That entrepreneurial technologists focused on the consumer will solve the problem is very optimistic.
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That's great news for consumers but poses a problem for consumer electronics manufacturers that want to target an ultra-high-end niche.
The problem with consumer applications like this is people cheat, Bosworth says.
This is a problem in consumer-driven economies like we have in the West, as consumers put off major purchases due to their inability to qualify for credit.
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While other people testifying, such as privacy advocate Justin Brookman of the Center for Democracy and Technology, pointed out that this is a problem for consumer privacy, Weinstein just expressed jealousy.
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Still, he said: "There is a problem of consumer awareness in regard to what coverage they actually have, " adding that "most people don't read" the pages of disclosures in most policies.
Freed from the need to defend their currencies, and with consumer inflation a minor problem over the past 20 years, central banks could afford to let interest rates drift steadily lower.
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Rising consumer prices remain a problem back in China.
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The problem is that consumer protection laws vary from state to state.
Yes, you highlight your primary point of differentiation first, stressing how you can solve a specific problem for a consumer better than anyone else.
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Unemployment is still the number one problem for a consumer-based economy.
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So even if they splurged during Golden Week, most Japanese are still reluctant to open their purses, a problem given that consumer spending accounts for 60% of GDP.
Another problem, say consumer advocates, is that medical providers charge patients for the full cost of a procedure at the first visit even before multistage medical work is completed.
Meanwhile, the reform ignores the real anti-trust problem that is raising consumer prices, credit card interchange.
Some reports have found the tablet won't recharge while playing power-intensive games, but Consumer Reports' testing showed that problem also to be limited.
That and, to be fair, the problem of being both a consumer and enterprise company.
Mr Mayo, for one, thinks that consumer loans might be the next big problem for banks.
It was a basic structural problem where we became very consumer-oriented, very import-oriented.
For economic theories that see final demand as the driving force behind growth, recessions are simply a problem of a lack of consumer spending.
Given the discrepancy between Consumer Reports' explanation of the reception problem and the explanation provided by Apple in its July 2 letter to customers, I am concerned that the nearly two million purchasers of the iPhone 4 may not have complete information about the quality of the product they have purchased.
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One consumer website in particular has already cracked the problem of building easy-to-use collaboration tools with mass appeal.
An increasing amount of them, from simple consumer purchases to complex business needs, research their problem on Google.
One problem here is that the overall US consumer spending has actually been surprisingly strong in 2Q11 and 3Q11.
But the fundamental problem with the economy remains: consumer demand is weak.
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The problem is unless you know who the consumer is, and what their needs are you cannot fulfil them.
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Many corporate customers said they had not lost service, suggesting that the problem was with Blackberry's BIS consumer systems, rather than its BES enterprise systems.
If this will suffice, then no problem, but even RIM admits that consumer focus is changing and tending toward a second communications link via 3G or 4G as a stand-alone device.
This is a typical problem for companies without a firm eye on consumer behavior and experience.
Consumer Focus said mis-selling had been a persistent problem in the energy industry, and urged the regulator to tackle the issue "head on".
However, the main contributor to the deficit problem was a poorly designed policy that kept consumer rates low even as supply costs climbed, so the true costs were never passed on to the user.
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