconductor performance in the 1990s and is now blazing a trail in advanced semiconductor interconnect technology, against a board takeover attempt by the activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP.
One way takes a cue from social inspiration board Pinterest and mobile technology.
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"This is what I really enjoy about the design, " said Richard Miller, head of sustainability at the UK's government-funded Technology Strategy Board.
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Now since the 360 already ships with wireless technology on board, it would seem relatively simple to implement a cable-free controller for this particular deployment.
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One major effort here is made with the Technology Strategy Board, a body that endeavours to combine public and private finance to nurture new technologies.
The research was originally funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and is currently continuing under Technology Strategy Board funding, with Siemens as an industrial partner.
The government funded Tech City Investment Organization offers strategy, support and international connections to London and UK tech entrepreneurs, while the Technology Strategy Board hands out public money to worthy startups.
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But, even so, it will be comforting to know that, should something catastrophic happen to the human crew, there will be technology on board that will safely bring the airplane home.
The government's Technology Strategy Board (TSB), which is driving the Catapult concept, is already developing what is expected to be a series of spacecraft that will act as the demonstration platforms.
The zero emission taxis have been developed by a consortium, led by Intelligent Energy, which includes Lotus Engineering, London Taxis International and TRW Conekt with part-funding from the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board.
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The company, Larada Sciences, is headed by investor and entrepreneur Larry Rigby, who works with me on the board of the Utah Technology Council (UTC) (disclosure: this is not one of the companies in my own investment portfolio).
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This pivotal round of funding was led by Bo Axel Ax:son Johnson, a private investor whose company, Coding Technologies was sold to Dolby, and Nils-Robert Persson, executive chairman of the board for Cinnober Financial Technology, the Sweden-based provider of electronic trading platforms.
Coming from the UK and several other European countries, they are participants in the 2013 FinTech Innovation Lab London, a joint venture by Accenture, leading banks and venture capital firms with support from the Mayor of London, the City of London Corporation and the Technology Strategy Board.
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The extraordinarily good performance of the US economy in recent years has owed much to new technology, as Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan never tires of repeating - and to public confidence in that technology - hence the astonishing multiples at which many of the new tech companies still trade.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has chosen technology from Solarflare and Arista on 10 Gigabit Ethernet for high frequency trading across CBOE Holdings.
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Lavender, once the head of the Board of Trade's Technology Committee, relies on a computer only occasionally--to endorse a trade, not to make one.
Ericsson, Qualcomm and Alcatel-Lucent of manipulating a European standards board to keep its location technology out of the next generation of cellular phones.
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And, as a final straw, your golden-boy position has been usurped by an even more glamorous and meaningless seat at the board table: the chief technology officer.
Facebook managed to generate this positive news in an earnings quarter that has been tough on companies across the board, but particularly on technology companies like Google, Intel and IBM.
But then there's Amkor Technology, a circuit board tester and packager in West Chester, Pa.
Mitch Free is an entrepreneur, investor and board member with global experience in technology, manufacturing and aviation.
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The technology includes on-board radar and video cameras to monitor the road, the surroundings, and the driver.
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Meanwhile, the city Campaign Finance Board is looking to get the technology industry directly involved in the election process itself.
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