After two decades of development and trial marketing, Wills is nearly ready for a full launch.
After decades of development, a standard phone gives users access to 2, 500 services, from 911 service to call forwarding.
Traditional IT folks however, steeped in decades of development models where user design never even made the list of requirements, are struggling with the multitude of customer experience touch points.
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If the BRICs remain poised for decades of economic development, their recent stock-market slide should make them more appealing for long-term investors.
To combat the wealthy behemoths in the American League East, Billy Beane defied decades of player development strategies and the wisdom of seasoned scouts by allowing an assistant general manager with a Harvard degree in economics to enter into the inner sanctum of the draft room of the Oakland Athletics with a laptop.
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If we were to succeed in leveraging mobile technology to leapfrog decades of traditional infrastructure development in just a few years, Afghans would need the capacity to take on significant leadership roles.
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Based on its decades of experience in growth and development, Samsung will also provide its technical expertise and know-how for developing materials on ESD.
And so the Strategic Partnership Agreement, this NATO Summit, are all part and parcel of a shared vision that we have in which Afghanistan is able to transition from decades of war to a transformational decade of peace and stability and development.
As well as a compelling portrait of an often obnoxious genius, he gives us a lively history of the development of consumer technology over the last three decades in which two very different philosophies, open and closed, battle for supremacy in a contest which is still undecided.
Complete with four satellite speakers and a dedicated center channel speaker, the Quintet is a complete 5.1 home theater system that utilizes decades of Klipsch's research and development experience.
The trouble with competing with Apple, aside from the supply chain mountain to surmount, is that the smarts and guts of the iPad have been in development (loosely) for a couple of decades (going back to the graphical features of Objective C developed at NeXT).
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But the focus of much foreign aid, especially in the past two decades, has been aid for the purpose of advancing economic development.
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Over the past five decades it has led to the development of the Internet, lasers, global positioning satellites, magnetic resonance imaging, DNA sequencing, and hundreds of other technologies.
That, he says, is the lesson of the development of Europe's capital markets over the past three decades, specifically the vast Eurobond market, where European banks such as Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Paribas all played a big part.
These 400 or so pages document the development, over seven decades, of a great mind.
China's rise over the past two decades has been more impressive than any burst of economic development ever.
The China economic miracle of the last two decades has put emphasis on economic development and urbanization.
The World Bank estimates that as much as 30% of Indonesia's development budget over two decades disappeared through civil-service-wide corruption that filtered down from the top.
"For decades, we have heavily invested in pioneering the development of technological innovations in the mobile industry, which have been constantly reflected in our products, " a spokeswoman said.
But a clutch of Western development officials I've been talking to all acknowledge that the "Madonna Incident" points towards a more general shift - already in progress - away from the top-down aid of past decades and towards a new focus on policy development, partnership and business.
Elements of this virtual model have been in development for decades, but in most cases the results have been somewhat primitive.
Several decades of international programmes have shown that there is not a single development model that is applicable to all countries and to all cultures.
Now that their populations are booming, thanks to the economic draw of oil and gas development, their innovative solutions from decades past are now reaching the breaking point.
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The giants are starved for new blockbusters--last year had the fewest new drug approvals in two decades--and one-third or so of new products in development are protein drugs.
The small surf town of Cayucos has remained miraculously immune to over-development for decades, despite its great wines to the east and white sandy beaches to the west.
Michael Saynor, who has worked in the market for 45 years and run his own business there for two decades, said it was vital stallholders were involved in the planning of any development.
Four decades after its establishment, SERVOL continues to implement a number of community-based development and educational projects primarily because the socio-economic problems that led to its formation, such as poverty, sharp socio-economic inequalities, youth criminality or gang violence and drug abuse as well as the disintegration of family structures, high illiteracy rates among and lack of livelihood and educational opportunities for the poor majority, remain prevalent in the country today.
Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are global leaders in the design and development of radar, tracing their experience with the technology back many decades.
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During the last two decades, Nokia has invested approximately EUR 43 billion in research and development and built one of the wireless industry's strongest and broadest IPR portfolios, with over 10, 000 patent families.
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